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 »
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Private school options empower more than just children
At the Dropout Nation, editor RiShawn Biddle visited his archives and resurrected his examination of the school choice movement and his call for black churches to open their own schools. “They must embrace school reform and take the role that Catholic churches have done for so long and for so many,” Biddle writes. So it seemed… Read more »
Is a six-period high school day an offense to the Constitution?
Two years have passed since a coalition of public school supporters asked Florida courts to improve the quality of classroom education, and a divided 8-7 First District Court of Appeal ruling last week reminds us how messy these things can be. The merits of the case have not even been debated yet in the lower… Read more »
A new era, and a new partner, for redefinED
Editor’s note: As redefinED enters its second year of publication, it has joined an alliance with the American Center for School Choice. Its first post comes from Fawn Spady, the Center’s chairwoman, and Stephen D. Sugarman, its vice chairman. Today the American Center for School Choice begins its exciting partnership with redefinED in a joint… Read more »
What if teacher unions played by NFL rules?
Hall of Fame quarterback Fran Tarkenton got a lot of mileage out of his Wall Street Journal column exploring how the performance of NFL athletes “would steadily decline” if they organized under the same tenure and salary protections pushed by teachers unions. “The only difference between Tom Brady and the worst player in the league… Read more »
Seeking a paradigm shift for private schools with public purpose
Editor’s note: This guest column comes from James Herzog, the associate director for education at the Florida Catholic Conference. More than 80 private school organization leaders met at the Education Department’s headquarters for the Seventh Annual Private School Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C., this week to discuss ways to cross the public-private divide and thus better… Read more »
A think tank stumbles into some familiar arguments
There is a reason Richard Lee Colvin was selected earlier this year to lead Education Sector. He was an accomplished national education reporter who left the Los Angeles Times in 2003 to lead the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media at Columbia University’s Teachers College, where he guided other education reporters to be smarter… Read more »
Same arguments, different rulings
An Indiana judge refused to halt the state’s new voucher program, concluding that new statutory provisions guaranteeing publicly funded choice of even parochial schools are “religion-neutral” and “for the benefit” of students, not churches. It is a conclusion wholly different from one ruling issued Friday in Colorado, where a district judge weighed similar arguments challenging a Douglas County… Read more »
Constitutional confusion in 46 words
The Indiana State Teachers’ Association filed suit last week over the state’s new school voucher law, and we are about to be treated to a familiar constitutional showdown. The lawyers will dig deep into sometimes arcane and often dated legal scripture, but the policy question boils down to whether our collective educational covenant is to… Read more »
Old arguments on capacity overlook new trends
Education Week has sustained the conversation about the capacity for private schools to meet the demand for school vouchers, and policy analyst Sara Mead has added an additional argument: As they’re currently devised, voucher and tax credit programs do little to increase the number of high-quality schools. These are, of course, legitimate points, but they… Read more »
