Liberty
Blue States and School Choice
Lewis Andrews asks in a Federalist column: What will it take for blue states to embrace school choice? Last week, the president of the Chicago Teachers Union revealed she is…
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Education
Voucher opponents resort to “kitchen sink” approach
View in your browser. Welcome During the House Education Committee meeting yesterday, opponents of a proposed means-tested voucher bill, House Bill 944: Opportunity Scholarship Act, opted for the "everything but…
Education
Responding to critics of school vouchers
View in your browser. Welcome Public school advocacy groups are ramping up their opposition to school choice legislation proposed by a bipartisan group of legislators in the North Carolina General…
Liberty
More Opposition To Empowering Parents
I continue to scratch my head over the vehement opposition of the Big Education bureaucracy and its allies to empowering parents with the ability to send their kids to the…
Education
School voucher research
View in your browser. Welcome This week’s CommenTerry is an excerpt from my new report, "School Vouchers: From Friedman to the Finish Line." Representatives Jonathan Jordan, Marcus Brandon, Bert Jones,…
Liberty
A Good Primer On Vouchers
There’s no question there is momentum in North Carolina for expanding options to the traditional public school system. Public charter schools have gotten the most attention and action over the…
Education
Vouchers tend to offer the most transparent, easy-to-understand school choice option
Click here to view and here to listen to Dr. Terry Stoops discussing this Spotlight report. RALEIGH — A voucher program is likely to offer North Carolina the most transparent,…
Education
School choice: Crime-fighter
View in your browser. Welcome There is love in the air on this Valentine’s Day. Of course, I am talking about love for school choice! What other kind of love…
Elections & Public Integrity
Historian Ferguson likes Romney’s business background
Writing for Newsweek, Harvard historian Niall Ferguson highlights the strengths former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney brings to the presidential race. Ferguson addresses his comments to the late financier/philanthropist Ted Forstmann:…
Liberty
‘Democratic Libertarianism’ And Education
In the Locker Room, the JLF‘s blog, Mitch Kokai clued readers in on Markos Moulitsas’s, of DailyKos fame, notion of the ‘Democratic Libertarian’. I know most of you will cringe…
Liberty
What’s Next For Education?
When the Raleigh News & Observer planned an in-depth look at the No Child Left Behind law for its Sunday “Q” section, the paper’s staff asked Lindalyn Kakadelis to share…
Liberty
School Choice or Educational Freedom (long post)
We at the JLF like school choice. We think that the more choice there is the better-educated students will become, the more competition there will be, and the better the…