From MLK’s “field general” to charter school champion
Civil rights leader Wyatt Tee Walker, chief of staff to Martin Luther King Jr., is a noteworthy bridge between the civil rights and school choice movements. He helped lead the charge for the first charter school in New York.
Read More >Racism, irony & school choice
Rosenwald schools, built during an earlier era to expand educational opportunity, reflect many of the impulses that guide today's school choice movement.
Read More >Lessons from a school choice trailblazer
Mary McLeod Bethune was an American hero. She was also a school choice pioneer, opening a private, faith-based school in Daytona in 1904 to expand education opportunity for African American girls. Now the state of Florida may honor her with a statue in the U.S. Capitol.
Read More >What drives a school choice stalwart
Before he became one of the most prolific and thoughtful school choice advocates in America, Jack Coons was a law...
Read More >As Florida Catholic schools grow again, disadvantaged students benefit
Catholic schools in Florida continue to grow modestly, bucking sad national trend lines, thanks to state-supported school choice programs.
Read More >'Hippie school' votes for school choice
The Grassroots Free School in Florida, a democratic "free school" with roots in '60s counterculture, supports school choice and accepts tax credit scholarships for low-income students.
Read More >A forgotten "freedom school"
Escuela de la Raza Unida sprang from a fight for educational freedom in the Hispanic farmworker community in southern California. It's yet more evidence of the politically diverse roots of school choice in America.
Read More >Labor unions for school choice
This is the latest post in our occasional series on the center-left roots of school choice. More than 30 years...
Read More >Sex, drugs and school choice
The Netherlands is one of the most liberal nations on the planet. It also has one of the world's most robust systems of parental school choice.
Read More >On parental choice and pluralism
Not long ago, progressives like Harvard sociologist Christopher Jencks, once a leading light of the Voucher Left, strongly supported school choice & dismissed now-popular arguments against it.
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