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Acceptable American Inequality

David Brooks addresses a fictional foreign tourist in today's New York Times by presenting a guidemap to acceptable and unacceptable...

To better compete with charters, a Florida school board reexamines its magnets

This clip from today’s South Florida Sun Sentinel provides more evidence that Florida school districts are adapting to a more...

Expand charter school supply to ensure the weak ones ultimately fail

Sometimes things have to get worse before they can get better, and that’s the case with improving charter schools. Instead...

The Michigan Education Association's successful recall of Rep. Paul Scott -- by the numbers

$147,000 Amount raised by the committee to recall Paul Scott $140,000 The amount the Michigan Education Association contributed to the...

Broward County wants its market share back

In a post yesterday, I asserted that Florida school districts are slowly adapting to a more market-driven public education system....

The reality of school district spending

by Alan Bonsteel In the last decade, the school choice movement has succeeded in the unmasking of falsifications of dropout rates...

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Social justice vs. suburban protectionism

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, a Republican, appears to have hit upon a proposal that has equal support among voters who...

Hey, Mikey! They like it! (or, hope for Washington State)

Editor's note: This entry comes from Fawn Spady, the chairwoman of the American Center for School Choice This past week,...

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Quotable

"It's unfortunate, but we saw democracy at work." Frank Lopez, a parent of a fifth-grader at the Bank of America Learning...

Embracing a new dialogue of accountability

Accountability in public education is comprised of customer choice and government regulations, but since consumer choice in K-12 has historically...

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