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School Vouchers

Joy Resmovits

Expanding Charters, Bolstering Vouchers: New Round Of State Laws Focuses On Education

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 07.23.2011 | Home

NEW YORK -- Since the Republican takeover of state legislatures around the country, states have been passing loudly-trumpeted laws that revamp teacher...

Vouchers Are a Scam

Steve Nelson | Posted 07.12.2011 | Home
Steve Nelson

Ms. Rhee's missive intentionally avoids some very glaring problems, leading one to suspect her motivation and the motivation of other conservatives who press for vouchers and school choice.

A Strategic Defeat for Educational Freedom

Adam Schaeffer | Posted 07.05.2011 | Politics
Adam Schaeffer

The voucher program signed into Indiana law today will not only expand state control over schools by requiring adherence to a single curriculum, it will also cut into the market for non-accredited schools.

D.C. Mayor Released After Being Arrested For Protesting Budget Restrictions

AP | JESSICA GRESKO | Posted 06.11.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The budget deal lawmakers struck to avoid a government shutdown was greeted by some with relief, but it has one city already reelin...

School Vouchers Under The Microscope: Do They Really Improve Student Achievement?

Posted 06.01.2011 | Home

The Milwaukee School Choice Program, which was not only the first but also the largest school voucher program in the country, has fallen under fire af...

House Votes To Reinstate D.C. School Vouchers

AP | BEN NUCKOLS | Posted 05.31.2011 | Home

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives voted Wednesday to reinstate school vouchers for District of Columbia students, reviving the only...

School Vouchers in Colorado

Joel Judd | Posted 08.21.2012 | Denver
Joel Judd

School voucher bills are a hardy perennial at the legislature. The last few years they've appeared in the guise of income tax credits. Perhaps proponents have high incomes.

5 Myths About School Vouchers -- And The Truth

TIME | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

One of the most contentious budget debates this year may be over something the president did not include in his 2012 spending plan -- school vouchers....

Florida's Education Forward! Summit: Moving the Dialogue a Step Forward

Rita M. Solnet | Posted 08.29.2012 | Home
Rita M. Solnet

Florida's public education challenges are approaching us now with hurricane force. In fact, those in the education profession might describe it as a Category 5 storm.

Boehner: Vouchers Should Be Basis For National Bipartisan Reform

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

WASHINGTON — GOP House Speaker John Boehner and independent Sen. Joe Lieberman introduced legislation Wednesday to revive a school voucher progr...

How Jeb Bush's Legislative Legacy Is Changing K-12 Education

Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

Jeb Bush may have left office in Florida almost four years ago, however many of his educational policies are still in place -- and expanding. Educat...

As Mayor, Meeks Would Push School Voucher Program

Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago

In recent weeks, candidates for mayor of Chicago have been releasing their plans for the city's struggling public school system. Perhaps the most rad...

Voucher Debate in Colorado Should Be About Excellence (Video)

Kelly Maher | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Kelly Maher

One of the knocks against the Douglas County Board of Education pursuing a school-voucher program is that the county is relatively wealthy. That misses the point.

Education Reform: My Complex Relationship with Simplicity

Bob Bowdon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Bob Bowdon

Education status quo defenders routinely call school choice "simplistic," and they mean it in the bad way.

Feed the Rich!

Alan Gottlieb | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Alan Gottlieb

Establishing a school voucher program in Douglas County would be akin to sending famine-relief supplies to the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

What Can't be Said Today

Bob Bowdon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Bob Bowdon

In education these days, it's only politically acceptable to discuss how much is spent, not how well it's spent.

School Voucher Bill Fails In State House; Twelve Votes Shy Of 60 Needed

Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago

The landmark legislation would have made Chicago Public Schools the site of what experts said would be the nation's largest voucher program. Up to 30,...

Chicago School Vouchers: State House To Vote On Plan

Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago

SPRINGFIELD - Kids in Chicago's poorest and most-overcrowded schools could get vouchers to help cover costs at private schools under legislation a Hou...

Questioning Your "Compassionate" Politics

Brian T. Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Brian T. Schwartz

"You oppose Medicaid and government-run schools? You're heartless and lack compassion." If you have ever made this accusation, even tacitly, I invite you to reconsider.

The Future of Harlem?

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Michael Henry Adams

In a speech Malcolm X asked rhetorically, "What do Racists call a black with a PhD?," to which he answered, "Nigger!" That was America 45 years ag...

Every Day My Heart Gets Broken

Dennis Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Dennis Danziger

What I love about my students' writing is its honesty. What I admire about most of my students is that despite the hurt they've felt, the fear that follows them, they keep showing up.

Public Education: DC Vouchers Program Isn't the Answer

Rabbi David Saperstein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Rabbi David Saperstein

Taxpayer dollars should go where they are needed most: to improve public education for all of our nation's children.

A Hard Look at Education

Cory Booker | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Cory Booker

In America now, I can confidently say that it is no longer a question of can we educate all of our children at equal and high levels -- it is a question of will we.

Obama Practices Social Promotion

Gary Stager | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Gary Stager

The "end of social promotion" has caused tens of thousands of kids as young as 3rd grade to be left-back, despite overwhelming evidence that this... children and increases the drop-out rate.

Whom Will He Choose?

Martin Carnoy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Martin Carnoy

With government as the investor of last resort, Obama has broad support to implement major changes in the educational, health care, and energy systems using federal money.