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Parent Empowerment In FL
01.27.2012
Proponents tout Parent Trigger legislation as a “parents bill of rights.”
Indiana Considers Parent Trigger
01.23.2012
Measure would let parents vote to turn public schools over to charter operators.
Florida Virtual School Students Shine
01.23.2012
Online students outperformed their traditional-school peers on AP tests in 2011, and at less cost, new studies show.
Camp Out For Quality School
01.23.2012
Philadelphia parents line up to apply for kindergarten spots at Penn Alexander public school.
Miami-Dade Teacher Evaluation
01.20.2012
Report from the National Council on Teacher Quality suggests the FL district doesn’t do enough to get rid of underperforming teachers.
Parents Take On Union
01.20.2012
Union warned not to stand in the way of improving Buffalo’s worst performing schools.
Class Segregation and Educational Opportunity
07.01.2015
I recently attended a discussion at the American Enterprise Institute with Robert Putnam of Harvard University, Charles Murray, who is a W.H. Bradley Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and William Julius Wilson, a sociologist and Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University. Each speaker presented their criticism of Putnam’s newest…
A Charter School is Born
06.30.2015
A story of how a charter school started out as an idea to meet a need, the struggles it encountered trying to come into being, and the amazing impact it’s had so far on its community now that it is open and serving students. St. Helen Elementary School, part of the Roscommon Area Public Schools…
Entrepreneurship as Innovation in Education
06.29.2015
When I heard the word entrepreneur, the field of education was quite possibly the last thing that entered into my mind. To me, an entrepreneur was always someone who created a new business against a great deal of resistance from outside forces. Think Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook or Steve Jobs and Apple. I never before…
Leading The News: 25 Years of Education Coverage
06.26.2015
Where’s the first place you would go to hear updated information on education? What’s the source that you trust the most? What was the last educational topic you heard about in the media? These are all questions that were raised by educational advocate Andrew R. Campanella in his report Leading The News: 25 Years of…
My First Day
06.25.2015
As I approach my final year at Wake Forest University, I reflect on the amazing opportunities I have been given and the wonderful education I have been lucky enough to receive. It was not until my sophomore year however, when I took a class on the policy of public education, that I realized just how…
All Great Things Come to an End
06.19.2015
It’s amazing how time flies. Just two months ago I was being interviewed for a position at the The Center for Education Reform (CER) and now it’s my last day as an intern. I’m really going to miss walking in every morning and greeting the wonderful staff. When I walked into the office for the…
Newswire – June 16, 2020
06.16.2020
FLAGS, GRADS AND DADS A MOMENTOUS WEEK kicked off on Sunday with the 135th celebration of “Flag Day,” observed on June 14th. That was the date in 1777 that the Second Continental Congress officially adopted the flag. We can’t think of a better time to remind ourselves of the last line of the Pledge of Allegiance – “With…
Kirkland & Ellis Espinoza Memo
06.12.2020
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CER's Latest Action Series Covered in the Boston Globe
06.10.2020
Two Catholic school superintendents who serve over 100,000 combined students – most of them from marginalized communities shared the urgency of Saving Catholic Schools in the most recent episode of our COVID ACTION Series – Saving Catholic Schools: What’s Happened & Why it’s Important.
Special Newswire – June 8, 2020
06.08.2020
A Special – and perhaps most important to date – NewswireEDUCATION AS A VEHICLE FOR CHANGE Dear Friends -We, too, are saddened and shocked by the murders, the racism, the disrespect, the destruction. As advocates for education opportunity and excellence, we’ve always believed that education — if not “the” — is at least “a” great…
In New Mexico, A High Quality Charter School Gets Punished by State Regulators
06.05.2020
It’s hard to believe, but an A rated school in Albuquerque, New Mexico for over four years – only one of 13% of schools in the state with that distinction – has been denied an expansion to serve the 1,000 students on the waiting list. Even in a time of Covid, and uncertainty over schooling,…
New Mexico Denies Exceptional School Expansion
06.05.2020
“There should be no reason that any governmental agency tasked with approving and overseeing the creation and expansion of charter schools – would deny families for whom education is the great equalizer,”
CER Statement on Detroit Coalition Report
03.31.2015
The Center for Education Reform (CER) today released a statement in response to a proposal announced yesterday by the Coalition for the Future of Detroit School Children:
CER Hopes Maryland Lawmakers Continue To Debate Critical Changes To State’s Charter School Law
03.26.2015
Kara Kerwin, president of The Center for Education Reform, issued the following statement on the Maryland Senate Education Committee’s changes to Governor Larry Hogan’s Public Charter School Expansion and Improvement Act of 2015:
Pennsylvania Lawmakers Must Defend Charter Schools
03.20.2015
Kara Kerwin, president of The Center for Education Reform, issued the following statement on potential threats facing charter schools in Pennsylvania:
Alabama Poised To Become 44th Charter School Law In The Nation
03.19.2015
Last night, the Alabama legislature passed SB 45, which would allow the creation of up to ten charter schools and an unlimited number of charter school conversions annually.
States Show Little Progress On Annual Education Scorecard
03.15.2015
Of the 42 states and the District of Columbia that have charter school laws, only one-third earned above-average scores for implementing a strong policy environment according to the 16th Edition of Charter School Laws Across the States 2015: Rankings and Scorecard released today by The Center for Education Reform (CER).
NEPC Charter School Report Inaccurately Uses CER Data
03.02.2015
The Center for Education Reform (CER) takes issue with its data being used out of context to discredit an important body of evidence on charter schools in the United States. Review of Separating Fact & Fiction, published by the National Education Policy Center (NEPC), uses CER data to assert that “underperforming charter schools are allowed…