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National Certification Doesn’t Reward Best Teachers, Studies Show
Opinion -When K-12 public school teachers attain certification through the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS), they are rewarded with annual bonuses of up to $7,500. -
Federal Court Upholds Arizona Tax Credits
Opinion -Ruling in what school choice advocates have called "the most frivolous" challenge ever filed against a school choice program, a federal district court judge on March 24 upheld Arizona's scholarship tax credit program as constitutional, dismissing a -
April 2005 Friedman Report School Choice Roundup
Opinion -Arizona * Florida * Indiana * Minnesota * New Jersey New York * Ohio * Texas ARIZONA Arizona Working Toward Voucher System Arizona Republicans vowed to increase their efforts to implement a voucher system for education, in hopes of giving -
Thousands Rally for Vouchers in Florida, Wisconsin
Opinion -Crowds of concerned parents, students, and educators rallied in Tallahassee, Florida and Madison, Wisconsin in January and February to show support for defending and expanding school voucher programs that school choice opponents are trying to kill or -
Stossel: Politicians’ Kids Go to Private Schools
Opinion -"Politicians who promote public schools don't always send their kids to them," said ABC News journalist John Stossel in a segment of the 20/20 program broadcast on January 28, called "Public Schools for Poor Kids, Not Politicians' Kids. -
Judge Orders Sharply Higher Spending for New York City Public Schools
Opinion -Culminating a 12-year court battle over the funding of New York City's public schools, New York State Supreme Court Justice Leland DeGrasse issued a final decision on February 15 ordering the state legislature and governor to spend an additional $5. -
Students Benefit from Project CREO
Opinion -A total of 531 students transferred to better-performing public schools and more than 200 were able to receive tutoring services during 2003-04 as a result of help provided by Project CREO, according to a February 2005 update from Hispanic CREO, the -
Georgia Parents Sue for Vouchers
Opinion -In a potentially far-reaching lawsuit filed on January 27 in Fulton County Superior Court in Georgia, three Atlanta families charged the State of Georgia and its agents with failing to provide their children with the opportunity for an adequate education. -
Study: Rules and Regulations Are Paralyzing U.S. Schools
Opinion -A new study from the bipartisan legal reform coalition Common Good found U.S. schools are greatly over-regulated, in many cases to the point of paralysis. -
Deputy Education Secretary Hickok Resigns
Opinion -Deputy Secretary of Education Gene Hickok resigned from the U.S. Department of Education effective at the end of January, after four years of efforts to bring historic changes to the culture of American K-12 education. -
Rockford Parents Want to Keep Successful Reading Program
Opinion -The parent organization of the Lewis Lemon public school in Rockford, Illinois is asking the local school board not to drop a three-year-old reading program that has raised the school’s test scores well above the district average. -
Teacher Union Violating Utah Election Laws, Complaint Alleges
Opinion -On December 16, 2004, the education reform group Education Excellence Utah filed a complaint with Utah attorney general Mark Shurtleff (R) against the Ballot Fund of the National Education Association (NEA). -
Big Apple Hits Jackpot in School Finance Case
Opinion -In an escalating conflict with the separation of powers doctrine, a court-appointed panel on November 30, 2004 unanimously determined that New York state lawmakers must find an additional $5. -
Legal Jujitsu
Opinion -According to Sol Stern, one of New York state’s most powerful arguments against the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit was that New York City’s public education system was “so dysfunctional ... -
Building Unwanted Schools in Illinois
Opinion -While taxpayers in Florida’s Miami-Dade School District aren’t getting the new schools they want and need, taxpayers in Jersey County, Illinois, are getting new schools they don’t want and don’t need, despite rejecting --by a 71-29 percent vote--a 1999 -
California Charters Show Above-Average Gains
Opinion -Students attending California charter schools were 8.5 percent more likely to be proficient at reading and 5. -
Education Next Addresses Merit Pay for Teachers
Opinion -Merit pay for teachers is featured in the Winter 2005 issue of the scholarly journal, Education Next, published by the Hoover Institution. -
Florida Corporations Step Up Support for Low-Income Students
Opinion -In 2004, Florida corporations significantly increased their participation in Step Up for Students, the state’s two-year-old program intended to provide children in low-income families with tax-credit-funded scholarships for attending the private or -
Florida Supreme Court Reverses Itself
Opinion -On December 28, 2004, the Florida Supreme Court backed away from its December 24 order telling Gov. -
Superintendent Plans Revamp of Miami-Dade School Construction
Opinion -In his first few months as the new superintendent of the Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Rudolph F. -
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