EDUCATION - School Choice - Independence Institute

Amy Oliver Show: What Do Americans Think About Standardized Tests, School Choice?0
- July 7, 2014
What do Americans think about standardized testing, Common Core, vouchers, and charter schools? Paul DiPerna shares insights from the Friedman Foundation’s new K-12 education national survey.
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Dougco Choice Spirit on Display with Aspiring Florida School Board Leader 0
- July 3, 2014
Writing over at redefinED today, Travis Pillow features a Floridian named Brian Graham, a school choice supporter who is running for his local Board of Education: If he’s successful this fall, he will join the small but growing ranks of school board members around the state – including his friend Jason Fischer in neighboring Duval […]
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Friedman Survey Finds Big Shift on Standardized Testing, Not to Mention….0
- June 30, 2014
For someone who has what some would consider an unhealthy fascination with education surveys, it has been awhile since I really delved into one of them. Back then, the big concern was about PDK/Gallup’s wording of a key question about school choice — adding the ominous phrase “at public expense.” This latest survey of a […]
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Florida Doubles Number of States with Cutting-Edge Choice through ESAs 0
- June 23, 2014
“And then there were two.” Usually that phrase suggests narrowing down the field, like moving to the championship round of your favorite sport with only the two finalists left to vie for the title. Or maybe like tomorrow in Colorado, it means narrowing down the field of major party candidates to one each. But today’s […]
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Accelerating Quality Colorado Charter Growth a Wise Idea, Not Just for Wonks 0
- June 19, 2014
Are you more likely to think of policy wonks as “wild and crazy” OR as “wise”? I know, it’s a difficult call. The Fordham Institute’s Michael Petrilli apparently has enough optimism to lean toward the latter. His new Flypaper post, “The wise wonks’ hierarchy of charter school quality” distills the insights of the blog’s recent […]
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Study Gives Another Jeffco Anti-Charter Myth a Serious Blow 0
- June 18, 2014
Tomorrow the Jeffco school board is set to cast a final vote on the 2014-15 budget. At the forefront of the discussion is the 3-2 majority’s proposal to share an extra $3.7 million of local property tax funds with public charter schools. Even though that would cut the gap in half, some still seem to […]
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