N.C. district moves to parental choice
The Wake County, N.C., school district that once used socioeconomic diversity as a factor in student assignment now plans to...
Read More >Virginia ed secretary will be Florida's next education commissioner
Gerard Robinson, the education secretary for Virginia and one of the nation's most stalwart advocates for school choice and parental...
Read More >AEI on vouchers: Does choice spur competition?
The American Enterprise Institute brought together some luminaries in academia and policy yesterday to ask whether vouchers "force public schools...
Read More >Political payback for Dem defenders of choice
For sharing a stage with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to urge passage of a tax credit scholarship bill to...
Read More >Legislative update: Milwaukee voucher expansion clears Assembly
The Wisconsin Assembly passed Gov. Scott Walker's state budget early today, which would expand the City of Milwaukee's school voucher...
Read More >N.J. school board president: Teachers unions need a strategy makeover
When a school board president tells the New Jersey Education Association that its lobbyists and spokespeople "appear conditioned to defend the...
Read More >Georgia Supreme Court declines to reconsider charter decision
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is reporting today that the Georgia Supreme Court won't reconsider its 4-3 decision last month declaring the...
Read More >Baltimore Democratic mayoral candidate favors vouchers, open enrollment
In addition to calling for mayoral control of Baltimore's troubled public school system, Democratic candidate Otis Rolley told The Baltimore...
Read More >Andre Agassi on his charter school plans
In a weekend interview with The New York Times, former tennis star Andre Agassi elaborated on the motivation for his...
Read More >The political marketplace of charter schools
In his weekly "School of Thought" column on Time.com, Andy Rotherham considers the political backlash currently afflicting charter schools and walks...
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