Don’t like what an education reformer has to say? Just call them a teacher basher. Increasingly, that’s what teachers and others are doing, with this recent blog post on CNN – “When did teacher bashing become the new national pastime?” – being the latest in a long list of examples. Most of these articles set… Read more »
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Final tally on school choice bills in Florida
Editor’s note: Florida has a national reputation as school choice central. And in the state legislative session that ended Friday, lawmakers again took up a wide range of choice proposals, including the parent trigger bill that drew so much attention. Here’s a redefinED rundown of what happened from Amy Graham, senior policy analyst for Step Up for Students. The bills that passed… Read more »
redefinED roundup: parent triggers in Florida, voucher studies in Milwaukee and more
Editor’s note: We’re going to try something new this morning – a quickie roundup of recent headlines that we think deserve your attention. In keeping with redefinED’s focus, we’ll put the spotlight on stories regarding school choice (vouchers, charters, tax-credit-scholarships, etc.) and/or speak to new definitions of public education. Florida: A parent trigger bill clears… Read more »
Cherry picking, uneven playing fields and other myths about Florida’s ‘voucher’ program
Editor’s note: As debate over HB 859 – which affects Florida’s tax credit scholarship program – heads to a floor vote in the House of Representatives as early as today, it’s likely that its critics will offer some of the same curious arguments they have throughout the bill’s committee stops. Jon East, vice president for policy and… Read more »
In Florida, a teachers union that doesn’t just say no
Editor’s note: In one of yesterday’s posts, we noted how often school choice supporters are caricatured. But truth be told, we’re not alone. Teachers unions and their members are sometimes dismissed with unflattering generalizations too. Doug Tuthill, a former teachers union president himself, pauses today to spotlight a union right here in our backyard that… Read more »
What other nations are telling us about educational diversity
This essay was first posted at the CLR Forum by the Center for Law and Religion at St. John’s University School of Law. By Ashley Berner In a recent column for the New York Times, David Brooks argued that a healthy society requires a “thick ecosystem” in which diverse organizations create a rich “spiritual, economic… Read more »
Retracing America’s path away from pluralism
This essay was first posted at the CLR Forum by the Center for Law and Religion at St. John’s University School of Law. By Ashley Berner Let me begin with a thought experiment. Suppose that a majority of parents in a school district wished their children to have a traditional curriculum that included Latin, The… Read more »
Gloria Romero weighs in on Florida parental empowerment
A parental empowerment bill inspired by the California trigger law has now moved through three different committees in the Florida Legislature, and former California Senate Majority Leader Gloria Romero has entered the debate. As those who followed the fight on the Pacific Coast know, this is a deeply personal issue to her. In a brief… Read more »
From charters to vouchers — the next evolution for liberal Democrats
About two million American children now attend more than 5,000 charter schools nationwide. Although it is likely to take some time for charter schools to be the educators of even 10 percent of our children, they are heading in that direction and appear to have become an entrenched feature of our public education system with charter… Read more »
On for-profit education, what motivates a reporter
If it feels to the education reformer that The New York Times and The Miami Herald have made grand attempts to gore the growing presence of for-profit education providers, it’s because they have. But there are many false assumptions that lead the critic to suppose these are the transgressions of the “liberal media.” If choice advocates and… Read more »
