What has the Sunshine State learned from 27 years of school choice?
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Modern school voucher programs, publicized as a tool to provide education options for low-income families, have harmed majority Black schools.
Public school funding could take a hit if the US Supreme Court opens the door to religious charter schools, a scholar of education law argues.
Research suggests school choice programs have little effect on student achievement but worsen overall outcomes by draining money from cash-strapped public school systems.
Most school-choice programs in the US have been approved by lawmakers. But when asked for their views, voters have overwhelmingly rejected them.
Howard Fuller’s support for school choice is connected to the Black Power movement and a pursuit to provide Black students a quality education by any means necessary.
Letting parents choose which school their child attends positions parents as consumers, and often diverts students and funding away from public schools.
The push to expand charter schools in the U.S. contributed to a robust movement of teachers’ unions and allies demanding a well-resourced public school system.
First, the United Conservative Party lifted the cap on charter schools, and now new legislation has cut school boards out of the process to establish a charter school.
Expansion of voucher programs may leave parents with a choice between sending children to religious schools or public schools stripped of funding.
Research over the past few years has shown vouchers for private schools set back student learning. So why are advocates still pushing so hard to expand them?
Though his education initiative staggered while he was in office, the late former President George H.W. Bush had an influence that continues to shape education policy, an education historian says.
Although many feared that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos would destroy public education, a review of the past two years shows that much of her policy agenda has failed.
Traditional public schools suffer as states create favorable funding schemes for charter schools and school vouchers.
The Trinity Lutheran case signals the Supreme Court’s willingness to interpret separation of church and state as religious discrimination. What will this mean for the future of vouchers and school choice?
The Trump administration’s new education budget cuts money from traditional schools and funnels it toward school choice. Is it a nail in the coffin for public education?
As school choice advocates attempt to garner more widespread support for vouchers, a new kind of voucher system is growing: one that uses tax credits to subsidize private education.
What Betsy DeVos, an advocate of school-choice initiatives and President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for education secretary, as well as the rest of us need to know about cyber charter schools.
Trump’s billionaire nominee for secretary of education has stirred up debate about the effectiveness of school choice. What does the research say? And, who is Betsy DeVos?
A recent study on school vouchers shows that the program may be harming kids’ academic achievement, at least in math. What’s missing here? Are test scores the only way to judge a program?
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Professor of Law, University of South Carolina
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Director of the Center for Evaluation & Education Policy, Professor of Education Policy, Indiana University
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Assistant Professor of Education Policy, Law, and Politics, University of South Carolina
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Distinguished Professor, Faculty of Education, Brock University
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