Florida may need more private school options for working-class families
Step Up For Students (SUFS) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to help low-income parents access the schools that...
Read More >It's time for the Berlin Wall to fall in America's public education system
Getting lost in the complexities of education reform is easy, so I use the following analogy to help me understand...
Read More >Expanded school choice will strengthen society and democracy, not undermine it
Valerie Strauss recently reprinted a commentary on her Washington Post blog, Answer Sheet, from Ann Geiger, a former Orange County,...
Read More >No legal reason for Jews not to embrace private school vouchers
Peter Beinart, a professor at the City University of New York and a former editor of The New Republic, has...
Read More >Michelle Rhee's evolution on school choice
Michelle Rhee and I are members of the same political tribe. We’re progressive Democrats. Throughout most of the 1800s and...
Read More >In parent trigger debate, teachers unions sounded an awful lot like management
I started teaching in the fall of 1977, and by the winter of 1978 I had become a union organizer....
Read More >Businesses, teachers unions benefit financially from status quo in education
Editor's note: Corporate greed! Profits! Privatization! Shout the same, alarming buzz words enough - as critics of education reform are...
Read More >The progressive choice: embrace school choice
Editor's note: Vouchers, charters, tax-credit scholarships - all part of the right-wing conspiracy to privatize education, right? Doug Tuthill argues that it's...
Read More >In Florida, a teachers union that doesn't just say no
Editor’s note: In one of yesterday’s posts, we noted how often school choice supporters are caricatured. But truth be told,...
Read More >Who you calling conservative?
I am a left-of-center Democrat who’s been an education reformer for 34 years and have always considered myself progressive, so...
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