Opinion
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Congress Returns to Tackle DC Vouchers, Other Thorny Votes
Opinion -As August recess dwindled away and Capitol Hill repopulated, Members and staff were abruptly reminded they had left town with many of the year’s thorniest education votes still before them. -
10/2003 Friedman Report Profile: A Convert to School Choice
Opinion -At one time, Missouri House Education Committee Chairwoman Jane Cunningham thought Mae Duggan, Missouri’s First Lady of school choice activism, was “nuts. -
Administrators Stonewall NCLB in Colorado
Opinion -Public school districts across the state of Colorado broke the law last year, failing to properly notify parents of essential information about a new federal law. -
How Tough Is Louisiana’s Math Exit Exam?
Opinion -Bridget Green’s failure to graduate high school because she persistently failed to pass Louisiana’s Graduate Exit Exam (GEE) prompted local test critic C.C. Campbell-Rock to imply the GEE was a tough test to pass. -
Paradoxical Ruling Appealed to Washington Supreme Court
Opinion -What if you had the right to assume people who refused to join your organization nevertheless wanted to support your political agenda? -
Study Shows Teacher Hiring Practices Need Work
Opinion -Is it low pay that causes the teaching profession to have so few males and minorities, as the nation’s largest teacher union contends? A convincing counter-argument can be made that it is the profession’s burdensome entry barriers--i.e. -
Vouchers Would Give Power to DC Parents
Opinion -The recent 209-208 vote by the U.S. -
Stage Set for DC Voucher Showdown
Opinion -The stage is nearly set for the final act of this year’s Congressional showdown on school vouchers for the District of Columbia. -
Choice Programs Remain Tiny and Restrictive
Opinion -Last summer, supporters of school choice hailed Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, the historic Supreme Court decision upholding Cleveland’s school choice program, as an important victory. -
Voucher Growth Depends on Schools Willing to Participate
Opinion -In Florida, leading Democratic lawmakers are making a concerted pitch to impose additional regulations, audits, and oversight on the hundreds of private schools that accept scholarships funded by the state’s corporate tax credit program. -
Wrong Start?
Opinion -Although supporters of Head Start and other preschool programs for underprivileged children maintain such efforts are a remarkably cost-effective way of raising student achievement in both the short term and the long term, the reality painted by -
Mixed Bag from the Nation’s Report Card
Opinion -Over the summer of ‘03, the Nation’s Report Card brought home tons of new data on the reading and writing prowess of America’s fourth-, eighth-, and 12th-graders. -
Commentary: Operation Educational Freedom
Opinion -We in Colorado are proud of becoming the first state to enact a voucher program since last year’s U.S. Supreme Court decision. -
09/2003 The Friedman Report: School Choice Roundup
Opinion -District of Columbia * Florida * New Jersey * New York Ohio * Oregon * Pennsylvania * Texas * Utah * Wisconsin DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Feinstein Endorses Voucher Proposal In an unexpected Washington Post editorial, California Democratic Senator -
Voices for School Reform
Opinion -During the past six and a half years, School Reform News has interviewed more than 60 school reform advocates. Although all of these interviews are available online, they are organized there only by date, perhaps not the most helpful structure. -
A Guide to State Regulation of Private Schools
Opinion -While parents may have the right to direct the education of their children in a private school, states still have the power to regulate those schools in various ways. What regulations are imposed in different states? -
NCLB Prompts Districts to Re-Examine Technology Plans
Opinion -Technology and K-12 Education While the past decade has seen entrepreneurs seize the new opportunities offered by a browsable Internet, low-cost connectivity, and cheap digital video devices to develop innovative cyberschools serving widely -
NEA’s ‘Technical Amendments’ Would Gut No Child Left Behind
Opinion -At a time when the nation is prosecuting its war on terrorism across four continents and chasing down deadly remnants of Iraqi armies, the National Education Association has chosen to battle against “federal requirements to make significant decisions -
States Are Providing More Choice Options
Opinion -Asking the questions is easy: How is school choice progressing? Overall? By state? Within a state? By type of program? Where do we have vouchers? Individual tax credits? Corporate tax credits? Charter schools? Who’s involved in my state? -
Push for Accountability Is Changing Public Education
Opinion -During the three days of the Education Industry Association’s annual conference, EDVentures 2003, the unmistakable mood of the almost 400 business representatives and educators who attended was one of optimism for the prospects of the entrepreneurial -
Head Start Reforms Meet Resistance
Opinion -On July 25, the House of Representatives voted 217-216 to approve H.R. 2210, the School Readiness Act. -
Diplomas Denied as Seniors Fail Exit Exams
Opinion -If students can’t pass a test on what they are supposed to have learned in school, should they still get a high school diploma? -
Ed Schools ‘Out of Touch’ with Public, Say Critics
Opinion -As debate heated up this summer over using federal aid to reform teacher preparation and licensing, a forum at the American Enterprise Institute moderated by Second Lady Lynne Cheney posed a provocative question: Can education schools be saved? -
Nonpublic Schools and the Courts
Opinion -David W. Kirkpatrick School Reform News is pleased to welcome back David W. Kirkpatrick as a contributing editor. Kirkpatrick is a senior education fellow with the U.S. Freedom Foundation, for which he writes a weekly education column.
