Scholarship Implementation
Learn about the practical implementation of education scholarships and their real-world effects on students, families, and communities.
ESA opponents endorse Anarcho-Capitalism in surprise move
When I was in graduate school, one of my fellow students described the movie Sudden Death to me. Something about terrorists, the vice president, a professional hockey game and Jean-Claude Van Damme. “It was a parody, but no one told Jean-Claude Van Damme,” the summary concluded. Arizona’s ESA opponents have... READ MORE‘If you don’t innovate, you will stagnate’: Florida charter schools urged to evolve
Education is no longer about students sitting in rows of desks from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. And school choice, the term supporters used for years to describe the movement...
READ MOREApocalypse NOT, Permissionless Education NOW
Francis Ford Coppola shot a scene for Apocalypse Now set in a plantation owned by die-hard French imperialists holding out in Vietnam. Set in 1968 during the height of the...
READ MOREWhat American military aviation strategy might teach the ESA movement
Recently I watched a presentation about the United States military. We face a very real if under-discussed possibility of an attack by China on American forces as a part...
READ MOREPublic education is transitioning from its second to third paradigm
Public education is in the early stages of transitioning from its second to third paradigm. In his 1962 book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn described an organization’s paradigm...
READ MOREJewish schools in Florida are growing so fast, they’re running out of room; here’s one example
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – Thirteen years ago, Katy Horowitz and her family moved from London to Miami, where she promptly secured a job at a charter school. But when the...
READ MOREWhere Florida leads…
Years ago, I was getting what remained of my hair cut in Prescott, Arizona. My barber was telling me about the old days in Arizona, and that he had grown...
READ MOREPolly Williams’ and Milton Friedman’s approaches to education choice are merging
Milton Friedman first proposed giving families control of their children’s public education dollars in his 1955 essay “The Role of Government in Education.” Friedman argued that the best way to...
READ MORENearly half a million students awarded Florida education choice scholarships
Nearly half a million Florida students have been awarded scholarships that will allow them to direct public education funding to providers of their choice next school year. Step Up For...
READ MORELow-income students benefit when states give all students access to ESAs
While affluent students do benefit from access to ESAs, low-income students also benefit from universal access in ways that many critics and some education choice supporters do not understand.
READ MOREIn education, this is where the energy is
For the first time last week, I flew home from an education conference with a feeling that recalled Hunter S. Thompson’s wistful remembrance of San Francisco in the mid-’60s. You...
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