Articles
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Education
Free Market Friday: Desegregation through choice
Efforts to help the most vulnerable through school choice have received quite the boost.Jonathan Small | February 27, 2016
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Education
Free Market Friday: Empower parents
Across the country, many are celebrating this week as National School Choice Week. In fact, Martin Luther King III recently marched with more than 10,000 people at a rally calling for more educational choices for families and students.Jonathan Small | January 29, 2016
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Education
ESAs: A Blueprint for 21st Century Parental Choice
Sixty years ago the late Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman published a radical idea: just because we fund schools through government doesn’t mean politicians know how to run schools or what education is best for other people’s children.Vicki Alger | January 6, 2016
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Education
Education Savings Accounts: A Blueprint for 21st Century Parental Choice
Sixty years ago the late Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman published a radical idea: just because we fund schools through government doesn’t mean politicians know how to run schools or what education is best for other people’s children.Vicki Alger | January 1, 2016
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Education
Personalized Account Has Made All the Difference
Seven years ago, when Katie Swingle’s son was only 18 months old, a doctor reported that her boy’s autism would probably prevent him from ever being able to speak. Today, Katie’s son is not only communicating orally, but he’s also writing—in cursive! And Katie says the Florida Legislature is partly to thank.William Mattox | January 1, 2016
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Education
The New Frontier for School Choice
Nevada’s new school choice program is getting national attention because it’s the first in the nation to provide universal school choice. However, that’s not all that’s new about it. It’s also an Education Savings Account (ESA) program, which is the new frontier in school choice programs.Greg Forster, Ph.D. | January 1, 2016
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Education
Scholar says school choice ‘is now mainstream,’ but fears regulatory overreach
As enthusiasm for school choice rises across the political spectrum, opponents remain determined and willing to spend lots of money, some of it from the public well, to reverse, cap, or smother choice. Meanwhile, the vast majority of school-age children most in need of better education remain stuck in schools based on ZIP code, rather than on the preferences of students or parents.Patrick B. McGuigan | December 18, 2015
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Education, Law & Principles
Teacher’s stand against union reaches high court
Trent England | December 17, 2015
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Budget & Tax, Education, Higher Education
Free Market Friday: Tax hike unwise
The vast majority of Oklahomans agree that teachers have earned a significant pay raise. But hiking taxes to fund raises is a risky and damaging proposition. Fortunately, my colleagues have identified hundreds of millions of dollars in annual savings in state spending that would fund those raises, with no tax increase at all.Jonathan Small | December 12, 2015
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Education
School Choice Reduces Racial Segregation
School choice increases integration, and that’s good for everyone.Brandon Dutcher | December 7, 2015