The case for school choice keeps getting stronger in the new year
The new year began with a spate of public school closures, echoing the worst days of the coronavirus epidemic when schools shuttered classrooms and went to all-remote instruction. That was…
School board mayhem bolsters case for choice
2021 was a rough year for public schools – particularly at school board meetings, where images of angry parents, agitated interest groups, and edgy school board members filled the airwaves….
Public schools fret that kids are not coming back
Even as a handful of public school districts in the U.S. revert to online-only learning in the face of coronavirus spread, an even bigger worry looms over public schools: what…
The rise of microschools and educational entrepreneurship
We’ve written a great deal about how parents are seeking out, and embracing, alternatives to traditional public schools. But what about teachers? It seems they, too, are questioning the traditional…
Bloomberg gets behind charter schools
Education was a major issue in the recent Virginia gubernatorial election, as parents who were unhappy with their local schools got behind the Republican nominee and his promise to accelerate…
How to waste a pile of federal education money
The nation’s public schools got more than $100 billion in federal aid to help them safely reopen after the worst of the coronavirus passed. It’s been several months since those…
San Francisco school board recalls symptom of larger need for education choice
Parent frustration with public school leadership and policies has become a force to reckon with at the ballot box. That frustration helped propel the GOP to a win in Virginia’s…
Milton Freidman is still right
As we review the headlines in the financial press and see more stories about rising prices, supply problems, labor shortages, and outlandish government spending, we’re reminded that once, not so…
Rethinking re-enrolling in public school
One trend that developed during the wave of school closures during the depths of the coronavirus was parents enrolling their one-time public school kids in alternative education programs. The question…
Court backs private schools’ rights to operate without undue state interference
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision recently that said California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s order closing both public and private schools before the beginning of the 2020-2021 school…