News & Analysis
The EdNext Poll: The Case for a Moral Imperative
We were wrong. Our friends at the AP and Politico were right in their coverage.
National Review Randi Weingarten’s History Lesson: School Choice Helps the Poor
This op-ed by Jeanne Allen appeared in National Review on July 27, 2017. Randi Weingarten wanted to teach me a lesson. I remember my mother wanting to teach me a lesson — or ten — over time, but they were usually grounded in experience and truth. https://twitter.com/rweingarten/status/888507577171976192 Weingarten, the infamous head of the American Federation…
Randi Weingarten’s Hypocrisy
She’s the new George Wallace. By Steve Schuck Let me get this straight: According to Randi Weingarten, those of us committed to providing low-income parents the resources to choose the schools they think are best for their children are racists. At the same time, we’re to believe those who oppose emancipating their kids imprisoned in…
National Review: A New Blue-State Experiment with School Reform
This op-ed written by CER Founder and CEO Jeanne Allen appeared in National Review on July 28th. Education opportunity should be the price Illinois governor Bruce Rauner demands in return for Chicago getting its pension bailout. Unless Governor Rauner and the Democratic leadership in control of Illinois’s house and senate agree to a new education-funding…
Orange County Register: How a U.S. Supreme Court case may help turn the tide for educational choice
This op-ed written by Jeanne Allen, the founder and CEO of the Center for Education Reform appeared in the Orange County Register on July 28th. A Supreme Court decision that could change the balance of power in schools from system power to parent power is well-known in policy circles but not by the general…
AFRICAN-AMERICAN EDUCATION LEADERS SPEAK OUT AGAINST NAACP ACTIONS
The following statement was issued today by CER directors David Hardy, founder and Chair of Boys' Latin Philadelphia Charter School and Donald Hense, founder and chairman of Washington D.C.'s Friendship Public Charter Schools, in response to the NAACP Task Force on Education Quality July 2017 Hearing Report. The NAACP’s campaign against charter schools is detrimental and disrespectful to all…
STATEMENT: Allen Renews Call for Union Leader to Step Down
Statement from the Center for Education Reform: Randi Weingarten’s smug obstinacy in refusing to accept responsibility for her slur against reformers is disturbing. [U.S. News & World Report, July 24, 2017]Clearly, she believes staying on message—no matter how insulting that message is to African-Americans and people of color throughout the nation—is more important than honesty, fairness,…
Union leader’s attack on parents and others who support school choice is hateful and should not stand
STATEMENT BY JEANNE ALLEN, FOUNDER AND CEO "AFT president Randi Weingarten’s characterization of education reform parents and advocates as racists akin to the southern segregationists of the past, is not just ill-advised hyperbole, it is a deeply offensive, highly inflammatory insult to all the parents and people – of all races, backgrounds, and regions –…
Shining a bright light on flaws in Duke University study of N.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program
“The data analysis strategy for the Duke report is poorly designed, using both different comparison groups and different tests, ... ”
Further Analysis Reveals: A welcome rebuke of Duke University’s flawed research on North Carolina Opportunity Scholarships student performance
by Jeanne Allen, Founder and Chief Executive The white paper “North Carolina Opportunity Scholarships: Countering a Flawed Duke Report,” developed by Brian Jodice of Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina (PEFNC), is not only a victory for scholarship programs but for honesty in research which, when it comes to school choice issues, is often…