Passing a set of historic reform bills last week, the Louisiana legislature handed Gov. Bobby Jindal and his new education chief, John White, the keys to reform city.
Schools everywhere: Steal these ideas!
The mainstream resistance to school choice is increasingly characterizing the education reform debate as students versus profits.
The Evergreen Education Group gives us more evidence that districts may be unwilling to give up their authority over online learning easily.
As bold as Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson's plan is, even more audacious is the political coalition that seems to be coalescing around it.
Governor Bobby Jindal’s school voucher proposal for Louisiana has been dragged into the familiar politics of parental choice.
The Left likes choice—just not too much choice
Guest blogger John Kirtley, chairman of Step Up for Students, answers Board's Eye View's BIG question: "What's the most important governance issue?"
It's not A Nation At Risk, but today's Council on Foreign Relations report on US education reform and national security makes bold statements on our progress toward higher educational standards and enhanced school choice.
Projections show that charter schools may grow to educate nearly half of D.C. public school students, but that milestone means they'll have to stop resorting to the expulsion of troubled students so quickly.
Congratulations to KIPP: Journey Academy for the school’s EPIC Silver Gain Award from New Leaders for New Schools.
The Richard Allen Academy Schools Audit highlights, yet again, the need for Ohio statute to clarify the roles and duties of school governing boards, school operators, and school sponsors (aka authorizers).
If Florida Governor Rick Scott signs the state’s digital learning bill, as expected, students in grades K-5 then could bypass a brick-and-mortar school and directly enroll full-time in a virtual instruction program.
Choice Words has developed some legislative guidance for more informative inquiry on the parent trigger.
Congratulations to KIPP: Journey Academy on winning the EPIC Silver Gain Award!
Florida's McKay Scholarships for Students with Disabilities program should reestablish its status as a pioneer by embracing a reasonable form of results-based accountability
School leaders need help from policymakers to improve the availability of affordable space for teaching and learning, and to plug schools into revitalized neighborhoods.
A social sector solution to the "capacity" conundrum
Fordham has worked in Dayton – as a funder, charter-school authorizer, and charter-school advocate – to push for the creation and growth of high quality charter schools since 1998.
By limiting debate on a polarizing parent trigger bill, the Florida Legislature is only going to sow the same confusion that has frustrated Californians.
It’s almost become flippant for Democratic lawmakers to disparage a school voucher as “a war on public education,” but a look at the numbers shows the conflict is pretty one-sided.
The rejection of the White Hat applications will come as a surprise to many observers because ODE has rarely challenged large, not to mention politically well-connected, operators.
Regardless of rankings, Ohio policymakers should continue to seek improvements to Ohio’s charter school program.
A learning specialist with Noble Charter Schools responds to criticism of the organization's controversial discipline policies.
