Education Reform Opinion
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Education Reform Opinion
McSHANE: How Unified Enrollment Systems Solve Some Problems and Cause Other Ones
Central planners tinker and tinker, causing new problems for each one they solve. Perhaps they should stop before they’ve wrecked…
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DeGROW: School Choice Withstands Assaults and Continues to Gain Support
Today’s toxic political climate can make it difficult to separate the popularity of a policy from a polarizing personality associated…
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QUISENBERRY: 25 Years Later, Our Charter School Vision Is Thriving
In October of 1993, Michigan undertook a bold opportunity to change public education in an unprecedented way. That opportunity -…
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TAMPIO: Curbing PARCC Test Won’t Improve Maryland Education
The only way to improve public education in Maryland is to replace the Common Core standards with ones that empower…
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ANTONUCCI: Remember the ‘Havoc’ Janus Was Supposed to Cause? What Happened With That?
When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that public-sector unions could no longer charge agency fees to non-members, a chorus of…
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STAR TRIBUNE: Minnesota School Districts Can Learn from Odds-Defying Schools
Schools that beat the odds demonstrate that stubborn achievement disparities between groups of students can be narrowed and even closed.…
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POLUMBO: How School Choice Could Solve the Remedial Education Problem in Colleges
The prevalence of remedial college courses represents an obvious failing of our K-12 public school system. Increasing school choice could…
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MEYERS: Stop Blaming Charter Schools for Districts’ Financial Distress
These special-interest groups are driven to protect the system, the traditional way of doing things, and their own pocketbooks rather…
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HESS: How Much Do Rising Test Scores Tell Us About A School?
So, how much do test scores really tell us, anyway? It turns out: A lot less than we’d like.
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DELISLE: A Teacher-Recruitment Program Set Up to Fail
Lost in the outrage and partisan blame is a sober account of the many problems with this ill-conceived government program.
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QUISENBERRY: Why Charter Schools Aren’t Political to Parents
What parents and taxpayers care about is that every student, regardless of race, income or family status, has access to…
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SAND: The Looming Apocalypse in California
Unfazed – incredibly – UTLA still contends that the district is hoarding money that could be used to give teachers…
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CHURCHILL: Charter Schools Effects on District Spending and Achievement
Among the most frequently heard concerns around charter schools is that they drain money from traditional districts, potentially harming students…
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ANTONUCCI: When Is a Teacher Strike Legal, and What Happens If the Los Angeles Teachers Union Walks Out Early?
UTLA members have authorized their leaders to call a strike, but state law requires a series of steps be followed…
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BUTCHER: School Districts Waste Money That Could Pay Teachers
Before lawmakers and voters consider tax increases now or in the future — and if administrators and teachers march on…
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GREENE: How Decentralized School Control Can Lead to More Art Education
The arts are not that expensive and if schools were more responsive to parental and community preferences, they would give…
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DeGROW: Skip the Rhetoric and Listen More to Parents Who Have Exercised School Choice
Candidates for governor should skip the rhetoric and listen more to parents, including those who have exercised school choice.
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CATT: How Tennessee’s Education Savings Account Spending Compares to Other States
The biggest difference in spending clearly comes in the private school tuition category. There are two big factors I think…
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BOGLE: Why We Chose Online School for Our Teen
We didn’t take choosing an online school lightly. Among our concerns, we wanted her to have a regular public school…
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HOLLAND: School Choice Can Enhance School Safety
School choice would give families more relief from the bullying/harassing form of violence than a whole battalion of school resource…
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THE DETROIT NEWS: More Proof That Charter Schools Do Better
Hard evidence continues to debunk the widely circulated myth that charter schools in Detroit perform no better than traditional public…
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McCLUSKEY: Educational Freedom and the Importance of Hair
Though saddened to see African-American children removed from private schools for their hairstyles, I am more concerned that such incidents…
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ALGER: Despite Crusade against School Choice, Most Americans Are Still in Favor
Not only has overall support for universal private-school options increased by 9 percentage points since 2017, bipartisan support has also…
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California
MOLINA: If Los Angeles Families Were at the Negotiating Table, They’d Tell Teachers Not to Strike
If teachers strike and schools close, these parents will face bad options. Should they miss work to take care of…
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LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS: With Most Americans in Support, School Vouchers Deserve a Try
Despite not being talked about very often, there appears to be widespread public support for alternatives to the traditional system…
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