Category Archives: School choice
Blog readers know that I admire education commentator Rick Hess. He combines an ardent commitment to reform with a welcome insistence on asking how proposed reforms would work for teachers, parents, and students – in military parlance, the “boots on … Continue reading
I’ll continue throwing out suggestions for how Utah could most effectively spend its (inevitably limited) additional educational resources. But meanwhile, a debate over charter schools has been raging among the people commenting on this blog, and I can’t resist wading … Continue reading
Hey, fellow teachers. Feeling a little too relaxed after the Fourth of July weekend? Here’s an opportunity to raise low blood pressure. Today’s Wall Street Journal includes an article by Cato education scholar Andrew Coulson stating that “America has Too … Continue reading
A few weeks ago one of the commentators on this blog noted that I have a “libertarian” view of education. I’ve thought about this some, and decided that this label is partly true. But only partly. What’s true is that … Continue reading
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney gave his first major address on education yesterday. Blasting President Obama’s and Senate Democrats’ repeated efforts to shut down the District of Columbia’s enormously popular (at least with parents) voucher program, he called for expanding school … Continue reading
I just approved a heartfelt, and highly frustrated, comment from a frequent commentator. Why, he asks, are teachers ALWAYS the targets of education reform? Where are the other stakeholders? Where are the parents? This is not a new complaint: Lots … Continue reading
Since January 2010, California parents have (theoretically) had the legal right to force a school to close down, convert to a charter, or change its administration . . . if more than half of the parents whose kids attend this … Continue reading
