Education (k-12)
Monday, April 23, 2007Georgia Passes First Voucher LawGeorgia Special Needs Scholarship Act Filed As: Education (k-12)Modeled after Florida's successful McKay Scholarship program, the Georgia Special Needs Scholarship Act, provides up to $9,000 for each special needs student currently enrolled in a public school. If signed by the ... more »»
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Friday, April 27, 2007Fund a Student, or the General Fund?Tuition tax credits popular with business Filed As: Education (k-12)You own a business, which means of course that you have an interest in a well-educated population. Given that, where would you prefer to send your tax dollars: to the general fund, where they will be swallowed up by a good deal of pork barrel spending, or to contribute to the education of a young ... more »»
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Thursday, April 26, 2007Charter School Advocates ConveneFiled As: Education (k-12)Even though the charter school idea has been around for 15 years, it still faces foot-dragging and opposition, not to mention misunderstanding. This point came home as I read a short write up from the more »»
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Thursday, April 26, 2007Charter School Expansion in ArkansasOne small victory for competition and choice Filed As: Education (k-12)The policy environment for charter schools ranges across the states from fairly favorable to suspicious and hostile. In Arkansas, the outlook for charter schools got a little bit better. The Arkansas Policy Foundation reports in a memo (not online) that the ... more »»
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Friday, April 13, 2007Large Size Fits ... FewFiled As: Education (k-12)Does buying in bulk work? Not when it comes to schools. National Public Radio took a tour of some high schools in Baltimore, and offers up a report on smaller schools. By tiny steps, the behemoths of bureaucracy are being ... more »»
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007A "Special Place in Hell" for Charter School AdvocatesFiled As: Education (k-12)Political debates can get overheated, certainly, but one member of the education cartel invoked fire and brimstone in a discussion of charter schools. Ben DeGrow, of the Independence Institute, has the goods on how the chairman of the House Education Committee in the state ... more »»
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007Smart Billionaries Make Dumb Choice$60 Million to do More of the Same Filed As: Education (k-12)With public education now spending more money than the Pentagon and still delivering suboptimal results, you might think that two guys with a lot of money to throw around would call for some major changes. Sadly, such is not the case. Eli Broad and Bill Gates have announced that together their ... more »»
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007Georgia Think Tank Operates Successful Charter SchoolLow-income, minority students benefit from choice Filed As: Budget and Tax, Education (k-12)For three years, the Georgia Public Policy Foundation has operated a charter school in the Atlanta Public Schools system. In March, The Economist noted that GPPF's Tech High "spends ... more »»
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007Are All States Now Above Average?Test Score Discrepancies Abound Filed As: Education (k-12)Remember the town where all students are above average? A similar exercise in wishful thinking is occurring in the states. "Far greater shares of students are proficient on state reading and mathematics tests than on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, and those gaps have grown to ... more »»
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Tuesday, April 10, 20072006 a "Banner" Year for School Choice: StatelineFiled As: Education (k-12)Stateline.org offers a he-said, she-said update on the status of efforts to introduce competition to schooling through school choice measures such as vouchers and tax credits. Some efforts have in fact been repelled this year y ear, notably in Missouri and South Carolina. But Utah has enacted the ... more »»
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