Sparking the evolution of education choice
Editor’s note: This post was originally published on realcleareducation.com. The author, Jude Schwalbach, is an education policy analyst at Reason Foundation. After an Arizona citizens’ referendum failed to block the state’s massive expansion of Empowerment Scholarship Accounts last month, the Grand Canyon State now leads the nation in education customization. Arizona’s education savings account[Read More…]
“I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career.[Read More…]
Editor’s note: This article appeared today on weirtondailytimes.com. With oral arguments before the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals set for Oct. 4, Attorney General Patrick Morrisey filed his opening brief in the challenge to a permanent injunction blocking the state’s new Hope Scholarship program. In a press release Wednesday,[Read More…]
Editor’s note: This article appeared Tuesday on newjerseymonitor.com. Everything changed when Enzo Simonelli began attending fifth grade at Hudson Arts & Sciences Charter School in Kearny. Enzo went from a quiet student with low grades being bullied by other kids to joining the robotics club and loving school. But in[Read More…]
On Sept. 1, U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona claimed that the Biden administration had a plan to “focus on safely getting back to in-person learning” last year. On the same day, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that school re-openings were “the work of Democrats in spite of[Read More…]
Editor’s note: This article appeared Thursday on wvmetronews.com. West Virginia’s Supreme Court has taken over consideration of whether a scholarship for students leaving the public school system violates the state constitution. A majority of justices rejected a motion to stay a lower court’s decision to halt the Hope Scholarship, but[Read More…]
Backers of the Let MI Kids Learn petition drive, launched to establish a program in Michigan that would allow donors to contribute to a private scholarship fund and receive tax credits, say there are more than 520,000 signatures on the document filed Wednesday with the Bureau of Elections. The group,[Read More…]
Editor’s note: This article appeared last week on Baton Rouge’s wrkf.org. Across the country, a growing number of states are setting up state-funded education savings accounts, or ESAs, to give more students education opportunities outside of public schools. This year, Louisiana would have joined them if not for a pair[Read More…]
