On Saturday, the NAACP’s board approved its resolution calling for a moratorium on new charter schools. Here’s a worthwhile response from Charles Cole, III: I am a member of the NAACP and contrary to many other black folks; I do have a profound respect for them and what they are meant[Read More…]
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The week in school choice: Now it’s personalized
Facing tricky political calculus, Nevada’s governor is convening state lawmakers for a special session that won’t address the funding issue at the heart of a state Supreme Court ruling that blocked one of the nation’s most ambitious educational choice programs. A funding fix may now have to wait until next year’s[Read More…]
The week in school choice: Winning in court
Nevada’s Supreme Court blocked one of the country’s most ambitious educational choice programs, finding its funding mechanism unconstitutional. But in many ways, the outcome is actually a win for the state’s policymakers and thousands of families waiting to use education savings accounts. The ruling could even help bolster the constitutional[Read More…]
The week in school choice: Ugly history
The history of American public education is messy, and at times, ugly. “We do not refuse anyone on account of race,” Orange Park Normal and Industrial School principal Amos W. Farnham wrote to William N. Sheats in the spring of 1894. In a letter to Sheats, Florida’s top education official,[Read More…]
The week in school choice: The Florida approach
The court battle over the nation’s largest private school choice program isn’t over. The statewide teachers union wants to bring the lawsuit challenging Florida’s tax credit scholarships* to the state Supreme Court. The legal fight reflects a national divide over civil rights and the future of public education. The NAACP has historically[Read More…]
The week in school choice: Good news
Let’s start this off with some good news. The enormous gap in academic performance between high- and low-income children has begun to narrow. Children entering kindergarten today are more equally prepared than they were in the late 1990s. We know this from information collected over the last two decades by[Read More…]
The week in school choice: The rights of children
Less than a week ago, California’s high court dealt a pair of blows to efforts to improve public education through litigation, declining to hear cases dealing with funding equity and the state’s teacher tenure laws. The next day, backers of the tenure fight moved into a new arena, arguing in federal[Read More…]
This week in school choice: Stop generalizing about charter schools
This week, Nat Malkus of the American Enterprise Institute examined the national debate over charter schools: These political contests hinge on two competing narratives about what charters are and who they serve. Opponents often paint charters as public-privates that skirt public accountability and select the most advantaged students for their schools.[Read More…]