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Today’s freakout comes from a reblog at the anti-school choice National Education Policy Center (NEPC), which is funded in part by the two largest national teachers’ unions. In it, author P.L. Thomas makes many claims that would get any school choice supporter’s hackles up. Instead, we decided to examine each from a practical perspective. 1. […]
The Friedman Foundation team put in our votes, and these are our winners. Check them out and tell us how you would have voted in the comments. Most Popular Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program If we gauge popularity by the number of families utilizing a program with real purchasing power, Florida’s tax-credit scholarship program would […]
We’ve helped our readers see how many families are eligible for school choice programs across the country and those who actually participate. Until now, the question still remained: Which programs realistically give families the financial ability to choose something other than their zoned public school? Read on for the final installment in our series of […]
Universal eligibility—that is, open to every single family—is the Friedman Foundation’s school choice policy goal. To coincide with the 2015 release of The ABCs of School Choice, we’ve ranked the America’s school choice programs by how close they get to our vision of 100 percent eligibility. Importantly, as the participation rankings showed, just because a […]
Which school choice programs are the biggest? Smallest? How does one state’s program stack up to others? For the 2015 release of The ABCs of School Choice tomorrow, we’ve ranked America’s school choice programs by how many participants they’ve helped based on the most recent data available. 1. Illinois Tax Credits for Educational Expenses Tax credit/deduction […]
We had a long conversation with an avid opponent and activist against school choice on Twitter recently, and we learned a lot about engaging opponents of school choice in the process. Today’s freakout looks very different from our usual format, but we think it packs as much, if not more, punch in terms of utility. […]
TOP FIVE 1. Kansas joins the school choice family It was not the same old song for education funding in Kansas this year. Rather, policymakers rose above the noise and confusion against private school choice, and included in their budget a tax-credit scholarship program for low-income students confined to low-performing schools. Given the program’s two-year […]
We looked into our blog analytics to find out which blog posts Friedman Foundation readers viewed and engaged with most this past year. We hope you enjoy reading, or re-reading, this top content. Don’t see your favorite post in these lists? Help increase its visibility by sharing it and spreading the word on social media! Most […]
From Washington D.C. – The Ambrose Family Thanks to the Opportunity Scholarship Program, Joshua, twins Jacob and Shanice, Jonathan, and twins Selena and Joseph have been able to attend private school since kindergarten, at The Bridges Academy in Washington, D.C. The oldest of the siblings is now enrolled at Archbishop Carroll High School. Sadly, they […]
A Sarasota County School Board member spoke out against her own state’s school board association for suing Florida’s Tax Credit Scholarship Program this week in Florida’s Herald-Tribune. She wrote, We are very fortunate to offer a variety of remarkable programs for our students in Sarasota County. However, at times, what we are offering may not […]