Districts & Charter Schools
From school districts to charter schools, we cover public schools and the ways they are governed.
The pursuit of educational happiness in Arizona’s Roosevelt Elementary District
Facing a multimillion-dollar deficit, the board of the Roosevelt Elementary School District in Phoenix Arizona recently began a debate over a proposal to close as many as five schools, a third of the district total. This is the result of the decisions of Roosevelt families to pursue other public school... READ MOREAnalysis: Florida schools boast better reading results, especially for low-income students, for less money
Florida’s public schools score among the best in the nation in nine-year-olds’ reading achievement. For low-income students, their results are the best in the nation, period. And they also deliver...
READ MOREPublic schools and the looming shortage of American labor
Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has calculated a worker shortage index for each state, calculating the ratio of people looking for work...
READ MOREFlorida school district offers virtual classes to scholarship students – with more to follow
This school year, 2024-2025, for the first time, Brevard County students using Florida’s education choice scholarship programs will have a new option: the ability to sign up for online courses...
READ MOREWhy don’t district teachers benefit from increases in district spending?
Recently, because this is the sort of thing your friendly neighborhood school choice mad scientist likes to do, I examined the Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction annual reports. Stick...
READ MORE‘One headline, why believe it?’
Kate Payne of the Associated Press wrote a piece about the Madison County School District, a small rural area east of Tallahassee titled School choice and a history of...
READ MOREAmerican education shortchanges our dudes
Steve Malanga writing in City Journal recently made a rather chilling and well-documented case that a growing number of American men are not simply unemployed but are also unemployable....
READ MOREFrom school districts to education districts
The expanding number of states making flexible spending accounts (ESAs) accessible to their public education students is accelerating the transition from school choice to education choice as families spend their...
READ MOREReports of the death of public education have been greatly exaggerated
Rarely does a day go by in which your author does not come across yet another would-be Cassandra predicting the death of public education. Those rare days only...
READ MOREThe greatest trick the Bootlegger ever pulled…
Over at Charter Folks, Jed Wallace weighed in on the recent Rotherham/Pillow/Yours Truly discussion on the state of the charter school movement in an era of increased popularity of ESAs....
READ MOREWho should decide the school mix in Columbus, Ohio?
The 74 recently ran an article titled Fewer Students, Crumbling Buildings: Columbus Looks to Shut Schools Again: Ohio district has tried to downsize, and failed, twice since 2016. But with...
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