Tag: D.C. vouchers
School vouchers: Cost-effective college enrollment boost; grad rates remain low
School vouchers and tax credit scholarships may not always improve participants’ standardized test performance, but a growing crop of studies suggest they are cost-effective when it comes to encouraging economically disadvantaged students to pursue a college education. Two recent Urban Institute studies, one on Milwaukee and the other on Washington,... READ MORE‘Year of educational choice’ ends on a down note for D.C. vouchers; what now?
The year of educational choice — which saw a record number of...
READ MORETeacher union opposition to D.C. vouchers unfair to the facts
The Washington, D.C. Opportunity Scholarship program is up for re-authorization in...
READ MOREAnother Democratic lawmaker for school choice – Algie Howell, podcastED
Algie Howell is a former public school teacher, a former...
READ MOREPresident Obama should ‘get out of the way’ of D.C. voucher program
Kevin Chavous, a senior advisor to the American Federation for...
READ MOREIn Obama’s Term 2, a historic opportunity to expand parental school choice
President Obama has often called on us to be true...
READ MORESchool choice push revs up in Arkansas
One of Arkansas’s top school choice advocates, Laurie Lee, is...
READ MOREJeb Bush, Michelle Rhee, Kumbaya
Liberal Democrat Michelle Rhee and conservative Republican Jeb Bush shared...
READ MOREredefinED roundup: D.C. voucher revival redux, tax credit scholarship veto in New Hampshire and more
Washington D.C.: The Obama administration relents on funding for the D.C....
READ MOREWith education reform, we can walk and chew gum at the same time
If there were any doubt that Democratic presidential politics drove...
READ MORERomney: “I will expand parental choice in an unprecedented way”
Mitt Romney is all in on school choice, at least...
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