After going 56 years without attending a national political convention, I’m headed to Charlotte for my second convention in a week. For school choice advocates, the Democratic National Convention will be a somewhat hostile environment, unlike last week’s Republican National Convention in Tampa, where all forms of school choice were[Read More…]
Tag: Bill Clinton and charter schools
Ed reform’s hopeful revolutionaries
“This should be a moment of renaissance in education in America.” – President Bill Clinton, keynote speaker, KIPP School Summit 2012 Advocating for students isn’t easy. Reform opponents regularly engage in ad hominem and anonymous attacks, tactics they condemn in others. The vitriol and anger they express are unworthy of the[Read More…]
Bill Clinton: KIPP charter schools have “solved the No. 1 challenge in American education”
Former President Bill Clinton praised charter schools at the KIPP Summit in Orlando last week, singling out the KIPP chain for success with high-poverty students and because it has “proved that you can replicate excellence.” “I wish there were 10 times or 100 times as many KIPP schools because you have[Read More…]