Opinion
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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. -
New Scholarship Programs Launched in St. Louis and Denver
Opinion -Inspired by last year’s overwhelming response from parents to the Children's Scholarship Fund, retired St. Louis businessman Eugene Williams and his wife Evie have donated $2.6 million toward the creation of a new $3.6 million fund, the St. -
Computers in K-12 Classrooms — Helpful, Hindrances, or Ornaments? interview with Andrew J. Coulson
Opinion -Public schooling: “a legally protected government monopoly bogged down by excessive regulation, protected from serious competition by its guaranteed tax funding base, bereft of the profit motive that spurs innovation and efficiency, and a pawn to -
Edison Schools Expanding Rapidly
Opinion -In February, Edison Schools, Inc. -
Who Determines Democrats’ Policy on Vouchers?
Opinion -Democrats oppose school choice not because the teacher unions oppose it, but because the American people overwhelmingly oppose it, claimed Vice President Al Gore during a recent debate with Bill Bradley at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. -
As Teachers, We Believe …
Opinion -All of the educators on the Teachers' Advisory Board of the Children's Scholarship Fund signed on to the following Statement of Principles: Children are the reason for a system of education, and that system's needs must never take precedence over -
Creating Partnerships
Opinion -"We have lost our focus on our core business of educating children," and one way to get that focus back is to outsource things we don't do well, maintains James Williams, former superintendent of the public school system in Dayton, Ohio. -
Vouchers Improve Academic Outcomes
Opinion -Since supporters of parental choice in education hold the moral high ground in the education reform debate, opponents have consistently attempted to shift the debate to secondary issues, such as cost and whether choice produces better outcomes. -
Shooting the Messenger
Opinion -When Judge Kenneth Starr agreed to become Special Prosecutor, he little suspected that his own professional integrity would be targeted for destruction in order to discredit the findings of his investigation of Bill and Hillary Clinton in the -
Magnet Schools Take Best Students
Opinion -While public school advocates demand that voucher schools take all students who apply so they cannot "skim the cream," the same advocates of equal opportunity do not make the same demands on public magnet schools, which have highly selective enrollment -
Keyes Would Abolish Dept. of Education
Opinion -In a January 11 speech to the Professional Educators of Iowa, a group of teachers and school administrators who oppose mandatory teacher membership in unions, Republican Presidential candidate Alan Keyes called for the abolition of the 21-year-old U.S.
