School Choice on Townhall
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Kyle Olson“A Tale of Two Missions” – a film by Juan Williams and Kyle Olson (and directed by Chicago-based Andrew Marcus) – tells the story of competing cultures in American education through examples from Chicago. ... more
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Three Conservative Victories Tue Jan 17Cal ThomasWhile most attention is focused on the presidential race and Republican hopes to oust President Obama from office, some significant steps were taken last week on issues dear to the hearts of conservatives. ... more
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School Competition Rescues Kids Wed Oct 26John StosselFor years, American education from kindergarten through high school has been a virtual government monopoly. ... more
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Exciting Schools Wed Sep 21John StosselSchool spending has doubled over the past 30 years. Yet what do we get? More buildings and more assistant principals -- but student learning? No improvement. If you graph the numbers, the spending line slopes steeply, while the lines for reading, math and science scores are as flat as a dead man's EKG. ... more
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Vincent VernuccioOn Friday September 9, Michigan State Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville (R-Monroe) announced he would introduce legislation giving teachers in his state right to work protections. ... more
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Greg BaylorIn March 2011, the school board in Douglas County, Colo., voted 7-0 to implement a school voucher program. It was designed to provide concerned parents with 75 percent of the education money provided by the state for their children if the parents preferred to send their children to the private school of their choice. ... more
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And now, a school choice fight Wed Aug 31Townhall.com Staff
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Kyle OlsonWisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is living in Big Labor’s head – rent free. ... more
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The Year of School Choice Sat Aug 27Ed FeulnerWe’re used to hearing bad news from the education front -- poor test scores, falling literacy, slipping standards. But the new academic year brings a welcome change: school-choice programs have expanded significantly in recent months. Indeed, The Wall Street Journal has already dubbed 2011 “The Year of School Choice.” ... more
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Where Have All the Liberals Gone? Sat Aug 6John C. GoodmanSometime in the mid-1970s, near the end of the Vietnam War, liberalism in America died an intellectual death. Since that time, virtually every new idea — whether good or bad — about how to solve our most important economic problems has come from the right. Virtually nothing has come from the left. ... more
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Email, Hate Mail and Comments from Readers Sun Jul 17John RansomAnother week and another round of comments and answers from my friends, both conservative and progressive. I see Lilly and Goshawk and Odin and James. And the week wouldn't be complete if bin Leaded didn't resort to name-calling. I suppose if you are going to write 30,000 words per week on a message board, you are bound to call someone a name sooner or later. ... more
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Rejecting American Pessimism Mon Jun 13Mike NeedhamAchieving the American Dream becomes increasingly difficult when that dream is dependent upon bureaucrats and lawmakers in Washington who may or may not have your best interests at heart. ... more
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Kyle OlsonIt's not every day you will see a governmental body, in this case a school board, create competition for itself. But that's precisely what the Douglas County, Colorado school board did. ... more
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Kyle OlsonTo fix public schools, you have to control public schools. And there’s little control when teachers unions, with their self-serving agendas, question every cost-cutting proposal and reform on the table. ... more
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Kyle OlsonMany civil rights groups around the nation have strongly supported school choice initiatives, mainly out of concern for inner-city children who have traditionally been stuck in sub-par schools. So why isn’t the NAACP on board? ... more
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Kyle OlsonNow we know why unionists were fighting so hard for a federal “card check” law. Organizers can unionize private and public employees, forcing them to pay hundreds in union dues, before they even know anything about it. ... more
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Kyle OlsonSchool choice is on the move in Wisconsin, at least in Milwaukee County. ... more
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Star ParkerCriminal charges against one single black mother and conviction of another for sending their children to schools in districts in which they are not residents provide yet more indications of deep seated problems festering in our country. ... more
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Kyle OlsonLast week, my organization praised the Indiana lawmakers for passing some of the nation’s most significant education reforms. In one of Education Action Group’s weekly newsletters, we said that Indiana’s new voucher program and its decision to lift the cap on charter schools will transform the state’s public education system, to the benefit of all Hoosier families and students. ... more
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IndianaSchool choice legislation was signed into law in Indiana by Governor Mitch Daniels. ... more
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Kevin TheriotThe timing of the National Day of Prayer with the events of this week couldn’t be more appropriate if one would have planned it that way. ... more
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Union Battles: A Window for Parental Choice Sat Apr 30Howard RichThe defensive struggle that’s currently being waged by America’s public sector unions has the potential to usher in a renaissance of parental choice in our nation – assuming supporters of academic freedom are willing to seize this opportunity and resist the urge to settle for half-measures. ... more
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Scott Walker Is Just Getting Started Thu Apr 21Kyle OlsonWhen Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker curtailed collective bargaining privileges for public sector workers (formerly known as public servants), it resulted in all-out political war in Madison. Walker won the showdown, and now the state can get its financial house in order. ... more
