Sparking the evolution of education choice
Private schools. The principal of Seminole High in Pinellas is leaving to take the top job at Indian Rocks Christian. Gradebook. Charter schools. Funding for charters, vouchers and tax credit scholarships figure into Duval’s budget considerations. First Coast News. Kiera Wilmot. Mom: “We’ve been a living a nightmare.” Orlando Sentinel.[Read More…]
Apart from Jeb Bush’s comments at a panel discussion yesterday, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie offered the RNC’s most extensive comments yet on education in a speech late last night. Full speech here. Coverage here. Education excerpts here: They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics. To[Read More…]
New Jersey employs a brand of education politics that is not renowned for its nuance or subtlety, so let’s credit New Jersey Education Association Director Vincent Giordano with raising the bar. In an interview on the New Jersey Capitol Report over the weekend, Giordano was pressed on the timely subject of a legislative proposal there to[Read More…]
Writing in the newest edition of The Washington Monthly, Barry C. Lynn says unions need to find common ground with entrepreneurs as a counterbalance to the centralized power of large monopolies. Here’s the crux of his argument, which has relevance for public education: … the great middle class of twentieth-century[Read More…]
