Commentary Education is increasingly a policy issue which favors Republicans. This is an important development with huge implications for politics and the health of American society. The COVID-19 epidemic may have been the decisive turning point in a trend which has been gradually building since the 1980s. I remember when Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson signed…
San Diego Unified Opens School Choice Application Window
SAN DIEGO—The San Diego Unified School District School Choice application window for the 2022-23 school year opened today, giving students the opportunity to enroll in magnet programs or schools outside their neighborhood boundaries. The program is open to all San Diego Unified students, in addition to out-of-district students and students attending private or charter schools….
Alumni Donate $200,000 to Schools Bringing Hope During Pandemic
Colleen and William Mullin have donated $200,000 to three Philadelphia-area Catholic schools. They hope their money can help with students’ tuition as needed to support their finishing school. After selling their company two months ago, the Mullin couple decided to give back to the institutions that have influenced them most in their lives. On Sept. 16,…
Competing School Choice Initiatives Planned for California’s 2022 Election
Commentary When asked why one should vote to recall Governor Newsom, one response that seems to come up most frequently is that his four children are attending a private school. While Newsom is kowtowing to the public-school teachers’ unions and shutting down educational opportunities this past year for some 6 million children, he can afford…
‘Voting With Their Feet’: Australian Parents Flocking to Private Schools
A survey conducted by the Australian Broadcasting Cooperation (ABC) has shown that Australian parents believe that they get better outcomes for their children with private schools than public schools. The Australia Talks National Survey 2021 collected data from 60,000 Australian parents from the public and private sectors, with the private sector being broken down into schools…
School Choice Only Option in Divided Nation
Commentary The issue of critical race theory is raising a more fundamental question about our nation: education. Education is about more than teaching children to read and write. It is about transmitting values, transmitting a worldview, that will define how our youth think and how they will live. Per the Department of Education, in 2020,…
Giving Parents the Choice
June 2, 2021
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Commentary With widespread school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the debate over school choice has once again taken center stage. For the past seven years, approximately two-thirds of Americans have consistently supported school choice. Additionally, support is largely bipartisan, with 82 percent of Republicans, 69 percent of Independents, and 55 percent of Democrats in favor…
Minnesota Black School Choice Movement ‘Explicitly Rejects’ Narrative That America Is Racist
A school choice movement aimed at serving Minnesota’s black community has vowed to tackle the notion that the United States is a racist nation, saying such narratives are “structured to undermine the lives of black Americans.” The newly founded organization, TakeCharge Minnesota, describes itself on its website as seeking to “inspire and educate the black…
GOP States Expand School Choice as Lockdowns Boost Alternatives
Several Republican-led states are advancing school choice programs amidst a growth of alternative learning arrangements spurred by pandemic-related lockdowns. The new measures sometimes build on already established programs, expanding access to vouchers and scholarships, allowing more parents to pull their children from public schools and have the programs help pay for a private school, homeschooling,…
Arizona Continues to Lead Nation in Education Freedom After 20 Years: Study
Over 20 years after the initial study, researchers still find that parents in Arizona have the most freedom in choosing what education is best for their children, compared to parents in the rest of the United States. In 2000, the pro-school choice think tank Manhattan Institute created the Educational Freedom Index (EFI) to measure how…
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