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KENTUCKY HOUSE PASSES CHARTER SCHOOL BILL

A team of Constitutional law experts led by former Solicitor General of the United States Paul Clement has determined that the Kentucky state constitution does not in any way prohibit enactment of a strong charter school law.

What We Want to Hear From President Trump in His First State of the Union Address

The watchwords in education for the next four years ought to be parental choice and freedom for children to attend a school that meets their needs.

A Strong Kentucky Charter School Law Clearly Meets Constitutional Requirements, Top Legal Experts Find

A team of Constitutional law experts led by former Solicitor General of the United States Paul Clement has determined that the Kentucky state constitution does not in any way prohibit enactment of a strong charter school law.

Obama’s Student-Loan Fiasco

A ‘coding error’ helped justify a punitive new education regulation. Wall Street Journal Review & Outlook January 22, 2017 President Trump has promised to restore trust and accountability in government. How about auditing the Education Department? During its final days the Obama Administration slipped the news that its College Scorecard repayment rates were inflated, and…

Insanity in Ohio

January 17, 2017 The Ohio Department of Education is refusing to answer questions from The Plain Dealer about why its review last year of the district's charter school oversight work penalizes the district for technical violations of rules that do not even apply to the district—penalties which lead to the to the district’s oversight being…

Gov. Larry Hogan reshapes schools, utility boards

By Ovetta Wiggins Washington Post July 1, 2016 The president of Marylanders to Prevent Gun Violence is doing something she has never done before: organizing volunteers to monitor the state’s Handgun Review Permit Board. The board, which hears appeals from people who have been denied gun permits, is one of at least three in the…

Crazy Compliance Requirements for Ohio Charter Schools

Charter school sponsors will be spending the better part of July submitting documents for a new evaluation process that some argue is cumbersome and makes it impossible to receive perfect marks. The new evaluation framework - which was created by an advisory panel following a discovery last summer that the previous ratings were being calculated…

North Carolina Paves Path to Expand Choice

Details about North Carolina's proposed budget that would vastly expand choices for children:

New Data Shows 98% of 2016 Boston Charter High School Graduates Have Been Accepted to College

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 22, 2016 CONTACT: Eileen O'Connor [email protected] 617-806-6999 BOSTON, MA - New data from Boston’s six public charter high schools shows that 98.5% of 2016 graduates were accepted into college; 89% were accepted to a four-year university. Each of the six public charter high schools in Boston sent more than 90% of…