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Charter School Growth Slows As Opposition Intensifies
Opinion -This fall, 2,700 charter schools are in operation across the nation, serving more than a half-million students. That’s the good news. -
12/2002 The Friedman Report: Billions for School Choice
Opinion -States Spend Billions on Private and Out-of-State Schools School Year 1999-2000 State Tuition to Out-of-State and Private Schools ($000) As a % of Total State Instructional Expenses United States $2,231,271 1.1% Alabama $1,547 0. -
Larger Districts Are Less Efficient
Opinion -Rather than benefitting from economies of scale with larger school districts, a 1999 study for the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution by Mike Antonucci concludes the American public school system suffers instead from “penalties of scale. -
Table: Revenues for Public Elementary and Secondary Schools
Opinion -Revenues for Public Elementary and Secondary Schools, by Source and State School Year 1999-2000 WHERE THE MONEY COMES FROM WHERE THE MONEY GOES Share of Total Revenues Share of Total Expenditures Total Revenues ($000) Local -
Accountability and Choice: Each Depends on the Other: an exclusive interview with Chester E. Finn Jr.
Opinion -“I believe that the standards and accountability strategy for education reform coexists and may even be co-dependent with the freedom and competition strategy. -
High-Poverty Students Excel with Direct Instruction
Opinion -In successful high-poverty and high-minority schools in California, the predominant teaching method is direct instruction, where student learning is directed by and centered on the teacher. -
History a Mystery to American Youth
Opinion -A Harvard educator who wants to awaken America’s young to the inspiring power of heroism in American history has found that schools and the culture instead give students a “sour and suspicious” view of their national heritage. -
12/2002 The Friedman Report: School Choice Roundup
Opinion -Illinois * Indiana * Michigan * New York * Ohio * Vermont ILLINOIS Churches Organize Forums on Vouchers The Illinois Conference of Churches has organized a series of public forums throughout the state to discuss the possibility of a publicly -
12/2002 The Friedman Report: C.A.R.E. of Dallas Shows Parents a “New World”
Opinion -Choices and Actions Regarding Education--C.A.R.E.--is a Dallas, Texas-based advocacy group that focuses on Hispanic parents. C.A.R.E. was founded in September 2001--yes, the same month as the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C. -
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IJ Launches School Choice Offensive
Opinion -After the U.S. Supreme Court awarded control of the constitutional battlefield to voucher advocates on June 27, the Institute for Justice didn’t waste time celebrating the victory. -
Just the Facts: Sources and Uses of Public Education Dollars
Opinion -Total expenditures on U.S. K-12 public education and other related programs in the 1999-2000 school year were $381.9 billion, up an impressive $26.1 billion, or 7.3 percent, from 1998-99. Total revenues for the same period were 97. -
National Elections Bring School Choice Advocates to the Forefront
Opinion -The school choice community will lose two of its Congressional champions when House of Representatives Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas) and Rep. Bob Schaffer (R-Colorado) retire at the end of this session. -
To Improve, Public Schools Need Competition, Not More Money
Opinion -State Education Superintendent Robert E. Schiller must think Illinois taxpayers are pretty gullible if he thinks he can sell the idea that our public schools need more money to produce better results (Voice of the People, November 9, 2002). -
Still No Choice for Poor and Minority Students
Opinion -Millions of children were left behind as the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) reform began to take effect this fall. -
Already Booming, Tutoring Receives Large NCLB Boost
Opinion -In search of the best possible education, Americans already spend more than $5 billion a year on private tutoring. -
Declining Literacy a Threat to Newspapers
Opinion -U.S. newspapers have a life-or-death interest in schoolchildren being taught how to read and becoming motivated to read regularly. The trends are not encouraging—for literacy or for newspapers. -
Ballot Initiatives Used to Reform Bilingual Education
Opinion -Theodore Roosevelt, the country’s 26th President, was a firm believer in the ballot initiative as an instrument “not to destroy representative government, but to correct it whenever it becomes misrepresentative. -
NEA September 11 Web Site Draws Criticism
Opinion -An essay recommending parents and educators not “suggest any group is responsible” for last year’s terrorist attack on the World Trade Center brought the National Education Association’s new Web site, “Remember September 11th,” under heavy criticism from -
Paige Backs Parental Choice at Meeting of State Legislators
Opinion -On August 8, U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige addressed a large and supportive audience of state elected officials at the American Legislative Exchange Council’s 29th Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida. -
10/2002 The Friedman Report and School Choice Roundup
Opinion -BAEO Leader Wants Parents “Overwhelmed” with Opportunities by Laura J. -
Ready or Not, Education Is Changing
Opinion -More than 360 education entrepreneurs, investors, computer specialists, writers, foundation staff, and policy experts gathered on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia on July 25-27 for the EDVentures 2002 Conference, organized by -
Entrepreneurial Leadership Award
Opinion -AEPP’s 2002 James P. Boyle Entrepreneurial Leadership Award was presented to Dr. Ellyn Lerner, president of KIDS 1, Inc., which operates specialized private schools and related services for students facing learning and social challenges. -
Hold Schools Accountable for Cost of Finished Graduate
Opinion -U.S. taxpayers paid on average $108,730 to produce each 1998 high school graduate.
