Showing posts with label vouchers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vouchers. Show all posts

Jason Method: School Choice Thrives In New Jersey

Kids benefit, even if the teachers' union does not. When Superintendent Anthony Moro drove to Trenton on nearly two years ago, he knew the survival of his elementary school would be determined by the paperwork on his front seat. State officials gave Moro his wish. The brick school, little used by residents of this small Monmouth County town ... MORE

Vouchers Produce 'Savings' For Local Indiana Schools

from The Star Press. Indiana's much-criticized school voucher program is nearing the conclusion of its first year. With about 4,000 students participating statewide, furor arose over most of those students enrolling in church-based schools at public expense. The issue of giving tax dollars to parents who then choose a school has survived one legal     ... MORE

Diana Furchtgott-Roth: Parental Choice Is Best Reform

What if America gave its children the best education?     The school year is almost over, but the year's debate over education reform has only just begun. President Obama, who has opted out of DC Public Schools by sending his children to Sidwell Friends, is trying to end funding for Washington D.C.'s Opportunity Scholarship Program, which provides ... MORE

Sarah Hulsenga: Romney To Greatly Expand School Choice

A serious proposal to improve American education. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Wednesday proposed a major change in the government's education policy that would tie federal funds to students and not schools and greatly expand school choice. "I'm going to expand parental choice in an unprecedented way," Romney says ... MORE

Stephanie Banchero: School Vouchers Gain Ground

Louisiana is expanding their program.   Louisiana is poised to establish the nation's most expansive system of school choice by adopting a package of vouchers and other tools that would give many parents control over the use of tax dollars to educate their children. The initiative would effectively redefine vouchers, which have typically helped lower- ... MORE

P. Wolf & R. Maranto: Evidence That Vouchers Work

Competition increases student achievement. School vouchers have stalled in the Pennsylvania legislature, and President Obama's budget proposes to end the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, which allows children from low-income families to attend private schools with government aid. This is despite a U.S. Department of Education  ... MORE

Jason L. Riley: Obama's War On School Vouchers

The president is not pro-choice on education.    In his State of the Union address last month, President Obama spoke about the importance of kids staying in school and even urged states to raise the dropout age to 18. So it's passing strange that his new $3.8 trillion budget provides no new money for a school voucher program in Washington, D.C., that is producing    ... MORE

Food Cops Say 4-Year Old's Sandwich Not Healthy Enough

Little girl fed chicken nuggets instead.   A North Carolina mom is irate after her four-year-old daughter returned home late last month with an uneaten lunch the mother had packed for the girl earlier that day. But she wasn’t mad because the daughter decided to go on a hunger strike. Instead, the reason the daughter didn‘t eat her lunch is because someone at ... MORE

VIDEO: Milton Friedman - Questions For The Professor


On income disparity, minimum wage, school vouchers, health costs and more.

Walter E Williams: Economic Fairness

Who defines fairness? The most prevalent theme in President Barack Obama's Dec. 6 Osawatomie, Kan., speech was the need for greater "fairness." In fact, though the president never defined the term fair(ness), he used it 15 times. Explaining his new hero, Teddy Roosevelt, Obama said: "But Roosevelt also knew that the free market has never been a free license to take ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - School Choice = Better Schools


Politicians claim to want better schools, but do they actually vote for them? 

Ed Jones: The Civil Rights Issue Of The 21st Century

School choice promotes the free market and individual liberty. It is often difficult to feel optimistic about the future of liberty. Those of us who value individual liberty and free markets look only at the encroachment of government in our lives. We often overlook the victories that should give us hope for the future of liberty. The school choice movement is one of the most    ... MORE

The Superiority Of School Vouchers Demonstrated

by Gary Jason. The failure of the American K-12 public school system has been obvious for decades. Some of us fossils can recall the public uproar that accompanied the release of the report "A Nation at Risk" back in 1987, documenting the mediocre at best, disastrously bad at worst performance of the nation's public schools. The public school special interest groups ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Black Education

In my "Black Education Disaster" column (12/22/10), I presented National Assessment of Educational Progress test data that demonstrated that an average black high school graduate had a level of reading, writing and math proficiency of a white seventh- or eight-grader. The public education establishment bears part of the responsibility for this disaster, but a greater portion is borne by black students and their parents, ... MORE