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Peter H. Hanley
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11/13/15 | Peter H. Hanley
Clinton drinks anti-charter school Kool-Aid
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...
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12/22/14 | 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...
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03/12/14 | Peter H. Hanley
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...
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12/31/13 | Peter H. Hanley
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...
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08/28/13 | Peter H. Hanley
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...
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05/01/13 | Peter H. Hanley
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...
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02/25/13 | Peter H. Hanley
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....
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02/08/13 | Peter H. Hanley
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...
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12/31/12 | Peter H. Hanley
Wishing for better schools of education
I wish the education reform movement would put more focus on the broken schools of education that fail to attract highly qualified students or to train them to perform well...
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12/26/12 | Peter H. Hanley
Wishing for awareness about the value of faith-based schools
I wish faith-based schools, many of which have served urban communities and low-income families admirably for decades, could be seen more as partners than outsiders in a system of 21st...
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11/13/12 | Peter H. Hanley
In Obama’s Term 2, a historic opportunity to expand parental school choice
President Obama has often called on us to be true to who we are as a people, as Americans. And in his second term, he has the opportunity to transform...
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08/24/12 | Peter H. Hanley
Diane Ravitch goes off the rails
After more than a decade working in education reform I learned long ago that if I stopped to kick every snapping dog along the pathway, I would never arrive where...
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06/26/12 | Peter H. Hanley
Zelman’s significance grows as school choice battles rage on
Editor’s note: This is the second of two posts we’re running this week to commemorate the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris. As we commemorate the 10th...
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05/31/12 | Peter H. Hanley
Romney can move the ball on school choice – if he leads
Mitt Romney’s white paper on education, “A Chance for Every Child,” offers laudable support for increased parental choice and for other changes, such as tenure reform, that must occur to...
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05/25/12 | Peter H. Hanley
California goes to court for education reform
At every crossroads toward the future, it’s been said, tradition will post 10,000 people to guard the past. For frustrated Californians that see the need for significant change in the...
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05/14/12 | Peter H. Hanley
California’s toe in the water on school “vouchers”?
Editor’s note: Progress in the parental school choice movement is measured not only by big gains in states like Indiana and Louisiana, but by the flurry of incremental developments in more...
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04/26/12 | Peter H. Hanley
Not the “common school” myth again!
The assertion that school choice somehow exacerbates segregation and separatism in American society surprises me every time it pops up. The ideal of traditional public education, a “common school” available...
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03/26/12 | Peter H. Hanley
When it comes to expanded school choice, even national security warnings don’t move the status quo
As a former U.S. Commerce Department Foreign Service officer, as well as someone who worked extensively in international trade and economic policy earlier in my career, I was especially interested...
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