Opinion
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05/2000 State Education Roundup
Opinion -California * District of Columbia * Illinois * Kentucky * Louisiana * Massachusetts Nevada * New Hampshire * New Jersey * Ohio * Oklahoma * Texas * Washington CALIFORNIA School Bond Initiative Fails California voters turned out on Super -
Wis. Choice Evaluator Endorses Vouchers
Opinion -A researcher whose credibility has been touted by school choice opponents since the early days of the Milwaukee voucher program has endorsed the use of vouchers not only to provide educational choices to poor families, but also to provide needed -
The Demonization of Parochial Schools
Opinion -In his 1979 book, Schooled to Order: A Social History of Public Schooling in the United States, David Nasaw recounts how the textbooks used in the common schools in the mid-1800s were "viciously anti-Irish and anti-Catholic. -
Blacks Leaders on a Mission for Parent Power
Opinion -More than 300 African-Americans from 26 states gathered in Milwaukee recently for an annual conference that is building a national movement for school choice and outlining reforms necessary to enhance educational options for low-income minority -
Using Witte against Vouchers
Opinion -The Web site of the National Education Association features an April 1997 report called "The School Voucher Experiment in Milwaukee: Success or Failure?" The report holds up John F. -
Lifelong Learning Plan Hijacked for Clinton Day Care
Opinion -Private-sector child care providers fear being put out of business by the dramatic growth of 21st Century Community Learning Centers, a Department of Education program that has grown far beyond its original intent of boosting lifelong learning -
New Laws Help English Learners
Opinion -In the wake of court rulings upholding Proposition 227--which California voters approved to effectively end most of the state's bilingual education programs--a number of innovative new laws have been passed to further benefit the state's English -
How Are the Children?
Opinion -In Kenya, the response to the traditional Masai greeting of "How are the children?" is "All the children are well. -
What Do Parents Choose?
Opinion -If parents were given the power to choose schools for their children, would they make wise choices? -
How Community Learning Was Morphed into Child Care
Opinion -Providing children with expanded learning opportunities in a safe, drug-free, and supervised environment is a laudable goal . . . but it isn't one of the goals set by the legislation controlling 21st Century Community Learning Centers. -
Delivering on the Promise of Equal Educational Opportunity: an interview with Joseph P. Viteritti
Opinion -“School choice is fundamentally an ethical moral issue, an issue of social justice. It is a sense of moral outrage that will eventually change public policy. It's not research; it's not regression analysis. -
Colorado Groups Seek School Choice Options
Opinion -Two new grassroots group of parents and community leaders met at the State Capitol in Denver on March 15 to share ideas on political activism and to show their support for a pilot school choice program they had designed for Colorado. -
Earobics Literacy Software Wins Parents’ Choice Award
Opinion -Earlier this year, the Parents' Choice organization awarded its 1999 Parents' Choice "Approved" Award to Earobics Step 2, a software package for teaching early literacy skills. -
Fighting for Control over Children
Opinion -Power Comes First When the income of a business is threatened by the loss of customers to a competitor offering better service at lower cost, a number of responses are possible, from aggressively topping the competitor's offering to simply hoping -
Gore: Private Schools Are Un-American
Opinion -Appearing with children in a recent campaign ad for the Democratic Presidential nomination, Vice President Al Gore said private schools "are fine, but not with money designated for public schools where 90 percent of our American children go. -
How Long Must We Wait?
Opinion -While voucher opponents applauded Judge L. Ralph Smith Jr. -
Incentives Needed for Schools to Improve
Opinion -If competition from charter schools is to force greater reform in public schools, there must be a clearer link between enrollment and dollars, according to a recent study of charter schools by SUNY/Stony Brook researchers. -
New Audit of Milwaukee Program
Opinion -In February, Wisconsin's Legislative Audit Bureau released a new 174-page audit of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, detailing the history of the program, its annual cost, annual enrollment, current enrollment by grade, and ethnic composition of -
Shucking Off Paternalism
Opinion -If school choice has become the new civil rights movement, why is it that many traditional civil rights groups, such as the NAACP, join in lawsuits opposing the empowerment of low-income minority parents with school vouchers? -
Students Already Fleeing Failing Schools
Opinion -Under a private school choice program, the loss of just 53 Florida public school students to private schools served as a wake-up call for improvement to public schools throughout the state. -
The Drain Refrain: A Challenge for Private Education
Opinion -These are exciting times for private education. It's difficult to turn on the TV or pick up a newspaper without seeing a story about the success of private schools. -
Vouchers Leverage Change for Remaining Students
Opinion -Although just 53 Florida students used vouchers to transfer from public to private schools under the A+ Plan last year, at a cost of less than $200,000, the shift of those few students appears to have jolted many of the state's public schools into -
Will the 106th Congress Promote School Choice?
Opinion -Congress has engaged in a flurry of school-choice activity in recent years--and it's likely to continue. -
U.S. Senate, Massachusetts Consider Bilingual Ed Reform
Opinion -As it deliberates reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the U.S. Senate is considering unprecedented reform of federal bilingual education programs.
