Charter Schools vs. the Education Monopoly
“If I choose for my child to go to a charter school, then that's where my taxes should go!"
“If I choose for my child to go to a charter school, then that's where my taxes should go!"
Governments limit charter schools, even though charters often do better than government-run schools.
People also want more funds for public schools, but support drops when they're informed of current expenditures.
We wouldn’t have to squabble over control of shared institutions if we were free to pick the right schools for our kids.
Author Kerry McDonald explains why her kids flourish outside of conventional classrooms—and why yours might too.
Every kid deserves choice.
Union leaders made charters a major point of contention during the January protests.
Sen. Cory Booker's comments were in response to Sen. Bernie Sanders' public education plan, which targets charter schools.
End the curriculum wars by letting families choose education options that work for them.
The Florida Legislature had a heck of a week, passing everything from a major school choice program (yay!) to restricting the voting rights of felons (boo!).
Spending four times more in real dollars per pupil doesn't compensate for low-quality teaching.
The presidential candidate suggested at the time that charter schools and traditional public schools can coexist.
Those without a financial leg up have a much harder time succeeding.
Walkout unmasks how unions put kids second when it comes to publicly financed education.
"It was me choosing my life."
The New Jersey senator was once a big supporter of education reform, but that could be a liability in 2020.
The district's budget is broken, and the latest deal with the unions will make it worse.
Q&A with the president of National School Choice Week, Andrew Campanella
They demanded higher salaries. The real problem: A disconnect between what teachers see in their paychecks and what employers are actually paying them.
Bob Luddy, who made a fortune in commercial kitchen ventilation, is opening Thales College in North Carolina later this year.
"School is a place where children go to learn to be stupid," said author and educator John Holt.
Private schools are holding their ground against surging competition and scared regulators.
Data from North Carolina, Florida, and Arizona show how school choice programs take care of students who would otherwise be neglected.
Stossel in the Classroom offers teachers free videos.
National School Choice Week, an annual event designed to promote educational options for K-12 students and parents, is underway.
Lisa Snell interviews Johns Hopkins' Ashley Berner, author of Pluralism and American Public Education: No One Way to School.
Once again, politicians in the Empire State want to leave nowhere to hide from their control.
The latest trial balloon from the perennial White House Hamlet contains more lead than the paint of a New York public school.
Until we can get government entirely out of education, we'll have to keep fighting to preserve and expand our ability to choose what's right for our kids.
"I think if a student is really unsettled and anxious because of it you should probably make it something less stressful."
Those tykes are worth big bucks to institutional educators, so if you don't hand 'em over, you might be slapped with fines or even incarceration.
Both right and left decry implicit government discrimination on the basis of religion when it targets groups they sympathize with. But both are all too ready to turn a blind eye in other cases.
Opponents of charter schools often claim that school choice will segregate K-12 education. Sumter County, Alabama proves them wrong.
These days, kids are heading back to increasingly varied learning experiences that might or might not include anything recognizable as a traditional school.
Reading is fundamental, but it's not a fundamental right.
Rising benefits costs and a bloated administration is putting Los Angeles' schools deep in the red.
Seeing your kids held hostage in a battle between government factions is a great incentive to look for alternatives.
Trump's secretary of education says she's "undeterred."
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos might rescind Obama-era guidance on school discipline.
Top public school officials will risk their careers to have school choice. Maybe they should let everyone else have it too.
The education establishment hates them.
School choice and cultural pressure are better than government mandates.
The Larry Nassar sex abuse scandal brings new leadership and old complaints.
"The Case Against Education" author and economist says "if all we're trying to do is prepare people for a job, why not prepare them with a *job*?"
It's way past time that we dump factory-model schools for more individualized K-12 programs.
School choice is about extending the privileges of the upper middle class to everyone else.