In what is being touted as the āGolden Age of School Choice,ā the option that is most popular with American familiesāto fund and attend…
The letters started coming in October 2025. In the first wave, according to the Florida Policy Institute (FPI), āat least 22 school districts…
With nearly every day presenting more evidence of Americaās eroding democracy, itās understandable to wonder whether a countervailing force will come forward…
The Trump administration and Republican governors have a plan for the nationās public education system. They call it school choice, but their real…
When is a āschool choiceā proposal not really about school choice? In the budget bill that Republicans rushed through the House on…
Marta Bulaich didnāt notice the charter school that abutted her rental property in Watsonville, California, until she saw children scaling the 12-foot…
There was an ironic moment in former President Barack Obamaās speech at the 2024 Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago when he brought…
Ever since charter schools were created in the 1990s, thereās been a persistent question1 of whether or not the schools introduce an element of profit-making into…
āUntil now, we havenāt even tried to make big-city school districts work, especially for children of color,ā Jhoanna Maldonado said when Our…
āInstead of seizing the chance to close schoolsā¦ communities across the country are pushing their districts to think about schools differently and…
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