Last month Idaho Ed News published an article by Michael Petrilli, president of the Washington, D.C.-based Thomas B. Fordham Institute, urging Idaho to stay with the Common Core national curriculum-content standards. In a sense it is not very surprising that Washington’s beltway actors would want Idaho to stay in their stable of uniform—even if mediocre—national standards. After...
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The political roots of the modern school-choice movement are still poorly understood nearly thirty years after the first publicly funded private-school voucher program was established in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1990. Miss Virginia, a narrative film in select theaters and Amazon Prime, helps fill this void, offering a rare look at the political realities underlying...
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Private schools and independent public charter schools are more productive than district public schools, according to a new report.
Thousands of Washington, DC public-school students could soon be a whole lot safer at school thanks to new legislation being considered in Congress.
With few exceptions, charter schools are part of the government monopoly on education, a collective farm of mediocrity and failure.
Parents and students deserve full educational choice, with the dollar following the scholar, as a matter of basic civil rights.
Any day now the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, the outcome of which will have major implications.
A growing number of parents may be voting with their feet this fall by taking advantage of Arizona’s expansive educational choice programs.
No parent should have to play “Mother, may I” with the state or federal government to enroll their child in a school they think is safe.
California’s current education system, which largely rations education based on where a child’s parents can afford to live, is a relic of a bygone era.
