In the midst of an eternal presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton surveyed a smorgasbord of potential treats she could have served the electorate last weekend while campaigning in South Carolina, and decided on a gigantic pitcher of stale teachers-union Kool-Aid about charter schools. In a profoundly disappointing pronouncement, especially given President[Read More…]
Author: Peter H. Hanley
Peter Hanley: Wishing outrage extended to America’s two-tiered education system
Editor’s note: This is the second post in our school choice wish series. See the rest of the line-up here. I wish those who are outraged and protesting that “black lives matter” over the two-tiered policing and criminal justice system would connect the dots and express similar outrage over our[Read More…]
With parental school choice, what are we Democrats afraid of?
Education’s parental choice is down to the heart of the matter in Florida. Will it remain a program at the margins? Or will the growing reality of empowering parents actually transform education over the coming years into a system that respond to the needs and desires of society and its[Read More…]
Peter Hanley: Wishing for a realistic view of testing
Editor’s note: Peter Hanley is executive director of the American Center for School Choice. I wish we could have a more sophisticated, more realistic discussion of testing in our education reform debate. We do not yet have testing right, but the noise, much of it irrelevant to constructive dialogue, is[Read More…]
Parental choice would honor the Dream
Editor’s note: This is the third post in our series commemorating the 50th anniversary of Dr. King’s Dream speech. It was January 18th, the Saturday of the MLK weekend in 1997, when I printed out the “I Have a Dream” speech. I’m not completely sure why, except that I was[Read More…]
National conference will focus on faith-based schools
As the fight to restore the ability of families to choose the school that best meets their children’s needs proceeds across the country, the future of urban faith-based schools that have served communities for decades remains in serious doubt. Often these schools have been the only choice available to families[Read More…]
Tough-minded approach needed for Obama’s pre-K expansion
I am more politically incorrect than your average guy, so when I heard President Obama call for universal pre-K for 4-year olds in the State of the Union, I cringed. With all the raucous enthusiasm ringing around this issue since the speech, adapting Warren Buffet’s investment approach to public policy[Read More…]
Highlighting the value of faith-based schools – and the void when they close
“I am heartbroken,” was Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor’s response upon hearing that her Catholic alma mater, Blessed Sacrament School in the Bronx, would be among the 24 latest Catholic schools to close in an impoverished area. She continued in her New York Times interview to describe it as “symbolic[Read More…]