Dan Lips, Author at NextSteps: Step Up For Students

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Dan Lips

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03/22/22 | Dan Lips

Teacher unions lose the ‘drain resources’ argument

School choice opponents like the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers often argue that vouchers, education savings accounts, and other parent-centered reforms would “drain resources” from public schools....

05/18/21 | Dan Lips

Project Nickel: A new search engine to help parents learn what public schools spend

In the 2019 feature film “Miss Virginia,” a working mother in the nation’s capital struggles to help her teenage son escape a violent public school and leads a grassroots movement...

11/11/20 | Dan Lips

New evidence that disadvantaged children need better preschool options signals need for parental control of child care funding

A federal watchdog is warning that there may be lead in the drinking water in federally funded child care centers that serve low-income children across the country. It’s the latest...

10/23/20 | Dan Lips

Commentary: Where the nation’s largest school districts stand on reopening

Editor’s note: redefinED guest blogger Dan Lips wrote this analysis on school reopenings amid the coronavirus pandemic for The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity. Fifty of the nation’s 120...

09/08/20 | Dan Lips

How children’s savings accounts can promote equal opportunity

Editor’s note: In this commentary, Dan Lips revisits an opinion piece Robert Reich wrote 20 years ago about progressive school vouchers in which Reich offered a promising grand compromise between...

07/10/20 | Dan Lips

Reducing inequality in outside-of-school learning opportunities by investing in, expanding children’s savings accounts

The COVID-19 pandemic has cast a spotlight on one of the significant barriers to equal opportunity in American education. Children from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are more dependent on in-school learning...

12/13/19 | Dan Lips

The state of equal opportunity in American K-12 education

Editor’s note: Like many education policy experts, redefinED guest blogger Dan Lips closely monitored recent results of the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP), particularly the fact that four in...

08/13/19 | Dan Lips

Education savings accounts: a vehicle for parental choice

Executive editor’s note: This is the first in a short series of articles documenting the origins of Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Account program. AZESA was the first education savings account (ESA)...