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The graduates: charter school success
IN A MARCH speech on education policy, President Barack Obama championed charter schools, praising their innovations and urging states to lift caps...
Reason, 07/01/09 by Lisa Snell · More from publication -
Overstimulating K-12: education spending
THE FINAL VERSION of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009--a.k.a. "the stimulus bill"--called for allocating about $115 billion for...
Reason, 05/01/09 by Lisa Snell · More from publication -
Preschool failures: missing benefits
THIS YEAR governors have continued to expand state-run preschool programs. Bobby Jindal, a Republican, signed a program to fund preschool for every...
Reason, 12/01/08 by Lisa Snell · More from publication -
Dems for vouchers: school choice surprise
MARION Barry, the famous (and notorious) former Washington mayor, still has the capacity to surprise jaded political junkies. Writing in The...
Reason, 10/01/08 by Lisa Snell · More from publication -
Big easy choice: schools in New Orleans
ONE UNEXPECTED by-product of Hurricane Katrina: New Orleans is now the only city in America offering unfettered public school choice. ONE...
Reason, 12/01/06 by Lisa Snell · More from publication -
Bad education: the high cost of "free" preschool
WHEN ACTOR-director Rob Reiner turns his focus to public policy, things get expensive. His latest tax referendum, dubbed Preschool for All, would...
Reason, 06/01/06 by Lisa Snell · More from publication -
How schools cheat: from underreporting violence to inflating graduation rates to fudging test scores, educators are lying to the American public
ON MARCH 17, 2005, 15-year-old Delusa Allen was shot in the head while leaving Locke High School in Los Angeles, sending her into intensive care...
Reason, 06/01/05 by Lisa Snell · More from publication -
Defining the education market: reconsidering charter schools
Several economists and education researchers have argued that current school choice programs fall far short of a true market in education....
Cato Journal, The, 03/22/05 by Lisa Snell · More from publication -
School net scams: no tech firm left behind
PUERTO RICO HAS spent $101 million in federal grants to wire 1,500 public schools for Internet access. Yet the island-wide school district...
Reason, 10/01/04 by Lisa Snell · More from publication -
No way out: the No Child Left Behind Act provides only the illusion of school choice
LIKE EVERY JUNIOR high school student in Camden, New Jersey, 12-year-old Ashley Fernandez attends a school that has been designated as failing...
Reason, 10/01/04 by Lisa Snell · More from publication
