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School Choice Does Work
10.22.2013
School Choice Does Work, is Constitutional By Richard Komer DNJ.com October 18, 2013 Zelman v. Simmons-Harris in 2002 was of one of the most important U.S. Supreme Court decisions since Brown vs. Board of Education. In Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, the court upheld the constitutionality of a school choice program in Cleveland for low-income children long…
Tough Road Ahead for Charters In MS
07.26.2013
“Launching charter school in Miss. a grueling process” by Ruth Ingram Courier-Post July 6, 2013 The first public charter school in Mississippi could open in less than two years. But those who want to found one face a grueling process to put together a serious application that must win approval from a seven-member state board…
Online Learning Trend Grows
07.26.2013
New Mexico Connections Academy, the state’s second virtual-learning charter school, is opening next month and already about 300 students from around the state have enrolled.
TX Charter Bill Moves Forward
05.17.2013
The bill would update rules on the renewal, expansion and revocation of charters, raising the current cap of 215 charters that can be authorized at any one time by allowing an additional 10 per year up to a total of 275 by 2019.
Mississippi Governor Signs Charter Schools Act
04.18.2013
The legislation passed allows up to 15 charter schools a year to start in low-performing, D- and F-rated districts, without local school board approval.
TX Senate Committee Approves Tax Credits
04.12.2013
A state Senate committee on Thursday approved a high-profile school voucher plan, sending it to the full chamber for what could be a fierce floor fight.
On Cheerier Notes: Charter School Successes & One Student's Life-Changing Choice
06.05.2018
(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…
06.05.2018
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
06.05.2018
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
06.05.2018
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
06.05.2018
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
06.05.2018
“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.”
Newswire – April 13, 2021
04.13.2021
FORGET ABOUT NECESSITY – COVID HAS BEEN THE “MOTHER OF INVENTION” FOR SCHOOL INNOVATORS.
New Database Has All The Resources You Need For Remote, Digital And Micro-Schooling
04.12.2021
CER’s Essential Education database is searchable by grade, subject, format, and price.
Newswire – April 7, 2021
04.07.2021
A LOOK AT THE HEROES OF COVID… AND MOVING FORWARD WITH PERMANENT SOLUTIONS… JOIN US APRIL 14
A New Report By The Florida League Of Women Voters Claims Educational Diversity Is The Wrong Road In Education
04.07.2021
In states where educational choice has become more popular and more school options are available to parents, student performance, education quality and value is consistently better – and not just in schools of choice.
Newswire – March 30, 2021
03.30.2021
KENTUCKY DERBY FOR KIDS
Newswire – March 23, 2021
03.23.2021
Hope in the States…But Bigotry Lives On)
Education Mediocrity Remains
02.22.2018
Education gaps, access to training, technology and lack of options all add up to a ‘disappointing reality’ for most US citizens, according a new report authored by Dr. Cara Candal, Research Fellow at the Center for Education Reform.
Voices of Color, Voices for Opportunity: CER Response to NAACP Call for Moratorium on New Charter Schools
02.14.2018
In 2017, the Center for Education Reform mounted an aggressive response to the deeply troubling debate over the future of charter schools. Even as charter schools continue to flourish and provide real education opportunity for students and families, leaders of the status quo launched a multi-pronged coordinated campaign to discredit charters by charging that the…
CER Urges: State of the Union Address Must Build a Bridge Between Education, National Security and Economic Prosperity
01.29.2018
The Center for Education Reform is urging the 45th president of the US to use his office and his bully pulpit to make the inextricable link between the most important pre-condition for success for all Americans – individually and as a nation; Education.
BREAKING: Special National School Choice Week Podcast features Schools, Members of Congress and Ed Secretary
01.22.2018
In honor of National School Choice Week, the nation’s most trusted leader in advancing education opportunity and innovation will salute the tens of thousands of parents, schools and advocates making a difference in education outcomes for all learners with special audio and video releases detailing the breadth and depth of support for ending inequitable education…
CER Urges President to Keep Education Front and Center in Rural Initiative
01.08.2018
Today President Trump announced an initiative to achieve prosperity for rural America by advancing innovation and technology in these challenged communities. While this is promising news, education opportunity must be the foundation if the new initiative is to succeed.
U.S. Fourth-Graders Lag Behind Other Countries In Reading Statement by Jeanne Allen, Founder and CEO, the Center for Education Reform
12.12.2017
The latest report on the deteriorating condition of U.S. fourth-graders’ reading proficiency is infuriating and depressing but a trend that is not at all surprising. The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) has been administered every five years since 2001 and the fact that, as U.S. News reports, “Reading comprehension among fourth-grade students has…