Now stepping to the plate for vouchers: New York Yankees catcher Jorge Posada.
He and wife, Laura Posada, who live in Tampa, are now the official spokespersons for HCREO, a group based in Florida that favors expanding school choice options for Hispanic children. The couple has [...]
Writing in the Washington Times, here is Virginia Walden Ford, founder and leader of DC Parents for School Choice:
With Congress phasing out the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, D.C. parents and students are looking to President Obama and his administration to step in and save the federal initiative, [...]
Former Florida governor Jeb Bush, now making the national rounds talking up our state's education accountability methods, took time from his busy schedule to write a column for the Friedman Foundation's School Choice Advocate.
The title is "Five Rules for School Reform." And they are:
Do what [...]Keep an eye on a subtle trend in the voucher debate. Past presidents (think President Clinton) took political heat over where they sent their children to school and their school choice positions. But President Obama is facing a slightly different and even more personal issue — his own education.
Over the past [...]
As Florida courts and lawmakers come to grips with a lawsuit challenging the adequacy of Florida's public school system, they should balance the competing interests of "uniformity" and "choice," Step Up for Students president Doug Tuthill writes in a column for the St. Petersburg Times:
"The meaning of words such" [...]
Traveling last week for work, I burned through several books on innumerable airplanes: Clint Bolick's Voucher Wars (a strikingly human and accessible account of his landmark work on behalf of school choice), Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach (read only if you want to wind up feeling spectacularly defeated and hopeless [...]
Parents, the application period for Pinellas school choice programs (magnets, fundamentals, career academies) for the 2010-11 school year is just around the corner, from Jan. 9 to Jan. 29. And this year, there's a new wrinkle -- an online application process. Read all the details here.
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