EDUCATION - School Choice - Independence Institute

Choice Media K12 Video Reminds Colorado It’s Time to Move Ahead on Digital Learning 0
- July 13, 2012
Friday means I’m taking it easy, and leaving the work up to Choice Media TV’s Bob Bowdon, who interviewed Jeff Kwitowski of K12, Inc., to talk about online education in this 8-minute video:

K12’s Colorado Virtual Academy (COVA) is the state’s largest provider among many online schools parents can choose. COVA mom Lori Cooney notes that […]
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Coulson in Wall St. Journal: Too Many Teachers Means Time for Tax Credits 0
- July 10, 2012
Even though it’s the middle of the summer, your (no, really, it will be fun) homework assignment is to read the new Wall Street Journal guest opinion column by the Cato Institute’s Andrew Coulson:
Since 1970, the public school workforce has roughly doubled—to 6.4 million from 3.3 million—and two-thirds of those new hires are teachers or […]
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Would More States Adopt School Choice If I Took Blogging Breaks More Often?0
- July 5, 2012
I left you with a school choice summertime smile, took a couple weeks to bask in the sun, only to return to find a host of good news on which to report:

A bipartisan group of New Hampshire legislators overrode their governor’s veto to enact a brand-new tax credit scholarship program — the Cato Institute’s Adam […]
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Quiet D.C. Scholarship Program Expansion Gives Me a Summertime Smile 0
- June 20, 2012
Anyone who has followed my opinions here for awhile knows that I’m a big fan of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, which provides real choices to a small number of needy students in our nation’s capital. Well, I had to smile because the Washington Post reports this week that leaders from both parties in Congress […]
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K-12 Finance Reform Video Stars Differ on Weighted Student Funding Views 0
- June 18, 2012
Education Week last week ran with a story touting renewed local interest in the weighted student funding concept. Quoted in the story, the Center on Reinventing Public Education’s Dr. Marguerite Roza noted that while current budget pressures have sparked interest, the policy offers some real benefits:
Weighted student funding can also help promote nonstandard staffing models […]
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Parental Demand for Public Charter Schools Nationwide Growing Fast, Data Show 0
- June 15, 2012
A quick Friday freebie to wrap your mind around, compliments of Education Week’s Sean Cavanagh:
An estimated 610,000 students are on waiting lists to attend charter schools—a jump of about 200,000 from just two years ago, a national organization says.

The National Alliance of Public Charter Schools (NAPCS) — with its brand new executive director Nina Rees […]
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