Opinion
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New Standards Proposed for Teacher Preparation
Opinion -WASHINGTON -- The proponents of a national system of preparing and licensing teachers for America's K-12 classrooms spared no hyperbole in a recent news conference here, unveiling revised National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) -
The Lemon Test
Opinion -In Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971), the U.S. Supreme Court established a three-pronged test to determine whether a law violates the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which bars any law "respecting an establishment of religion." 1. -
School Choice Moves Forward in Indiana
Opinion -NEW HARMONY, IN--The movement to achieve increased choice in education for Indiana parents took a significant step forward in late May, when more than 150 parents, state and community leaders, and school choice activists gathered at a symposium in New -
Voucher Threat Lifts Florida Schools
Opinion -The sharp improvement in student achievement at Florida's 78 failing public schools has shattered claims that competition does not work in education, and that private school vouchers will hurt public schools and the students "left behind" in them. -
Teacher Certification: Guarantee or Joke?
Opinion -"[T]eacher certification procedures are a joke! . . . [They] don’t distinguish between those who can and those who cannot teach. They’re a series of bureaucratic routines, which some say serve only to keep talented people out of teaching. -
School Choice Arguments in Court
Opinion -The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held oral arguments on the Cleveland school choice program in Cincinnati on June 20. -
Let’s Do What’s Best for the Child: an interview with J.C. Watts Jr.
Opinion -“We have to come to the table minus our egos and minus these ideological frames of mind that we get into and say, ‘Let's do what's best for the child. -
Ensuring the Success of Your School Crisis Plan
Opinion -The Heartland Institute is pleased to welcome as a regular School Reform News columnist Robert Macy, director of community services for the Trauma Center in Boston, Massachusetts. -
08/2000 State Education Roundup
Opinion -California * District of Columbia * Georgia * Illinois * Kansas Louisiana * Maryland * Massachusetts * New Jersey * Pennsylvania Texas * Utah * Washington * Wyoming CALIFORNIA Ousting Union Brings $525 Raise Teachers in the small -
Anti-Voucher Predictions Off the Mark
Opinion -"This bill sends out the message, 'the public schools have failed and nothing can fix them,'" said Jack Lieberman, president of the American Jewish Congress Southeast Region, one of the organizations that has sued to halt Florida’s voucher program. -
Court OKs Neutral Aid to Religious Schools
Opinion -In its most important ruling on school choice to date, the U.S. Supreme Court on June 28 handed down a splintered 6-3 ruling in the Mitchell v. -
Lie Often. It Works
Opinion -Why are falsehoods about voucher programs re-issued long after they have been shown to be inaccurate and misleading? -
School Choice Nuggets
Opinion -Starting with this issue, School Reform News will be working with the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation to include news from the Foundation's new monthly Friedman Report, which provides a state-by-state roundup of school choice developments. -
Florida Expands Vouchers to Disabled
Opinion -In May, Florida legislators approved a bill that would dramatically expand the nation's first statewide voucher program to include some 350,000 students who have learning disabilities, mental or physical handicaps, or other exceptional needs. -
Will Federal ‘Help’ Stifle Charters?
Opinion -WASHINGTON -- The federal government may be able to encourage further explosive growth of charter schools in subtle ways, but it must avoid "loving charters to death" by swaddling them in re-regulation. -
Charter School Growth Slows
Opinion -While charter schools remain the nation's fastest-growing school reform model of the past decade, the rate of formation of new schools slowed significantly in the first year of the new century, dashing President Clinton's hopes of seeing 3,000 charter -
Polls Show Majority Support for Vouchers
Opinion -Recent polls in two states show a significant level of support for school vouchers--publicly funded scholarships that families may use to help pay for their children's education at the school of their choice, whether that school is public, private, -
Court Power Grab in Ohio
Opinion -According to a slim state supreme court majority, Ohio's system of funding its public schools depends too much on local property taxes. On May 11, in a 4-3 decision, the court found the state’s education funding formula unconstitutional. -
A Sampling of Homeschooling Resources
Opinion -ORGANIZATIONS Home School Legal Defense Association 17333 Pickwick Drive Purcellville, VA 20132 540/338-5600 http://www.hslda.org HSLDA is an advocacy group offering legal advice and representation in homeschool court cases. -
Voucher Schools Keep Costs Low
Opinion -While the annual cost per student in the Milwaukee Public Schools is about $9,500, many of the private schools that participate in the city's voucher program had trouble spending even half that amount, according to audits filed with the Wisconsin state -
Choice Leaders Celebrate Triumphs
Opinion -"When Americans are exposed to the idea of school choice, they react positively," said Robert Enlow, vice president of the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation, which has conducted extensive research on public attitudes toward choice. -
With ACLU, All Things May Be Prohibited
Opinion -A three-judge panel of the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ruled on April 25 that Ohio's motto, "With God, all things are possible," violates the United States Constitution as a government establishment of religion. -
School Choice Surges in the States
Opinion -"What is the problem [in American education]? We have not devised a method to make learning occur at a universally high level. And that's what the voucher people argue. They argue that is because public schools have a monopoly on revenues and customers. -
Will Ohio’s Children Benefit from the DeRolph Ruling?
Opinion -How have children fared following other lawsuits like Ohio's DeRolph, where courts have deemed unconstitutional disparities between public schools that result from different levels of local spending by districts?
