School Choice
Commentary
California Students Need the Gift That Keeps on Giving
The holiday season finds Sacramento legislators scrambling for $700 million in Race to the Top money from the federal government. In the midst of the chaos, policy makers, parents and taxpayers should take time to reflect on what Californias six million public school students really need, starting with high expectations. ...
Education
Scrooging Schoolchildren
The U.S. House passed a $447 billion omnibus spending bill on Thursday. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) claims all that spending will help restore long-term prosperity. In reality, the bill is a windfall for bureaucracies that leaves thousands of the District’s most disadvantaged students out in the cold. In a move ...
Commentary
Education summit, Qatar and school choice
Providence Journal (Providence, RI), December 11, 2009 DOHA, Qatar While there have been global economic and environmental summits for a number of years, mid-November brought the first international education summit, which was organized here. Some may wonder why an event designed to spur education innovation worldwide would be held in ...
Education
Still Not As Good As You Think: 2009 Update on Why the Middle Class Needs School Choice
In 757 California public schools with predominantly non-disadvantaged, mostly middle-class students, 50 percent or more students in at least one grade level performed below proficient on the 2008 state tests. This is an update of Pacific Research Institute’s groundbreaking book Not as Good as You Think: Why the Middle Class ...
Commentary
New Report Finds that Many Students at California’s “Middle Class” Public Schools Are Not Proficient in English or Mathematics
In 757 California public schools with predominantly non-disadvantaged, mostly middle-class students, 50 percent or more students in at least one grade level performed below proficient on the 2008 state tests. San Francisco–-The Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a free-market think tank based in San Francisco, released an update of its groundbreaking ...
Commentary
Film about Capo district’s woes to be screened on Capitol Hill
WASHINGTON – A libertarian think-tank that prominently features the Capistrano Unified School District in a documentary about how the U.S. public school system is broken will screen its 49-minute film this afternoon on Capitol Hill. “Not as Good as You Think: The Myth of the Middle Class School” recounts a ...
Commentary
Arizona Tax Credit Program Offers Lessons for Other States
School Reform News (Heartland Institute), December 1, 2009 When two Arizona newspapers this summer investigated the student tuition organizations (STOs) that distribute funds to needy students to attend private schools in the state, they opened the state’s school choice efforts up to attack. The list of groups and individuals that ...
Charter Schools
Who’s Afraid of Charter Schools?
On November 12, parents of children at Gratts Elementary in Los Angeles received a flier, in Spanish, warning that if they signed a petition to convert their neighborhood school into a charter school they would be deported. This threat, though bogus, teaches parents and policy makers a lesson about the ...
Education
Support for School Choice is Strong in Virginia
Findings like these are bad news for traditional opponents of parental choice in education, including teachers union leaders. “All of this stuff about, ‘We need vouchers so we can send our kids other places, we need to provide choices, we need charter schools,’ all of it is simply an attempt ...
Commentary
Give “American Education Week” Some Real Meaning
This week the National Education Association is sponsoring American Education Week. According to the NEA’s website, the purpose of the week is to emphasize, “the importance of providing every child in America with a quality public education from kindergarten through college, and the need for everyone to do his or ...
California Students Need the Gift That Keeps on Giving
The holiday season finds Sacramento legislators scrambling for $700 million in Race to the Top money from the federal government. In the midst of the chaos, policy makers, parents and taxpayers should take time to reflect on what Californias six million public school students really need, starting with high expectations. ...
Scrooging Schoolchildren
The U.S. House passed a $447 billion omnibus spending bill on Thursday. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) claims all that spending will help restore long-term prosperity. In reality, the bill is a windfall for bureaucracies that leaves thousands of the District’s most disadvantaged students out in the cold. In a move ...
Education summit, Qatar and school choice
Providence Journal (Providence, RI), December 11, 2009 DOHA, Qatar While there have been global economic and environmental summits for a number of years, mid-November brought the first international education summit, which was organized here. Some may wonder why an event designed to spur education innovation worldwide would be held in ...
Still Not As Good As You Think: 2009 Update on Why the Middle Class Needs School Choice
In 757 California public schools with predominantly non-disadvantaged, mostly middle-class students, 50 percent or more students in at least one grade level performed below proficient on the 2008 state tests. This is an update of Pacific Research Institute’s groundbreaking book Not as Good as You Think: Why the Middle Class ...
New Report Finds that Many Students at California’s “Middle Class” Public Schools Are Not Proficient in English or Mathematics
In 757 California public schools with predominantly non-disadvantaged, mostly middle-class students, 50 percent or more students in at least one grade level performed below proficient on the 2008 state tests. San Francisco–-The Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a free-market think tank based in San Francisco, released an update of its groundbreaking ...
Film about Capo district’s woes to be screened on Capitol Hill
WASHINGTON – A libertarian think-tank that prominently features the Capistrano Unified School District in a documentary about how the U.S. public school system is broken will screen its 49-minute film this afternoon on Capitol Hill. “Not as Good as You Think: The Myth of the Middle Class School” recounts a ...
Arizona Tax Credit Program Offers Lessons for Other States
School Reform News (Heartland Institute), December 1, 2009 When two Arizona newspapers this summer investigated the student tuition organizations (STOs) that distribute funds to needy students to attend private schools in the state, they opened the state’s school choice efforts up to attack. The list of groups and individuals that ...
Who’s Afraid of Charter Schools?
On November 12, parents of children at Gratts Elementary in Los Angeles received a flier, in Spanish, warning that if they signed a petition to convert their neighborhood school into a charter school they would be deported. This threat, though bogus, teaches parents and policy makers a lesson about the ...
Support for School Choice is Strong in Virginia
Findings like these are bad news for traditional opponents of parental choice in education, including teachers union leaders. “All of this stuff about, ‘We need vouchers so we can send our kids other places, we need to provide choices, we need charter schools,’ all of it is simply an attempt ...
Give “American Education Week” Some Real Meaning
This week the National Education Association is sponsoring American Education Week. According to the NEA’s website, the purpose of the week is to emphasize, “the importance of providing every child in America with a quality public education from kindergarten through college, and the need for everyone to do his or ...
