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Legislation in the North Dakota House of Representatives has been recently introduced that would establish an education savings account (ESA) program for all North Dakota children...

By Vivian Jones An analysis by the South Carolina Education Oversight Committee (EOC) projected 70% of South Carolina third- through eighth-graders will fall behind in...

Legislation moving through the Missouri Senate would create a program providing Missouri children with access to education savings accounts (ESA): the Missouri Empowerment Scholarship Accounts...

The Republican Study Committee plans to introduce six school choice measures in the House on Thursday in response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, which...

By Richard Eber When I have referred to the current public education system in California as being “Marxist Lite,” I was sadly mistaken. In the...

An education savings account (ESA) program would benefit New Jersey both fiscally, by saving the state money, and non-fiscally, by accruing to New Jersey children the benefits that generally come with education choice programs, a fiscal analysis released by EdChoice finds.

The latest anti-school choice rant comes to us courtesy of Diane Ravitch, “a historian of education,” who is the Arthur Clarke of her field. When she writes, the reader is treated to science fiction dosed with a substantive amount of snake oil for good measure. In the current New York Review of Books, Ravitch’s “The Dark History of School Choice” is laden with cherry-picked half-truths and a level of fearmongering guaranteed to put a satisfied smirk on the face of every teacher union leader. Reviewing several books on the subject, she does correctly cite a few circumstances where the push for the privatization of schools was used to promote racial segregation, but her 3,700-word tirade is very light on facts, and is instead primarily an excuse to bash Betsy DeVos, Christianity and free market policies in education.

By Mary Margaret Olohan Online learning due to the coronavirus pandemic is tanking academic achievement in the largest school system in Virginia, a study from Fairfax County...

By Virginia Allen High schools across America are embracing a woke curriculum. Charles Fain Lehman, adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute, says he is troubled...

By Vince Bielski At a virtual town hall in Brooklyn about how the COVID-19 pandemic will change admissions to high-performing selective schools, New York City...