In the second of a two-part interview, Tuthill and 50CAN’s executive vice president discuss the organization’s advocacy for federal funding to build new education infrastructure and its goal of giving individuals power and money to shift the future of public education toward greater diversity and choice. Tuthill and Bradford also[Read More…]
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podcastED: SUFS president Doug Tuthill interviews education choice advocate Derrell Bradford: Part 1
In the first of a two-part conversation, Tuthill talks with the charismatic executive vice president of 50CAN, a national advocacy organization that supports education choice policies on a state-by-state basis. Bradford’s straightforward analysis of complex education issues has earned him a sterling reputation in the education choice world, but his[Read More…]
‘Emergency mindset’ needed to address education inequities
As the first full year of schooling during the coronavirus pandemic launches, a national education advocacy network is sounding the alarm in a research brief that America’s K-12 education system is in crisis. To ensure a more flexible, equitable and student-centered system of education both now and post-pandemic, the independent[Read More…]
Charter school advocates issue ‘call to action’ on virtual charters
States need to overhaul the way they fund and regulate online charter schools and rein in “large-scale underperformance,” a new report argues. The argument isn’t coming from the usual anti-charter school suspects. The report was released this morning by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, the National Association of[Read More…]
The state of education advocacy: Jim Blew, podcastED
All over the country, new private school choice programs are being created, more of the last remaining holdout states are beginning to allow charter schools, and a growing number of students are enrolling in educational options chosen by their parents. But, on our latest podcast, Jim Blew, who served as the[Read More…]
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