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“A Monumental and Cascading Moment for the school choice movement”
All Republican-led states have passed a school choice bill, New Hampshire expanded its school choice programs. And we still have the ECCA in Congress!
Your kid is "too active", "too distracted", or "can not focus"
If you ever heard this from an educator, read this NYT article. Plus class size law, NAEP, and too much staff and not enough students in DC
Can the left deliver education abundance?
Mostly red states are easing the way for new and innovative schools, blue states must remove unreasonable barriers or risk staying behind in education…
New York’s Schools Chancellor Is Failing to Meet the Moment
Melissa Aviles Ramos’s first major initiative neglects the city’s major education crises: rampant learning loss, declining enrollment, and chronic…
Learning communities, DOE corruption and more absenteeism
What learning communities have had the biggest impact on your kids or students?
NYC spent $1B on learning loss since 2021 with no results to show
But NY charter schools are the best in the country in getting low-income students to proficiency in math based on the latest NAEP
NY media is discussing high absenteeism in our schools
The reaction to my Issue Brief for the Manhattan Institute on chronic absenteeism
We can't teach kids who are not in school
My new report shows how prevalent chronic absenteeism is in NY and what can be done about it
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The Educational Choice for Children Act and cuts to the Department of Education
Lots of action on education news at the federal level this week - all we know (so far) is here
NY Education: $37 Billion Budget, Lavish Salaries and No Learning
NAEP shows that our kids are not learning - but our education officials are too busy raising their salaries to pay any attention
Record education spending and slower charter growth
New report confirms what we have been saying: NY is #1 in education spending, but has mediocre results for kids and low school choice
As New York’s Public School Spending Surges, Accountability Gets Short Shrift
Lower state standards, no more HS Regents exam and soon no data on chronic absenteeism
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