Education Reform Opinion
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FULLER: Call It ‘Ed Reform’ or Don’t — the Fight to Make Schools Work for Our Poorest Families Must Go On
Today’s pain is not new for black people. But sometimes the pain and the scars reach down and touch the…
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BURKE: Teacher Strike in Los Angeles Underscores Need for Education Choice
Increasing spending and the number of nonteaching personnel, and further regulating education choice options, such as charter schools, will only…
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DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER: Why I Won’t Strike: Effective Teachers in High-Poverty Schools Deserve Real Bonuses
If those bonuses keep shrinking, what incentivizes teachers to teach at schools like ours? If it’s the same pay at…
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CAMPANELLA: For National School Choice Week, Celebrating Teachers Who Have Founded Their Own Schools
Behind so many schools are inspiring stories — stories of people who created those schools and were motivated to make…
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HESS: The Real Deal With The Los Angeles Teachers Strike
Whereas last year’s walkouts received fawning local and national media coverage, the LA action has not enjoyed the same kind…
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EDEN: Restorative Justice Isn’t Working, but That’s Not What the Media Is Reporting
Unfortunately, the vast majority of the education policy community will not read this study in sufficient depth to share their…
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EL-MEKKI: If You Think Excellence Can’t Exist in All-Black Schools, You’re Tripping
To make it plain: If you think excellence can’t exist in all-Black spaces, you are suffering from the internalization of…
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THE OKLAHOMAN: State Lawmakers Suggest School Choice Measures ‘Will Receive the Considering They Deserve This Year’
There is no doubt education will be a legislative focus this year. What's most encouraging are indications that lawmakers' efforts…
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LOONEY: Why New Jersey Families Need School Choice
What works well for some doesn’t work well for others. That maxim holds true in many fields, but particularly in…
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WALL STREET JOURNAL: Unions in La-La Land
Here we are with another teachable moment in the failures of public union governance.
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FRIEDRICHS: #RedforED: Grassroots Movement or Union Propaganda?
Under the guise of, “We’re raising our voices t support every student,” educators are shuttering Los Angeles schools. They’re demanding…
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FELTSCHER: Parents Have a Right to Educational Options for Their Kids
Regardless of where you fall on what sex education is appropriate for children, parents ought to be in the driving…
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ANTONUCCI: The Los Angeles Teachers Strike Is Almost Here, but What Comes After?
The strike by Los Angeles public school teachers is only a day or two away (or maybe a few more).
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SAND: An Implacable Los Angeles Teachers Union Refuses Compromise
The strike has been in the works since August 2016, when United Teachers of Los Angeles president Alex Caputo-Pearl, in…
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WOLF and DeANGELIS: The Shortchanging of Public Charter School Students
One critical feature of our public school funding studies is that we focus on revenue. We think it’s important to…
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WILLIAMS: A Glimmer of Hope in Black Education
The most crucial input for a child’s education cannot be provided by schools or politicians. Continued calls for higher education…
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ANTONUCCI: Are Teachers Quitting at Record Rate? Actually, They Leave Their Jobs at Lower Rates Than Almost Everyone Else
The Wall Street Journal left a present under the tree for the education press when it published a Dec. 28…
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PLAZAS: Board Member Inviting Teachers to Show Up at Meeting Wearing Masks to Protest Ed Chief Encourages Embarrassing Circus
School board member Jill Speering, a frequent critic of MNPS Director Shawn Joseph, has inflamed divisions by her text inviting…
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ALDERMAN: The Little Talked about Reason Los Angeles Teachers May Strike
There are a number of factors driving the impasse, including fights over base salaries, class sizes, and charter schools, but…
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LADNER: Florida’s Disabled Students Show Absurdity of K-12 Apocalypse Talk
My new year’s resolution is to do a better job explaining myself as a choice supporter. There is apparently a…
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FLANDERS: Tony, Let’s Have That Honest Discussion about Vouchers
In an interview on January 2, Governor-elect Tony Evers said that he would like property tax bills to include the…
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REES: Why States and Districts Should Give Charter Schools the Facilities and Funding They Need
What’s at the top of the charter school wish list for the new year? Access to facilities that adequately serve…
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FRIEDRICHS: Teachers Have a Choice: Kids or Picket Lines
Teachers in places like Washington, Arizona, Chicago and Los Angeles are exchanging classrooms for picket lines. You may think it’s…
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KENT: Wishing for More Strange Bedfellows in Educational Choice
Few issues are as ripe for bipartisan cooperation as expanding parental choice in education, which, outside legislative chambers, cuts across…
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KY TEACHER: It’s Regressive to Attack Reforms without Applying Same Judgment to Largely Unsuccessful School Systems
If you didn’t know any better, you might think there’s a civil war brewing right now in school systems across…
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