School Vouchers News

It should come withA no surprise that the Florida private school voucher program has not helped raise student achievement, according to this article in the St.

A group of educational activists called the state's urban public schools inadequate today and urged legislators to give parents more options.

Children from Lea and Garsdon School are appealing for anyone with unwanted Sainsburya s school vouchers to donate them so they can get the last 50 they need for sports equipment.

Florida's highly politicized experiment with private school vouchers has always been couched as an effort to give poor children a better educational option.

Supporters often say school vouchers are lifelines to low-income students trapped in subpar public schools.

For this column, I am going to entertain Mr. Tom Slagsvol's letter to the editor in response to me in regards of the stimulus funds.

Every now and again, I argue that Democrats should support school vouchers because they will improve the public schools by removing the need to cater to the flat-Earth parents who will send their offspring to intelligent-design academies.

Editor's note: Gordon Meriwether's column will resume July 9. Many school choice supporters are discouraged after having suffered a series of setbacks on the voucher front, ranging from the loss of Utah's nascent voucher program last year to the recent death sentence handed to the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship program.

New Jersey Republican gubernatorial nominee Christopher J. Christie brought his school-choice plan to Camden yesterday, speaking at a second-chance high school's graduation and telling the students to help troubled friends get an education.

Those in Milwaukee who want changes in how the school voucher program is paid for said its disproportionate impact on Milwaukee is one reason for figures such as these: 14.6% - Increase a year ago in the tax levy for Milwaukee Public Schools, despite only a 2% increase in spending on MPS operations Milwaukee officials got a hit when they went to ...

For uncommonly large Orthodox Jewish families, they are a lifeline: vouchers from the city for after-school care, redeemable at a yeshiva of their choice.

GENEROUS Basildon shoppers have donated thousands of supermarket vouchers to help kit out a schoolroom for sick children in hospital.

The state Senate has always viewed itself as the big brother to the state Assembly's little brother - and with good reason.

Tony Bennett, Indiana's superintendent of public instruction, isn't afraid to be a lightning rod when it comes to making changes he believes will improve student academic achievement.

With enrollment as the lifeblood of schools in the Milwaukee area, it shouldn't be surprising that battles over enrollment are so bloody.

At the Robert Treat Academy, students sporting blue-and-green plaid uniforms fill the auditorium at 8:30 for morning announcements.

University of Notre Dame law professor Richard Garnett made a forceful argument for school choice in the latest Cazenovia Forum lecture, held on May 29 at the Catherine Cummings Theater.

Intense, behind-the-scenes negotiations have yielded changes in the rules for Milwaukee's controversial private school voucher program, imposing requirements substantially more like those of public schools but avoiding some of the provisions voucher supporters feared the most.

WASHINGTON a ' Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee say they will explore a school voucher program for the military, responding to complaints from military families that PCS moves sometimes force their children into failing schools.

In a recent letter to the editor in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Bishop Joseph P. McFadden, auxiliary bishop of Philadelphia, declared school vouchers would be a good thing for public education because "competition inspires excellence, holds leaders liable for performance, attracts talent and empowers the consumer." This sounds perfectly reasonable ...