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Parent Trigger's Florida Introduction
01.13.2012
The Parent Empowerment Act filed in the Florida House and Senate spurs contention.
Governor Cuomo's Call To Action
01.13.2012
Mike Bloomberg didn’t precisely call Andrew Cuomo’s public-education bluff yesterday — but he sure did cover the governor’s bet.
Charters Boost Denver Achievement
01.13.2012
A few high-performing charter schools drove the bulk of improved growth scores for the CO district.
Common Ground On School Choice
01.11.2012
National School Choice Week will bring together leaders and groups on both sides of the aisle.
Scrap Prescribed Teacher Pay
01.11.2012
TN Governor wants to give districts flexibility to create compensation plan that meets their own needs and accounts for student performance.
Race To The Top Blame
01.11.2012
Point fingers at unions and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver if feds pull New York’s $700 million.
César Chávez Symposium
06.08.2015
Every year, seniors at Chávez schools present and defend their theses, which focus on current public policy issues, during the César Chávez Public Charter Schools Public Policy Symposium. Students include a background of the issue, analysis of the policy, and their recommendations on how to improve/change the policy in their thesis presentations. This year’s topics…
Touring D.C. International Public Charter School
06.08.2015
Last week, CER Interns attended a First Fridays Tour at D.C. International Public Charter School (DCI). Mary Shaffner, the Executive Director, founded the school in 2014 with “the mission of training students to become multilingual, culturally competent and capable of taking their learning to the next level.” Each student engages in partial language immersion in…
Education's Impact on Success
06.03.2015
Education is an essential part of life. It can create an opportunity of a lifetime that many aren’t fortunate enough to obtain. Education is the key to success that opens the door to knowledge, opportunities, and personal development. My mother strongly valued education when I was younger. It was unacceptable to bring home any grade…
Intersection of Politics and Education
06.03.2015
As I prepare to enter into my fourth and final year at Wake Forest University I can’t help but reflect on the opportunities I have been awarded due to my education, which makes me think about what other individuals miss out on due to a lack of access to education. This inequity of access to…
What Lies Ahead
06.03.2015
Walking into the building this morning, I had no idea what to expect. I had applied for the internship, done my research, had my interview, asked all my questions and yet I had no idea what lay before me. My passion for education started when I was three years old and I would force my…
My First Day at CER
06.03.2015
Today marks the beginning of my involvement in the education reform movement, and I couldn’t be more excited. I am a rising junior at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine majoring in Sociology and am from Wilton, Connecticut. I became interested in education during high school, when I witnessed the stark contrast between the public education…
The Alliance for Choice in Education Files Supreme Court Brief
05.22.2020
The Alliance for Choice in Education Files Supreme Court BriefApril 11, 2019The Alliance for Choice in Education’s brief ties together many of the themes present in the numerous amicus briefs filed in support of Kendra Espinoza. The brief first points out that barring religious options from Montana’s school choice program perpetuates the historical discrimination and…
Agudath Israel Files Supreme Court Brief
05.22.2020
Agudath Israel Files Supreme Court Brief: Is Excluding Religious Schools from a School Choice Program Constitutional?Agudath Israel of America | April 12, 2019″Agudath Israel has filed an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief in the Supreme Court of the United States in a case, Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, involving a Montana tax…
Why America Event 5 – Teacher Resource Guide
05.20.2020
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Newswire – May 19, 2020
05.19.2020
EDUCATION’S BERLIN WALL. When the Berlin Wall fell and East Germans experienced freedom for the first time — there was no going back. With an assist from COVID19, and despite the overwhelming tragedies and seeming irreversible impact it has created, the walls confining students to education based on zip code has also fallen. Millions of…
REOPENING SCHOOLS: WHAT TO EXPECT
05.18.2020
CER will convene three prestigious education leaders who are helping drive local, state and federal responses to continuous education post Covid-19. WHO: New Orleans Education Superintendent Dr. Henderson Lewis, Jr., School Board chair Ethan Ashley, and former DC City Council Chair, author and now K-12 president Kevin ChavousModerated by Jeanne Allen, Founder & CEO, Center for Education…
NY TImes: DeVos Funnels Coronavirus Relief Funds to Favored Private and Religious Schools
05.18.2020
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, using discretion written into the coronavirus stabilization law, is using millions of dollars to pursue long-sought policy goals that Congress has blocked.New York Times | May 15, 2020By Erica Green, correspondent in Washington who covers the U.S. Department of Education and Secretary Betsy DeVos, focusing on higher education policy, educational equity and…
School is in Session with Nation’s Pioneer and Leading Advocate for Reform
02.02.2015
A course designed by the founders of education reform to pass the history on to subsequent generations is formally in session today, a result of years of development and decades of experience by The Center for Education Reform (CER), and its founder, Jeanne Allen.
The Center for Education Reform Files Brief in District of Columbia Education Lawsuit
01.20.2015
Suit Supports Funding Equity for All D.C. Public School Students Press Release Washington, D.C. January 20, 2015 The Center for Education Reform (CER), together with Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO), Friends of Choice in Urban Schools (FOCUS) and the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS), filed an amicus brief Friday, January 16 with…
Demand High for Online Learning in North Carolina
01.07.2015
As the North Carolina State Board of Education hears virtual charter school applications today, The Center for Education Reform strongly encourages state leaders to uphold the law confirming the establishment of two virtual charter schools for North Carolina students.
EdReformU™ Launches with First Groundbreaking Online Course
01.05.2015
The nation’s leading pioneer and oldest education reform group today announced the launch of its path-breaking EdReformU™, a full course of study designed that will provide the next generation of reformers access to the nation’s leading authorities and pioneers in education reform, via mobile technology.
State Education Policy Should Focus on Outcomes, Not Inputs
12.03.2014
Kara Kerwin, president of The Center for Education Reform (CER), issued the following statement in light of the release of “On the Road To Better Accountability: An Analysis of State Charter School Policies” from the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) today:
Election Analysis: More than Half of Nation’s State Executives Well-Equipped to Positively Impact Education System
11.06.2014
With two gubernatorial election results pending, more than half (57 percent) of governors and governors-elect in the United States and the mayor of Washington, D.C. hold encouraging views or have proven track records on promoting charter schools, school choice and teacher quality measures, according to an Education50 Election Day analysis from The Center for Education…