Kentucky ‘very, very likely’ to get charter school law this year
It’s “very, very likely” that charter schools are coming to Kentucky, one of the seven states that still don’t allow charters, according to the chairman of the House Education Committee. Republican...
View ArticleWhere school choice is not part of the equation
The 74 reports on “where school choice isn’t an option” — Arvada, Wyoming, population 43, a town that has one teacher for 10 kids. For schools like the one in Arvada, in northeastern Wyoming, arcane...
View ArticleSchool choice advances in New Hampshire
New Hampshire’s Senate has passed a pair of school choice bills, that would create an education savings account program and allow school boards to contract with public or private schools in districts...
View ArticleNew Mexico may nix charter school growth
New Mexico is headed backward on school choice. A state House committee voted along party lines over the weekend to impose a moratorium on the launching of new charter schools, a move charter...
View ArticleMassachusetts OKs three new charter schools
Massachusetts voters in November rejected a proposal to raise the state’s cap on charter school expansion, but that isn’t stopping new charters from opening. State education officials voted Monday to...
View ArticleThe school choice backstory on Denisha Merriweather
President Donald Trump made Denisha Merriweather, a master’s candidate at the University of South Florida, famous on Tuesday night. The story of how Florida’s tax credit scholarship program helped make...
View ArticleCharter schools are booming where they were born
Charters schools are booming in Minnesota, the state where the first charter opened in 1991. “While traditional school district enrollment grew by 2 percent in the past five years, charter school...
View ArticleHow detractors get school choice wrong
Mary Tillotson deconstructs and debunks a recent Huffington Post piece that trashed school choice, calling it “a list of 10 bogus reasons for minimizing parents’ say in their children’s education.”...
View ArticleLos Angeles school board elections yield good news for charters
Charter school supporters fared well in Tuesday’s elections in Los Angeles, but runoffs will decide if they claim a majority on the school board. Both charter supporters and opponents spent millions on...
View ArticleCruz urges fellow Texas Republicans to expand school choice
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is taking a rare step into a debate back home, urging lawmakers in Austin to expand school choice in the Lone Star State. “There is no political, social, policy or moral excuse for...
View ArticleCritics citing IDEA swing and miss at charter schools
The anti-school choice crowd’s latest narrative — that charter schools are bad for kids with disabilities — is a fiction woven of whole cloth that ignores the inconvenient truth that charters are...
View ArticleOhio pauses ESSA implementation
Ohio education officials are delaying their ESSA implementation plan until fall, giving the state more time to gather feedback on issues such as statewide testing and teacher evaluations. The move was...
View Article‘Long overdue’ Kentucky charter schools await governor’s signature
It’s been a long time coming, but charter school supporters in Kentucky are one step away from celebrating. The legislature cleared a measure last week that would allow local school boards to authorize...
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Indiana has top charter school law
The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools’ latest rankings for state charter laws has Indiana on top and Maryland on the bottom. The top 10 is a mix of established charter programs and newer...
View ArticleCan tax credit scholarships make the move from the states to D.C.?
A federal tax credit for donations to scholarship funds for elementary and secondary school students would be an effective way “to expand opportunity for low-income children who are trapped by limiting...
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