Mr. Gibbons' Report Card: voucher lawsuit, charters, and schools of terror!
North Carolina Justice Center The North Carolina Justice Center, which bills itself as a civil rights advocacy organization for low-income...
Read More >Private school network seeks to help “the toughest of the toughest”
Rob Staley founded his private school a decade ago, with eight students he expelled himself from public school. The former...
Read More >Mr. Gibbons Report Card: charter schools, charter schools and charter schools
Sen. Jeff Clemens – D-Lake Worth, Fla. Sen. Clemens filed SB 452 last week, a bill that would prohibit authorization...
Read More >Mr. Gibbons' Report Card: Professor confuses jargon, school choice friends, education lotteries and more
Julie Underwood - University of Wisconsin The ed school dean at the University of Wisconsin, Julie Underwood, argued against school...
Read More >In D.C., bureaucracy at issue, not school vouchers
Last Friday the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report highlighting flaws and failures in the oversight of Washington D.C.’s...
Read More >Mr. Gibbons' Report Card: school choice critics, campers and elections
Ed Hughes – Madison (Wis.) School Board president There is no end to the strange arguments made to oppose school...
Read More >Survey: Parents pick private schools based on learning environment, not test scores
When it comes to reasons why parents move from public to private schools, standardized test scores are nowhere near the...
Read More >Florida’s long-term NAEP gains easily outpace the nation’s
Florida made small gains over the last NAEP cycle, but how does its growth compare over the long haul? Pretty...
Read More >Florida’s low-income students fare quite well against their peers
Florida’s National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results in reading and math place the Sunshine State squarely in the middle...
Read More >Mr. Gibbons' Report Card: Lawsuit in CA, a TFA critic, vouchers in CO and more
Ted Olson: Ted Olson recently attended the Excellence in Education conference to speak about Vergara v. California, a lawsuit to...
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