The leadership of The Center for Education Reform, the nation’s leading voice for structural and substantive change in education, today congratulated President Obama on his reelection, and offer the following suggestions for the President in his second term:

The enrollment numbers for the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) released today show a troubling drop in the number of students being served by the program (1,584 students in 2012-2013 compared to 1,615 in SY 2011-2012).

Amendments to Pennsylvania’s charter school law, negotiated in recent days and awaiting legislative approval, would be a serious setback for charter school educators, leaders and parents.

Today the Center for Education Reform (CER) released its much anticipated Model Legislation for States which illustrates a need by a majority of states to overhaul their laws governing charter schools.

The roundtable will address the critical question of whether education can be run as a profitable business and still stay true to a humanitarian vision.

Many parents seeing the upcoming movie Won’t Back Down will no doubt leave the theater inspired to take up the same fight as the dedicated moms in the film. But, they may also wonder if such power is just a Hollywood invention. Now they can find out with the new Parent Power Index© (PPI) from the…

The Center for Education Reform’s (CER) campaign to Take America Back to School on Education Reform continues with a web-based guide to candidate positions on education reform. Educationfifty.com is a dynamic tool that empowers voters to educate themselves about which candidates are real education reformers and which ones merely pay lip service to the idea.

I am pleased to share with you the second issue of our NEW LETTER TO FRIENDS, which is our semi-monthly report filled with exclusive news and observations you will not find anywhere else.

The Center for Education Reform (CER) releases “The Field Guide to Education Reform: How to Spot a Real Education Reformer” as part of its Taking America Back to School on Education Reform campaign.

As usual, the PDK/Gallup poll’s findings and analysis about public views on education and reform have the veneer of legitimacy. But once you scratch the surface, it is clear that the findings are “fruit from a poison tree,” since respondents are questioned without being given critical facts, data, and context.