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2005 was a big year for school choice.  Check out the 2005 School Choice Yearbook here, and the End of Year Report here.  Read more »

In the Katrina rebuilding efforts, New Orleans is turning to charter schools: The charter school movement, already bolstered in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina devastated public schools in and around New Orleans, got another boost Monday when federal officials announced a $23.9 million grant to create new charter schools in the state. The grant was announced […] Read more »

Last Friday we said that teachers unions’ first concern is not the interests of children, but their dues-paying members.  However, if this teacher is to be believed, NEA-Alaska isn’t even doing that terribly well: I joined the Fairbanks Education Association almost 29 years ago. For most of those years, I was actively involved in “my” […] Read more »

This fellow overdoes things just a bit: For Chase Morgan and Shan Mullen of the Alliance for School Choice, progress is to be measured by how many schools are forced to close, regardless of what the immediate impact on families and children may be. Chase Morgan?  Shan Mullen?  Never heard of ’em.  Probably because Morgan […] Read more »

One Pennsylvania New Jersey school board is suddenly wondering how their superintendent scored some serious bonuses: The Camden Board of Education summoned Superintendent Annette D. Knox to a special meeting last night to have her explain how she earned $17,690 in bonuses the last two years. The bonuses came to light after The Inquirer reported […] Read more »

File this one under "Dogs and Cats Living Together": Owen of Boots and Sabers quotes this… A report from the Education Trust, a widely known advocacy group based in Washington, D.C., released today a study that strongly decried practices that put weaker teachers in front of needier students nationwide and cited Milwaukee and Wisconsin as […] Read more »

The more you look at Prop. 82, the uglier it gets: According to the final tally of ballots cast, 60.9 percent of voters statewide opposed Prop. 82 while just 39.1 percent supported it. The initiative, which needed a simple majority to pass, narrowly prevailed in just three of California’s 58 counties: Alameda, Imperial, and San […] Read more »

That’s the recommendation from the LA Daily News: What parents and teachers and students and anyone who cares about the state of education wants is for academic achievement to improve in the classrooms of the Los Angeles Unified School District. But that isn’t going to happen to the satisfaction of anyone except the entrenched bureaucrats […] Read more »

In the wake of Proposition 82’s decisive defeat, chief benefactor Rob Reiner issued this open invite: "I want to extend an invitation to our opposition, to those who voted against universal preschool, who have all said preschool is the right thing," Reiner said. "They might not agree with how we wanted to do it, but […] Read more »

California’s preschool initiative went down in flames, 60% to 40%.  Link dump below the fold.  Read more »