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Education
Statewide School Choice Program Would Benefit Wage-Earners
Every child in America should have the same educational opportunity as do President Obama’s children. They enjoy school choice.Mark Costello | September 19, 2014
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Education
Policy Ideas for Safeguarding Our Children's Futures
Given that children are the key to a prosperous economy, what lessons should our political leaders always keep in mind when crafting public policy? Allow me to suggest three.Wendy Warcholik, Ph.D. | September 19, 2014
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Education
The Future of School Choice
Nonetheless, I still think it’s our battle to lose. Martin Luther King, sitting in that Birmingham jail, didn’t think he was losing. He knew he was winning. Never mind that the segregationists had all the money, all the laws, all the hoses, all the dogs, and all the guns. King had a just cause and an entrepreneurial spirit.Greg Forster, Ph.D. | September 19, 2014
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Education
The soul of moderation? Black Oklahomans for school choice
Now that I have your attention: Do black children and all children in American schools deserve choices?Patrick B. McGuigan | September 19, 2014
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Education
Another year, another wake-up call
To repeat: school choice improves public schools. Rather than once again hitting the “more government spending” snooze button, policymakers should respond to this latest wake-up call with robust school-choice policies.Brandon Dutcher | September 17, 2014
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Education
Educator says Oklahoma has ‘some really bad teachers.’ How do we get more good ones?
The 2014 Education Next survey, overseen by the Harvard Program on Education Policy and Governance, was released last month. Among other things, the survey asked Americans to grade the teachers in their local schools on the quality of their work.Brandon Dutcher | September 2, 2014
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Education
Oklahoma GOP Voters Prefer School Choice Over Same Old, Same Old
Two all-but-sainted gentlemen have stepped up to lead an Oklahoma exodus. Although neither has put it this way, “Let our children go” could be their mantra. These guys believe that in education policy, taxpayer resources should follow children, not bureaucratic dictates.Patrick B. McGuigan | September 2, 2014
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Education
OSF Helping Students Find the Place Where They Learn Best
The Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) recently held its annual Parental Choice Symposium in New Orleans—and in Tampa. I was invited to the symposium in my capacity as a board member of the newly formed Opportunity Scholarship Fund (OSF), which uses contributions creditable against state income tax to provide scholarships to private schools for low-income kids.Charlie Daniels | September 2, 2014
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Education
Bigotry bites into scholarship for disabled students
Last week, an Oklahoma County District Court decided that a program to help pay for disabled children to access private education cannot be used for religious schools.Trent England | August 31, 2014
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Education
A textbook case of misplaced priorities
One can’t help but recall the federal government shutdown last year, when President Obama selectively closed some national monuments. Sorry, veterans, we have to lock you out of the World War II memorial — the federal government doesn’t have two nickels to rub together.Brandon Dutcher | August 14, 2014