Detroit Free Press editor and columnist Stephen Henderson gives us a look today into a collection of schools that showcases how the Motor City’s school system was innovative long before it reached meltdown status and long before it was forced to compete with a proliferation of charter schools. Cornerstone schools, Henderson[Read More…]
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Interest spiking in Indiana voucher program
by Kenya Woodard While a group of educators and clergy are challenging Indiana’s voucher law in court, more than 125 schools have submitted applications to participate in the program, according to The Associated Press. About 80 have been admitted to the program, considered one of the most sweeping voucher efforts in[Read More…]
Superman didn’t come here
For two months, the leaders of Rice High School in Harlem, challenged by a six-figure operating deficit and a 44 percent enrollment decline over seven years, have searched for ways to keep the boys preparatory school open. This wasn’t just another financially struggling Catholic school. This was a financially struggling[Read More…]
A genuine and independent choice for Catholic education
It’s time to test that language. I hope that a Catholic school will soon apply to become a Catholic charter school, get turned down, and sue in federal court claiming this rejection is a violation of the Zelman decision. If the Supreme Court logically extended its precedent to Catholic charter schools, then the future of U.S. Catholic education would be secure.