Tag: privatization
The question: Boost or boot vouchers in Maryland?
Should Maryland increase the funding for vouchers that help public school students attend private schools or throw the program out?
Trump addresses Congress for the 1st time
Donald Trump delivered a speech before a joint session of Congress last night, denouncing bigotry, calling for school choice, and pleading for harmony.
Orlando schools hide students who drop out
Schools in Orlando appear to be gaming the system in order to keep letter grades for the high schools high, even though students aren't being served.
Sticks and stones at the president’s motorcade
Violence distracts our national focus away from more important matters, like a bill now in the US House that will voucher-ize the nation's schools.
Kids worse off in Ohio online charters
Bigger results now coming in show that online or virtual charter schools do not provide an effective education for students, here in Ohio.
K12 Inc. gets a boost with DeVos
It's possible that a momentary rally in the price of K12 Inc. stock was driven, in part, by the confirmation of Betsy DeVos as US secretary of education.
Senate confirms Trump’s pick for ed. sec’y
Betsy DeVos is the next US education secretary, following a close confirmation vote in the US Senate this afternoon.
Why Republicans should oppose Betsy DeVos
The Senate could vote to confirm Betsy DeVos as education secretary as early as Feb. 7. Here's what they will get.
On Trump’s nomination for education secretary
We check some facts about the nomination of Betsy DeVos as US secretary of education. We find her lacking in qualification for the job.
Fla. court won’t hear voucher case
FL's Supreme Court won't hear a case that teachers' unions say would challenge the constitutionality of private school voucher programs.










