Sparking the evolution of education choice
A recent protest of Elizabeth Warren’s education plan staged by a group of charter school parents at an event in Atlanta – which happened to include civil rights activist and education reform advocate Dr. Howard Fuller – resulted in a conversation between the senator and the parents that caused quite[Read More…]
Editor’s Note: This is the tenth and final of a series of posts where various members of the education choice world share an #edchoice wish. For yesterday’s post, CLICK HERE. My wish this holiday season is that this nation re-embrace the concept of “politics makes strange bedfellows,” which used to be a well-known adage[Read More…]
When it comes to school choice, black parents have more in common with Betsy DeVos than the white progressives trying to sink her bid to be U.S. Secretary of Education.
When Howard Fuller hears criticisms of fellow school choice advocate Betsy DeVos, he may hear echoes from his own past. Before he became superintendent of Milwaukee Public Schools, Fuller had called for breaking up the school district and helped organize parents in favor of a school voucher program. He had never[Read More…]
When he first came on the scene, he was in and out of prison, recording freestyles with his cousins in Southern California. But more than two decades after he first made it big, parents no longer fear him. He’s at home in Katy Perry videos and Old Navy commercials. In[Read More…]
The population of students attending private schools has gotten whiter nationwide, even as the proportion of Black and Hispanic students in public schools has grown, according to a new report. But the report overlooks some compelling evidence that private school choice programs, particularly those aimed at low-income families, could mitigate[Read More…]
The country’s leading black-led education reform organization could be in for some major changes after 2016. The Black Alliance for Educational Options announced changes were coming in a letter to supporters on Friday, but provided few details on what the future would hold. Howard Fuller, the chairman emeritus of the organization,[Read More…]
Note: This is the third in a series of podcast interviews on Nevada’s new education savings account program. We previously spoke with Seth Rau here and Matthew Ladner here. Ever since social justice advocates joined forces with free-market conservatives to create the groundbreaking Milwaukee Parental Choice program in the early[Read More…]
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