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High court's refusal to consider appeal means charter schools' status will likely be decided by future test case

Charter schools are still public schools, at least for now. The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday that it would not...

Long-term trend NAEP brings more bad news

The National Assessment of Educational Progress released Long Term Trend data for 13-year-old students last week. On these exams, 10...

Column: What Florida's school choice scholarship programs meant to me

Editor's note: The following column by Hera Varmah, a beneficiary of the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship and the communication and...

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New edTonomy app helps entrepreneurs manage the business of education

Lexa Duno became an educational entrepreneur before educational entrepreneurialism was cool, or even a thing. In 2015, as a fifth-grade...

Commentary: Parent wants education choice for all Texas kids

Editor's note: This commentary, written by team members at the Institute for Justice, orginally appeared June18 in the Beaumont Enterprise....

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Education choice scholarship puts Florida student on the path to college, military

PLANTATION, Florida – There was no way William “JR” Moreland was taking AP Language and Composition as a junior, or so...

Report: Four recommendations as states begin hard work of putting ESA programs in place

Editor's note: This commentary by Nicole Stelle Garnett, senior fellow at The Manhattan Institute, and Michael McShane, director of...

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Latest Nation's Report Card data show decades of decline for 13-year-olds

Editor's note: This story on the latest scores released from the National Assessment of Educational Progress originally appeared Wednesday in...

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Commentary: Do charter schools hold the key to correcting pandemic learning loss?

Editor’s note: This post from Bruno V. Manno, senior adviser to the Walton Family Foundation’s K-12 Program and a reimaginED contributor, appeared...

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Commentary: Pennsylvania should look to ed choice states like Florida to fix its broken education system

Editor's note: This commentary by Mark LeBlond, policy director of EdChoice, was originally published in the Washington Examiner. Ashley Elliott...

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