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The School Choice Train Makes Its Next Stop: Arkansas Gov. Says Yes to Special Needs Vouchers 0
- April 10, 2015
Another Friday is upon us, my friends. And what a Friday it is! Birds are chirping, the sun is shining, and school choice just keeps on flourishing. That’s right, Nevada’s big success wasn’t the end of the story. Arkansas has now come aboard the school choice train! Two days ago, Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson signed […]
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Tick, Tock: Accountability Clock Leading Some CO School Districts to Watershed 0
- April 9, 2015
Tick, tock. Tick, tock. Not many clocks today actually make that noise anymore. But even with the digital timepieces we’re more accustomed to now (and are pretty much all little people like me have known), if you set the alarm you know that it’s bound to go off at some point. Whether it’s a soothing […]
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Keep That School Choice Train A-Rollin’: Nevada Prepares to Join the Scholarship Tax Credit Club 0
- April 8, 2015
Man, it’s been an exciting two weeks for school choice. Last month, we celebrated Alabama’s induction into the charter club after it become the 43rd state to pass a charter law. We paused briefly to remember Colorado’s now-dead attempt at an ESA law, then proceeded to revel in the glory of freshly encouraging research on […]
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Middle-Income Families Have Long Track Record in Building Colorado Charters 0
- April 7, 2015
Even someone as young as me has heard the familiar expression, “Everything old is new again.” That’s what I couldn’t help thinking today when my Education Policy Center friends told me about Richard Whitmire’s new Education Next piece titled “More Middle-Class Families Choose Charters.” Maybe that’s just because I’m so attuned to watching these things […]
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Charters Off the Beaten Path: A Different Kind of Roadtrip 0
- April 3, 2015
This has been a good week. I got to write what I hope you thought was a funny April Fools’ Day post, and yesterday I had the pleasure of highlighting some exciting developments in what is quickly shaping up to be another year of school choice. The week before that, I talked about the awesome […]
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One Week’s Progress Gives Hope for Another Year of School Choice 0
- April 2, 2015
Awhile back I asked the pertinent and hopeful question: Could 2015 turn out to be the Year of School Choice: Part II? Now that your split sides have had ample time to recover from yesterday’s laugh-out-loud April Fool’s posting, let’s look back on the updates from just the past week. To do so, we really […]
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