Sparking the evolution of education choice
Editor’s note: This commentary from Travis Pillow, an innovation fellow and senior writer at the Center on Reinventing Public Education, appeared Monday on the Thomas B. Fordham Institute’s website. From 2015 to 2018, the start of spring meant I could expect to hear from parents across Florida. At the time,[Read More…]
A new online survey of 1,000 registered voters reveals that 51% of respondents think school choice programs provide better educational opportunities for students. According to the Scott Rasmussen survey, conducted Jan. 19-20, 19% of respondents do not believe that school choice provides better opportunities; 30% of respondents said they were[Read More…]
Editor’s note: This commentary from former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush appeared Friday on wsj.com. It shouldn’t surprise anyone: I’m a proud Floridian. It’s the state I’ve long called home, where I raised my family and gratefully served two terms as governor. It’s also why I’m proud to boast about a[Read More…]
In honor of 2023’s National School Choice Week, the Cato Institute published one of the first comprehensive timelines of school choice. Because opponents still seek to delegitimize school choice by accusing the movement of having nefarious origins, it’s more important now than ever to establish its true history, one that[Read More…]
Silicon Valley homeschool mom Samantha Cook had this to say to Wired magazine in 2015: “The world is changing. It’s looking for people who are creative and entrepreneurial, and that’s not going to happen in a system that tells kids what to do all day … So how do you[Read More…]
Editor’s note: This interview, conducted by Robert Pondiscio, a senior visiting fellow at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, with Ashley Berner, director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy, appeared last week on the institute’s website. Last week, two more states—Iowa and Utah—joined Arizona and West Virginia in adopting universal[Read More…]
Melissa Ley left her job as a teacher at a public school to let her daughters learn at home after determining the public schools they attended were not the best fit for them. At the time, Ley’s family didn’t qualify for an education choice scholarship, so she enrolled the girls[Read More…]
Editor’s note: This article appeared Thursday on redlion.com. The South Carolina Senate approved a bill this week granting 15,000 students access to education savings accounts. “There will be children whose lives will be changed for the better because of this bill,” Sen. Greg Hembree, R-District 28, chair of the Senate[Read More…]
