FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 1, 2016 CONTACT: Corrie Leech, NACSA 312-376-2327 Michelle Tigani, CER 202-750-0016 WASHINGTON, DC - The Center for Education Reform and the National Association of Charter School Authorizers have announced the merger of their two organizations, effective today. “For years, our two organizations have worked to grow the quality and quantity…

Jeanne Allen: Issue of Teachers’ Rights Not Going Away WASHINGTON, DC (March 29, 2016)- Jeanne Allen, Founder and CEO of The Center for Education Reform, issued the following statement on the 4-4 Supreme Court ruling in the Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association et al. case this morning: The Supreme Court’s split decision on whether or…

DC Families Ask Federal Officials To Release Scholarship Funds February 25, 2016 WASHINGTON DC - As members of the US Senate HELP Committee were preparing for the confirmation hearing of Dr. John B. King, Jr. for US Education Secretary, Washington, DC students and parents were pressing Senate officials to help reauthorize the DC Opportunity Scholarship…

News Alert February 18, 2016 HARRISBURG, PA. Rebuffing Philadelphia’s School Reform Commission (SRC) in ignoring the letter of the law governing the state’s charter school law, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that the SRC’s actions are unconstitutional and it will no longer be above the law. Since the General Assembly permitted the School Reform…

Allen: The Content of Laws Matters In Ensuring Student Success January 21, 2016 Jeanne Allen, Founder and President Emeritus of The Center for Education Reform (CER), issued the following statement on the release of Measuring Up to the Model: A Ranking of State Charter School Laws yesterday from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools…

January 11, 2016 Washington, D.C. Teachers and parents from around the nation today at 9:00 am will gather outside of the U.S. Supreme Court in support of 10 California teachers as oral arguments are heard in their challenge, Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association et al., against the state requirement that they must fund their teacher’s…

News Alert December 17, 2015 The following statement was issued by Jeanne Allen, Founder and President Emeritus of The Center for Education Reform (CER), on the exclusion of the SOAR Act, which reauthorizes the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program (DCOSP), in the FY 2016 Omnibus Bill: “It’s astounding that Congressional leaders did not include the DCOSP,…

Education School to Create School-Embedded Masters News Alert December 16, 2015 A field marked by continual challenges in delivering rigorous programs to ensure quality teaching for every child is about to undergo a major transformation as the nation’s oldest university-based school of teaching, NYU Steinhardt, launches a path-breaking residency-based online teacher education program. The yearlong…

No Child Left Behind Reauthorization Revamps Federal Role in Education WASHINGTON, DC – The following statement was issued by Jeanne Allen, Founder & President-Emeritus, The Center for Education Reform, regarding the U.S. Senate passage today by a vote of 85-12 of the Every Student Succeeds Act (S.1177): “As the Founder of the nation’s first and…

Washington, D.C. November 13, 2015 The following statement was issued by Jeanne Allen, Founder and President-Emeritus of The Center for Education Reform: We were devastated by the news of the passing of John E. Chubb, one of the truly most impactful people of the entire school choice movement and an intellectual giant. Scholar, executive, educator…