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Peter H. Hanley

Peter H. Hanley is director of Discovery Institute’s American Center for Transforming Education, the successor to the American Center for School Choice. The Center remains dedicated to bringing school choice to the center of the political spectrum since Peter led the merger in June 2015. He successfully created the national Commission on Faith-based Schools, which continues at Discovery, to improve the understanding of the important part these schools have in American education and the need for expanding public support for parental choice. In addition, he is the board president of a charter management organization with schools in Oakland and Richmond, California, sits on a Waldorf-inspired charter school board in Oakland, and is in his fourth term as an elected board member in San Mateo, California.
11/13/12
Peter H. Hanley
President Obama has often called on us to be true to who we are as a people, as Americans. And...
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08/24/12
Peter H. Hanley
After more than a decade working in education reform I learned long ago that if I stopped to kick every...
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06/26/12
Peter H. Hanley
Editor's note: This is the second of two posts we're running this week to commemorate the landmark U.S. Supreme Court...
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05/31/12
Peter H. Hanley
Mitt Romney’s white paper on education, “A Chance for Every Child,” offers laudable support for increased parental choice and for...
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05/25/12
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At every crossroads toward the future, it’s been said, tradition will post 10,000 people to guard the past. For frustrated...
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05/14/12
Peter H. Hanley
Editor’s note: Progress in the parental school choice movement is measured not only by big gains in states like Indiana...
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04/26/12
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The assertion that school choice somehow exacerbates segregation and separatism in American society surprises me every time it pops up....
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03/26/12
Peter H. Hanley
As a former U.S. Commerce Department Foreign Service officer, as well as someone who worked extensively in international trade and...
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03/14/12
Peter H. Hanley
Don’t like what an education reformer has to say? Just call them a teacher basher. Increasingly, that’s what teachers and...
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03/05/12
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The Obama administration’s refusal to embrace parental choice in education is difficult to understand given its health care stance and...
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