Tag: education reform
Get thee behind me, Bootlegger!
Longtime NextSteps readers know that your humble author has been holding forth on the Baptist and Bootlegger problem that helped throttle the growth of the charter school movement. The term “Baptists and Bootleggers” comes from economics and references prohibition, which Baptists supported out of religious conviction, and bootleggers supported to... READ MOREUtah education choice champions look to state Supreme Court to find the floor and save ESA program
In the 1949 Looney Tunes short “Mouse Wreckers,” two mind-manipulating...
READ MORETeachers give anti-ESA propaganda a failing grade
Opponents of education freedom, facing a series of legislative defeats,...
READ MOREThe systemic improvements public education needs are coming
Student achievement has fallen to its worst levels in two...
READ MORECeilings and floors and Florida (Oh my!)
Editor’s note: This story has been updated with the...
READ MORELessons from SNAP wargames
On Dec. 16, 2017, the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture...
READ MOREOpen enrollment is the King Kong of Arizona district enrollment loss
If you look at enrollment trends in the Arizona districts...
READ MORETexas 2025 debate resurrects Edgewood Horizon claims
The current debate over ESAs in Texas has brought irresponsible...
READ MOREIn the most school choice rich state in America, 1 in 5 Black students now enrolled outside district schools
Three decades ago, dozens of Black families in the Liberty...
READ MOREWhy school systems fail
Authors Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson distinguished between “inclusive”...
READ MOREDistricts are leading Florida’s generational education transformation
A generation ago, Florida’s school districts could safely assume that...
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