North Carolina families win with passage of universal ed choice eligiblity
And North Carolina makes nine. After a transformative year in which lawmakers in more than a dozen states either created new learning options for children in K-12 schools or...
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South Carolina’s education savings accounts a love letter to the next generation
Editor’s note: This commentary from Jonathan Butcher, the Will Skillman senior research fellow in education policy at The Heritage Foundation, is an exclusive to reimaginED. Shelricka Burnside is a single...
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Jonathan Butcher: Good ideas in education travel in packs
Earlier this year, I wrote for reimaginED that South Carolina educators were publicly debating the nature and purpose of education in the state. Whether schools should focus on STEM or...
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South Carolina must sweat details on school choice
All education committee hearings in South Carolina should open with staff placing flags on a map marking the states that adopted new choices in K-12 education since the last meeting....
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S.C. should trust parents to make the best education choices for their kids
Should schools do more to train students for the workforce, or focus on the three R’s? South Carolina K-12 officials have been debating that very question lately. A few education...
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Best of 2022: Offering hope to Oklahoma students, families with education savings accounts
Editor’s note: In keeping with our year-end tradition, the team at reimaginED reviewed our work over the past 12 months to find stories and commentaries that represent our best content...
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‘Getting and spending’ wastes parent, student power
In Baltimore, local media are reporting that a student with a 0.13 GPA ranked in the top half of his class. After finishing four years of high school, district officials...
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Biden administration ‘had a plan’ for school re-opening; let’s review
On Sept. 1, U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona claimed that the Biden administration had a plan to “focus on safely getting back to in-person learning” last year. On the same...
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Close enough in education choice no longer good enough
Those defending discrimination in education received a well-deserved comeuppance last month—from two quarters. The first, a lesson in constitutional law, matches nicely with the second, the creation of expansive opportunities...
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West Virginia, businesses investing in innovative education options
With rising inflation and a stock market on the rocks, any big investment is worth watching. And with researchers reporting poor returns on student achievement in assigned schools during the...
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Time to help South Carolina students dream big
South Carolina parents and students are ready for summer. In Greenville, high schools like Eastside and Riverside held their graduations last week. Charter schools around the state also had their...
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South Carolina lawmakers must finish job of creating options for K-12 students
Horse racing, teacher raises, and a budget flush with cash. South Carolina lawmakers have plenty to debate before the legislative session ends June 15. But parents hope legislators don’t bolt...
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Offering hope to Oklahoma students, families
Oklahoma parent Kelly Shank says that if her youngest son had anything to say about it, he would not socialize at all. Now in sixth grade, her son has been...
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Hopeful idea from Washington: Give students options when schools close
Editor’s note: Jonathan Butcher, senior policy analyst in the Center for Education Policy’s Institute for Family, Community and Opportunity at The Heritage Foundation and a reimaginED guest blogger, interviewed Sen. Tim...
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Why we can hope for a better K-12 world in 2022
Federal officials are trying to appear analytical. Facing dismal student outcomes and lower enrollment at assigned schools in the wake of—and, in some places, in the midst of—school closures, policymakers...
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Best of 2021: Fact-checking the pundits as a new school year begins
Editor’s note: reimaginED is proud to reintroduce to our readers our best content of 2021 such as this commentary from guest blogger Jonathan Butcher. As students head back to school,...
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Commentary: Washington is coming to micromanage your preschool, giving you fewer options
Presidents should resist the urge to rewrite the dictionary. Such powers are not in the Constitution. Yet, President Joe Biden seems bound and determined to treat language in the style...
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South Carolina, education savings accounts have the potential to make the state a student’s market
Educators are in such high demand in South Carolina that observers are calling it a “teacher’s market.” While it’s reassuring that teachers have options, shouldn’t state officials make the education...
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