Education News – Julia Lawrence
“Jason Bedrick writing on the Cato Institute’s Cato At Liberty blog explains that the New Hampshire’s nascent school voucher program has survived an attempt at its repeal by a 14-10 vote in the State Senate.”(more)
Education News – Julia Lawrence
“The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice has just published a new report – titled A Win-Win Solution: The Empirical Evidence on School Choice – showing that recent research proves that communities that adopt school choice solutions not only reap benefits in the forms of better academic outcomes for their students, but also save money and promote an integrated classroom environment.”(more)
Education Next – Matthew M. Chingos and Paul E. Peterson
“The magnitude of the voucher impact on African American students may seem unexpectedly large given the modest nature of the intervention: a partial-tuition scholarship of no more than $1,400 annually. Among all those offered a voucher, the average length of time a voucher was used was less than three years.”(more)
Education News – Julia Lawrence
“According to a paper released by the Center for Education Reform, Louisiana is near the top of the list of states that give parents the most control over their children’s education, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports.”(more)
Education Next – Jay P. Greene
“Of course, there is an alternative to trying to convince the education establishment to buy into reform. Donors could mobilize the most important yet most ignored constituency of all: parents. By expanding parental choices in schools, foundations can engage parents very effectively in controlling education policies.”(more)
Education News – Julia Lawrence
“According to the state’s Department of Education more than 7,000 new students have applied to take part in the program this year — even though the program’s survival now rests in the hands of the Louisiana Supreme Court.”(more)
Reuters Stephanie Simon
“The Indiana Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously upheld the nation’s broadest school voucher program, which gives poor and middle-class families public funds to help pay private school tuition.”(more)
Education News Julia Lawrence
“As Louisiana’s voucher program is getting a hearing from the full 7-judge panel of the Louisiana Supreme Court, advocates both for and against it are making their case to the public.”(more)
The Economist Staff Writer
“Nineteen states have now received RTT grants, and all but four have applied for them. Along the way they have undertaken, among other things, to conduct more rigorous evaluations of both students and teachers, to make better use of the resulting data and to foster charter schools, meaning state-funded schools that operate independently of local school districts.”(more)
Education Week Alyson Klein
“Could school choice legislation be coming to a Congress—or at least to a GOP-controlled U.S. House of Representatives—near you?…on the Senate side, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., introduced a bill that would allow corporations and private donors to use a new tax credit to give money to organizations that give scholarship to students that want to attend private school.”(more)
