Indiana's expansive voucher bill heads to governor's desk
From the Evansville Courier & Press: INDIANAPOLIS — Two key planks of Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels’ education reform platform cleared...
Read More >The biggest big-city superintendents push charters
The new chiefs of the nation's three biggest school districts have shown in recent days what they all have in...
Read More >Black, Hispanic legislators urge caution in expanding Milwaukee voucher
Members of the Wisconsin Legislature's Black and Latino Caucus wrote Gov. Scott Walker and legislative leaders recently expressing concern that...
Read More >Another voice for a parents union
This week, RiShawn Biddle's Dropout Nation features a plea from Gwen Samuel, the president of the Connecticut Parents Union, for...
Read More >The new face(s) of public education
The Patriot-News, Pennsylvania's main capital-area newspaper, recently profiled a family that has enrolled its four children in a combination of private,...
Read More >Of choice, and quality choices
Much of our podcast this week with Howard Fuller explored statements Fuller made recently admonishing Wisconsin's governor and legislature for plans...
Read More >Indiana Senate passes voucher bill
From The Associated Press: The Indiana Senate has approved a plan to create the nation's most expansive school voucher program....
Read More >Emanuel's pick for Chicago schools CEO: Competition keeps our systems agile and responsive
When he led New York's Rochester City School District, Jean-Claude Brizard received a vote of no-confidence from the teachers union. Not...
Read More >Two thoughts on the failure of our discourse
Dropout Nation's RiShawn Biddle on anti-intellectualism in our debate over education reform: For all the taxpayer-funded doctorates and graduate degrees...
Read More >Heckler to reporter: Drop Dead
An activist becomes unhinged at a Washington Times reporter, who challenges D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray during a press conference in which Gray...
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