Education

During a 1987 visit to Chicago, then U.S. Secretary of Education William Bennett described the city's school district as the worst in the nation. He was not invited back for eleven years.

In negotiating collective bargaining agreements, far too many Michigan school districts have abandoned their obligations to protect employees' constitutional rights, according to a recent Mackinac Center study.

School choice advocates were handed their biggest victory to date on November 9 when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to the Wisconsin Supreme Court's June ruling in support of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program.

Nobel laureate Milton Friedman urged legislators, corporate executives, and community leaders attending the first conference to be hosted by the Milton & Rose D.

It is one of the happy coincidences of history that Dr.

While most school choice litigation is initiated by opponents seeking to halt the implementation of legislation to expand choice, a case recently argued before the Maine Supreme Court was initiated by school choice advocates seeking to overturn a 1981

Low-income students in New York City who were able to use vouchers to transfer to private or parochial schools last fall scored higher on reading and math tests than did their peers who remained behind in the public schools, according to a new study

The promising results from the new Harvard/Mathematica study of New York City's private voucher program quickly came under fire from school choice opponents, who tried to discredit the analysis by questioning the motives of lead researcher Paul E.

According to the new study of New York City’s School Choice Scholarship Program, the parents of students awarded scholarships placed their children in schools where they were less likely to have access to a library, a cafeteria, a nurse's office,

"Those presently in control of the education system have run short of ideas except to lobby continually for more money," say the teachers who signed "A Letter to the American People,” calling for systemic school reform.

Critics of school choice argue that low-income families will select schools for their children on the basis of sports programs, location, or religious instruction--not on educational quality.

Declining to rest on its laurels after a banner year of program growth, CEO America is working to maintain the growing momentum for school choice, moving forward with efforts to expand the number of privately funded voucher programs throughout the

"I wish I could of study longer and harder. . . . What I had learn was that If I had study more I think that I would of got a better grade.

A November 10 Wall Street Journal description of the workings of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program makes clear the direct parallel between that voucher program and other taxpayer-funded programs that enhance choice for college students and

Attacking the Enemy Charging the teacher labor unions with blocking every meaningful attempt to reform failing public schools and with being "perpetrators of educational genocide," the national president of the Samaritan Project, Bishop Earl W.

Pennsylvania's Southeast Delco School District adopted in early 1998 a local student grant program.

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Colorado parents seeking information on specific schools for their children can call the Parent Information Center in Golden for a report card on the school's academic record, which is graded "A" through "F" depending on the percentage of students

Voters in Colorado rejected by a 59 percent to 41 percent margin the Amendment 17 ballot initiative that would have provided tax credits to parents who send their children to private schools.

"Twelfth grade is a cotillion or debutante ball, a coming-out party for an inferior product, the result of 12 years of ruinous instruction, flawed governance, disengaged parents and communities, lack of competition and stagnant ideas.

Dismayed by how little improvement in the quality of public education has taken place in the 15 years since publication of A Nation at Risk, a group of nationally acclaimed teachers has declared that the time has come for fundamental reform of the

"I'll start representing kids when kids start paying union dues." Al Shanker, former AFT President California Gov.

Illinois . . . Only days after he was endorsed by the Illinois Education Association (IEA) for this year's gubernatorial race, Secretary of State George Ryan (R) announced his support for tuition tax credits.

"We must adjust, and even overhaul, the current mélange of K-16 education policies that sends confusing signals to students and schools about what knowledge is worth knowing," says Stanford University education professor Michael W.