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Father fighting to save South Carolina scholarship program calls decision ‘an opportunity to stand up for my children’s education’

When Constantine and Aliona Shulikov left the former Soviet Union as children to escape religious persecution three decades ago, public...

Palmetto state parents fight to regain power to send their kids to private schools

Two South Carolina parents are fighting to reclaim the power to direct their children’s education after a state Supreme Court...

Billionaire awards a new version of the Yass Prize, this time to help an entire state

The big news: Yamilette Albertson Rodriguez could hardly contain her excitement. A Philadelphia billionaire whose name she had never heard...

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...

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