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.
Read More >Rosa Parks, school choice supporter
No less an American hero than Rosa Parks supported school choice. She proposed a charter school in Detroit to help black children in some of the toughest neighborhoods.
Read More >Black & homeschooled
The fight for educational freedom has always been part of the black experience in America. A recent rise in black homeschoolers is the latest chapter.
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