Why did Atilla the Hun get the works? Competition has many perks!
Note from Matt Ladner: During the writing of a previous post I related a mistaken notion regarding pending Oklahoma charter...
Read More >‘Lord of the Rings’ paraphrased: One board to rule them all and in the darkness bind them
Last week, I documented the sad decline of charter school laws passed since 2000 if you actually want laws to...
Read More >Reading Wars: A New Hope
A new working paper by David Grissmer of the University of Virginia and others found very large and positive impacts...
Read More >Two thousand zero zero, party over, oops out of time
Recently, I had the opportunity to speak to a group of state lawmakers, one of whom asked me a startling...
Read More >Can Texas keep up with Florida?
One of my darkest days as a sports fan came in January of 1991. Mrs. Ladner and I were on...
Read More >Florida’s low-income students have most to gain from universal school choice
The passage of HB1, a bill which makes all Florida children eligible for education choice, will benefit low-income children remaining...
Read More >Matt Ladner: Florida lawmakers pass legislation making Florida 6th state with universal ESAs
By a vote of 26-12, the Florida Senate passed House Bill 1. This is a fantastic achievement and a capstone...
Read More >Which states will be ‘un-investable’ for young families?
Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary joined CNN recently to discuss “the one thing that no one saw coming – the competition...
Read More >Management is dead, long live emancipation!
Blogger and journalist Matthew Yglesias wrote an interesting piece on his substack blog called “The Strange Death of Education Reform,...
Read More >Arkansas becomes fifth state with broad K-12 choice
The Arkansas House of Representatives passed SB 294, the Arkansas Learns Act, which has previously passed the Arkansas Senate. The...
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