School choice scholarships don't hurt public education
Editor's note: This op-ed by Step Up For Students President Doug Tuthill was written in response to a March 10 column...
Read More >Private interests abound for everyone in public education debate
We all have private interests. People pursuing their private interests – individually or as a group – is what drives...
Read More >It’s not easy balancing school choice and regulatory accountability
As public education increasingly organizes itself around customized learning, determining how best to regulate this expanding diversity is a challenge....
Read More >On school choice, teacher unions & McDonald’s franchises
While doing my end-of-the year inbox purge, I came across a few interesting items. In a Sept. 30 column in...
Read More >Mostly agreeing with Andy Smarick, but ...
In his keynote speech to a national gathering of faith-based educators in New York City last month, Andy Smarick offered...
Read More >An argument for school vouchers amidst fight over Obamacare
Arguments supporting parental school choice can crop up in unexpected places. Even in a left-leaning take on a particularly controversial...
Read More >Time for school boards to stop competing, start regulating
The latest evidence that school districts are increasingly acting like commercial businesses comes from the two urban districts in the...
Read More >School districts should regulate school choice, not compete with it
Florida’s Duval County School District is losing students to charter schools, and the district’s entrepreneurial superintendent, Nikolai Vitti, is fighting...
Read More >Gov. Scott’s ed summit was “democracy at its finest”
I was honored to attend the recent state education summit called by Florida Gov. Rick Scott. The governor invited a...
Read More >Low-income students need more resources to close achievement gaps
The latest Florida Department of Education report on the tax credit scholarship program, and my summer discussions with scholarship parents,...
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