School Choice
Charter Schools
Report calls for charter schools
With a pro-charter-school administration in Washington, the time is right for Nebraska to allow charter schools, according to a report being released today by a conservative Nebraska think tank. Charter schools, unencumbered by a bloated education bureaucracy, can deliver quality education at lower cost than traditional public schools, and the ...
Commentary
Money before unions
Orange County Register, January 7, 2010 blog.abwre.com, January 10, 2010 Sacramento legislators and Gov. Schwarzenegger may have achieved one of the most elusive accomplishments in California politics: bucking the teachers unions. The Assembly passed a package of education bills Tuesday that give parents more authority to move their children out ...
Education
The Obama Administration and the DC Student Voucher Program
Independent Women’s Forum, January 5, 2010 In his September 8 back-to-school speech, President Obama urged students to take responsibility for their actions. That is also good advice for the president himself and for his Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, considering that their recent actions are hurting the prospects of low-income ...
Commentary
As Congress Ends D.C. Voucher Program, Qatar Moves Toward Universal School Choice
As regular readers of the Foundry know, Congress has recently moved to end the popular and effective D.C. Opportunity Scholarship program, denying low-income families the chance to attend a school of their parents choice. Meanwhile, other countries are pushing forward with plans to give all parents school choice. In September, ...
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 ...
Report calls for charter schools
With a pro-charter-school administration in Washington, the time is right for Nebraska to allow charter schools, according to a report being released today by a conservative Nebraska think tank. Charter schools, unencumbered by a bloated education bureaucracy, can deliver quality education at lower cost than traditional public schools, and the ...
Money before unions
Orange County Register, January 7, 2010 blog.abwre.com, January 10, 2010 Sacramento legislators and Gov. Schwarzenegger may have achieved one of the most elusive accomplishments in California politics: bucking the teachers unions. The Assembly passed a package of education bills Tuesday that give parents more authority to move their children out ...
The Obama Administration and the DC Student Voucher Program
Independent Women’s Forum, January 5, 2010 In his September 8 back-to-school speech, President Obama urged students to take responsibility for their actions. That is also good advice for the president himself and for his Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, considering that their recent actions are hurting the prospects of low-income ...
As Congress Ends D.C. Voucher Program, Qatar Moves Toward Universal School Choice
As regular readers of the Foundry know, Congress has recently moved to end the popular and effective D.C. Opportunity Scholarship program, denying low-income families the chance to attend a school of their parents choice. Meanwhile, other countries are pushing forward with plans to give all parents school choice. In September, ...
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 ...
