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SCOTUS sidesteps families' challenge to Michigan’s restrictive Blaine Amendment

The big story: After delivering a one-two punch to Blaine Amendments, the nation’s highest court decided not to take aim...

Arizona Mama Bears versus the Blob of Bureaucratic Goop

Years ago, education reformers coined the phrase “Big Learning Organization Bureaucracies aka the BLOB” to describe the collection of...

'I was in shock’: South Carolina education choice ruling sends mom scrambling

For a decade, Yamilette Albertson Rodriguez served her country as a Marine sergeant. She spent seven months deployed in the...

Reforming the shattered pieces of South Carolina’s ESA

The Japanese art of pottery, kintsugi, uses gold in the process of reconstituting something broken. Rather than attempting to conceal...

Social engineering, ESAs, and the public education market

Governments engage in social engineering when they create policies and programs to influence (i.e., govern) their citizens’ behavior. All governing,...

School choice threatened for thousands of families after back-to-back court losses in two states

The story: The nation’s education choice movement suffered its second legal defeat in as many days after the Nebraska Supreme...

Commentary: Lawmakers should consider Oklahoma funding model after South Carolina high court's rejection of ESAs

For David Warner, choosing a school for his son was a “very personal” decision, he said. The ability to select...

Jonathan Butcher

South Carolina’s top education leader vows to defend ESA program after state high court strikes it down

The big story: Nearly 3,000 low-income students and their families now find themselves scrambling for education options a month...

Take a great law and make it better

Oklahoma lawmakers created the most robust K-12 personal use tax credit in American history last year. It occurred to your...

Tribal politics, education choice, and the Constitution

As our country was being formed, states such as Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Virginia adopted...

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