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Amendment 80 could set up a court challenge that may open up the use of public funding for private schools.
Officials have vowed to keep fighting for permission to open the school as a charter – which would be a controversial first for the country.
In 1922, Oregon voters approved an initiative to require public school for most students ages 8-16 − but it didn’t hold up in court.
With Donald Trump absent again, Republican presidential hopefuls took potshots at each other but agreed that Bidenomics isn’t cutting it.
The school’s approval may be the strongest challenge yet to limits on public money in religious schools.
Using public funds to support students at private religious schools is one thing, but establishing faith-based institutions within public districts is another.
School choice already abounds in Ontario. Adding charter schooling in the name of ‘choice’ won’t help student achievement.
An education professor explains how a hit TV show about a struggling school became a jumping-off point for a course about urban education.
Most school-choice programs in the US have been approved by lawmakers. But when asked for their views, voters have overwhelmingly rejected them.
Teachers who take alternative routes to being certified tend to leave their positions sooner than educators who go through colleges of education, new research shows.
Charter school enrollment grew during the pandemic. But behind these schools’ rising popularity is a history of harsh discipline, inaccessibility and targeted marketing.
Howard Fuller’s support for school choice is connected to the Black Power movement and a pursuit to provide Black students a quality education by any means necessary.
A select group of charter schools have adopted a “no-excuses” philosophy. A forthcoming book shines the light on the drawbacks of that approach.
Long distances often preclude families in the Motor City from sending their kids to the best schools in the area, new research shows.
Letting parents choose which school their child attends positions parents as consumers, and often diverts students and funding away from public schools.
US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has resigned. Five experts comment on the impact she had on education.
Is the public education that Ruby Bridges fought to integrate a relic of the past?
The push to expand charter schools in the U.S. contributed to a robust movement of teachers’ unions and allies demanding a well-resourced public school system.
First, the United Conservative Party lifted the cap on charter schools, and now new legislation has cut school boards out of the process to establish a charter school.
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Joseph Panzer Chair in Education and Research Professor of Law, University of Dayton
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