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20 años de dedicación y concentración dan como resultado un nuevo hito para Step Up For Students
Editor’s note: You can view a timeline of Step Up For Students’ historical milestones at https://www.stepupforstudents.org/one-million/. Nearly two decades after Step Up For Students began awarding tax credit scholarships for lower-income students to fulfill their school choice dreams, the organization is marking another milestone: the funding of its 1-millionth scholarship. Over the years, as the… Read more »
Exodus from remote learning to classrooms accelerating, school reopening, face masks and more
Do Boston charter schools have a lesson to teach America?
In 2016, Massachusetts voters soundly rejected a ballot proposition (Question 2) which would have allowed 12 additional charter schools per year. A recent study demonstrates how costly this decision has been, especially for special education and English language learner (ELL) students. Tufts University Professor Elizabeth Setren analyzed enrollment lottery data for Boston charters in order… Read more »
Appeals court rules for state on reopening, learning options, superintendent quarantines and more
Comes the moment to decide
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side — J.R. Lowell The president’s nominee for the open seat on the Supreme Court appears to be a highly qualified judge and scholar. She has set her moral convictions in the open,… Read more »
Principal rehired despite Holocaust comments, learning formats, teachers leaving, pay and more
DeSantis calls school closings a mistake, Miami-Dade reopening, Runcie’s mixed review, choice and more
Another poll shows American families want more school choice
A new survey of likely voters in five key swing states commissioned by the Manhattan Institute found that respondents, especially nonwhite Americans, tend to favor expanded school choice options. The poll surveyed about 5,000 likely voters in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan and North Carolina between late August and Early September and found that between two-thirds… Read more »
The silence of my clan
“When awful darkness and silence reign” — Edw. Lear, “The Dong with the Luminous Nose” In my 40-plus years of teaching law (11 at Northwestern University, 30 at UC Berkeley), I had the privilege of rubbing elbows with scores of faculty, all of great integrity and most of common wisdom. Not all were law professors,… Read more »
