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Friday Freakout: Should Conservatives Support School Choice?

…dollars to one or multiple schools and service providers. Unspent money remains in the account for parents to use on a host of educational expenses or to be saved for…

The 2017 EdChoice Yearbook Superlatives

…weighed purchasing power, funding stream stability and the ability of parents to use their funds flexibly to determine the educational choice program that empowers the most families. Nevada’s Education Savings…

Hoosier Views on Indiana’s School Vouchers and More Survey Snapshots

…escalated tremendously over the past few. Survey results suggest some frustration among voters, in general, and school parents in particular. Nearly half of all respondents (48%) said the amount of…

Seven Survey Snapshots of Colorado’s K–12 Education Landscape

…parents to take their child out of a public district or charter school, and receive a payment into a government-authorized savings account with restricted, but multiple uses. Parents can then…

Schooling in America Series Roundup

…these questions and more using survey responses from 777 public school teachers. 2. Schooling in America Series: Getting to Know School Parents Find out to which types of schools parents…

What New Teen Polling Tells Us About the State of K-12 Education in 2024

…allowing cell phones in the classroom. Our most recent poll of parents painted a different picture. While 71% of parents supported the idea of students having their cell phone at…

Friday Freakout: Is Overregulation Inevitable?

…they could finance by giving parents vouchers redeemable for a specified maximum sum per child per year if spent on “approved” educational services. Parents would then be free to spend…

Milton Friedman, the Father of School Choice . . . ESAs?

…parents use ESAs to purchase multiple educational services to accommodate their children’s’ diverse needs. That is, they did not limit their children’s education to a traditional school building. Parents purchased…

What You Need to Know About the Legal Challenge to West Virginia’s Hope Scholarship

…the nation in 2021 when it passed into law an education savings account (ESA) program open to 93 percent of K-12 students statewide. Parents may receive the average per-pupil state…

Cool Schools: All-Boys High School Focuses on Building Brotherhood, Being Leaders

…system where we did not have this kind of money to play with. It was absolutely more meager, more humbling. My parents are both, you know, missionary Lutheran type parents…