School Reform News : Issue Archive

  • December 2006 School Reform News

    The December 2006 issue of School Reform News leads with Managing Editor Karla Dial's report on the November election results and their potential impact on school choice. Also on page 1: Illinois...

  • November 2006 School Reform News

    The November 2006 issue of School Reform News reports California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed in September the nation's first law altering union contracts that protect experienced teachers and...

  • October 2006 School Reform News

    The October 2006 issue of School Reform News leads with a report on the status of universal preschool measures. California voters and Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney have rejected such plans, while...

  • September 2006 School Reform News

    The September 2006 back-to-school issue of School Reform News features on page 1 school choice from Arizona to Washington, DC: Federal legislators and U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings...

  • July 2006 School Reform News

    The July 2006 issue of School Reform News features a wide range of education reform proposals. On page 1: Texas legislators believe they have addressed a 2005 state supreme court ruling with a...

  • June 2006 School Reform News

    The June 2006 issue of School Reform News reports on state efforts to raise the bar on high school graduation standards--to better prepare students for the world beyond high school--and efforts in...

  • May 2006 School Reform News

    The May 2006 issue of School Reform News reports that Arizona, Ohio, Utah, and Wisconsin expanded their school choice offerings, giving more students access to schools better-suited to their needs....

  • April 2006 School Reform News

    The April 2006 issue of School Reform News leads with news from Florida, where 4,000 parents, students, and educators gathered at the state capitol in Tallahassee to rally in support of the state’s...

  • March 2006 School Reform News

    The March 2006 issue of School Reform News leads with coverage of President George W. Bush's FY 2007 budget, which includes private school "Opportunity Scholarships" among other key education...

  • January 2006 School Reform News

    The January 2006 issue of School Reform News highlights cyber education: the federal e-rate program, online physical education programs and cyber charter schools. On page 1: a new Congressional...

  • December 2005 School Reform News

    Page 1 of the December 2005 issue of School Reform News reports substantial good news for school choice advocates across the country. The Florida tax credit program is growing, the Milwaukee voucher...

  • November 2005 School Reform News

    The November 2005 issue of School Reform News features several articles on the education community's response to Hurricane Katrina. President George W. Bush has proposed emergency school vouchers as...

  • October 2005 School Reform News

    The October 2005 issue of School Reform News addresses a wide range of topics, including innovative preschool and home school programs, special education and early intervention, public school choice...

  • September 2005 School Reform News

    The September 2005 issue of School Reform News reports Ohio Gov. Robert Taft has signed into law a new statewide voucher program for students in failing schools. The measure also expands the...

  • July 2005 School Reform News

    The July 2005 issue of School Reform News reports both good news and bad news on the school choice front nationwide. On page 1: More than 2,000 parents, teachers, and school administrators rallied...

  • June 2005 School Reform News

    The June issue of School Reform News offers updates on school choice legislation being debated in nearly a dozen states. On page 1: South Carolina legislators tabled a bill proposing tax credits...

  • May 2005 School Reform News

    The May 2005 issue of School Reform News highlights school choice efforts nationwide, including a new school voucher program for special-needs students in Utah and a federal court's approval of...

  • April 2005 School Reform News

    A report published in April 2004 by Sister Dale McDonald for the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) indicates that during the 2003-04 school year, 123 Catholic schools nationwide were "...

  • March 2005 School Reform News

    The top story in the March 2005 issue of School Reform News reports on a lawsuit filed January 27 by three Atlanta families charging the state of Georgia has failed failing to provide their children...

  • February 2005 School Reform News

    High school students in the U.S. have a poorer understanding of basic math concepts than their counterparts in most other leading industrialized nations, according to international test results...

  • January 2005 School Reform News

    The January 2005 issue of School Reform News leads with a report on the latest setback for Florida's five-year-old Opportunity Scholarship program, which was struck down on November 12 by the state's...

  • December 2004 School Reform News

    The December issue of School Reform News features an exclusive interview with Mae and Martin Duggan, who founded Citizens for Educational Freedom (CEF)--the first organization established to promote...

  • November 2004 School Reform News

    The November 2004 issue of School Reform News features an interview with Lydia Segal, author of Battling Corruption in America's Public Schools, recently released by Northeast University Press and...

  • October 2004 School Reform News

    Although many Florida's citizens use public funds to purchase child care and other services from a range of providers that include religious institutions, the First District Court of Appeals in...

  • September 2004 School Reform News

    The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Arizona's pioneering school choice tax credits--which have already passed constitutional muster in the state supreme court--can be challenged in federal court as...