Commentary

Real Clear Policy

They don’t call it “Real Clear Policy” for nothin’. Friend, colleague, fellow edreform pioneer (and honorary co-chair of CER’s Silver Anniversary Summit) Gov. Jeb Bush, and Steve Klinsky, Founder and CEO of Modern States Education Alliance, offer a compelling plan that would lower the cost of tuition (by up to 25 percent) and create an…

Tick, Tock – The Clock Winds Down on Janus v. AFSCME Decision

The clock’s winding down, and decisions are being handed down, as the end of this session of the Supreme Court draws to a close.

On Cheerier Notes: Charter School Successes & One Student's Life-Changing Choice

(Newswire, June 5, 2018)  Check out these two stories on charter schools.  First the CBS Morning News on Basis Independent Silicon Valley, which has captured the top five spots on U.S. News and World Report's list of the best high schools and where students are required to take at least seven AP courses, beginning as…

Good News? Baltimore School Board to Consider More Charter Apps, Cuts Charter Funding…

Later this month the Baltimore School Board will consider applications for six new charter schools.

Confirmation: The D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program Keeps Kids Safe

Scholarship students who attended a private school were over 35 percent more likely to report that their schools were very safe. And parents of the students were about 36 percent more likely to report that their children were in very safe schools.

Stand Up for Nevada's Clark County Charter School Students

The Las Vegas Review-Journal ran a piece about how Nevada’s Clark County School District had created a new marketing position to sell the district’s schools to parents and slow the exodus of student to charter schools.

Demanding Justice, Equity & Fairness for Success Academy, New York Charter Students

If he truly wants to mend fences with the city’s high-performing charter schools and their leaders, he can start by granting long-languishing space requests and also end an injustice that NY1 exposed this week...

Personality Politics – Public Perception on EdReform, Charter Schools Stands to Suffer Amidst Polarizing Figures

“Most [charter school teachers] come to this work to provide underserved children with a better shot at educational success, but now they’re increasingly branded as corporate stooges selling out public education by critics who challenge charter schools’ right to exist.”

Politics As Unusual – Education Shapes the Campaign Debate for Key Primaries

“A subterranean divide among Democrats between backers of teachers unions and those of charter schools and other education innovations is helping shape key gubernatorial primaries…”

Response to Valerie Strauss

Responding to Valerie Strauss ('Answer Sheet') Jeanne Allen All you have to know about Valerie Strauss’ attempts at journalism, and those she quotes or offers as “proof” that public education is under attack by dark forces who want to “privatize” schools (which of course is a misnomer since public strings are intricately linked to any…