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We see two roads forward for education choice. Down the well-travelled road, we see the potential “charter-ization” of ...
Another slew of choice referendum defeats can be explained by an aversion to losing what’s in hand over gaining something new ...
Kansas public school advocates and advocates of school choice have taken to the Kansas Statehouse this week. At a Tuesday ...
School bureaucrats and teachers' unions say that "choice takes money away from public schools!" But that's not true. Government schools now spend about $20,000 per student.
"School choice has never—at least not that I can think of—been approved in a popular vote," says Neal McCluskey, the director of The Cato Institute's Center for Educational Freedom.
Voters repealed a similar school choice bill just three months ago on the November ballot by 57%. "I'm asking you today not to give up on us and to support us in our education," said Rylee Rivera ...
Voters rejected ballot measures related to school-choice policies in Colorado, Kentucky and Nebraska. Some of the measures would have opened the door to public financing for private school tuition ...
In 1999-2000, the year Indiana passed the first school choice legislation, 11.6% of students attended private schools.. In the 2023-24 school year, that dropped to 8.2%.
But that is just one type of "school choice." School choice is a broad term that refers to policies allowing families to select alternatives to their assigned public school districts.
School choice expanded in 2011, when North Carolina’s General Assembly lifted the 100-school limit on charter schools. These publicly-funded schools are authorized by the state and run by ...
The fight for school choice has been long and grueling, but it has been worthwhile. Although there is still work to be done, we are already seeing promising results nationwide.