School Vouchers News

It is disgraceful the way Education Secretary Arne Duncan dodges and weaves while back-stabbing some 1,700 D.C. schoolchildren whose hopes and dreams are set on the District's school voucher program.

Time for a status report on all the different ways Milwaukee children can use public money to pay for their kindergarten through 12th grade education: a Private school voucher program enrollment: Up almost 5% from a year ago, just as it has been up every year for more than a decade.

President Obama and other Democrats are battling among themselves over school vouchers, with low-income D.C. schoolchild ren caught in the middle.

Time for a status report on all the different ways Milwaukee children can use public money to pay for their kindergarten through 12th grade education: Private school voucher program enrollment: Up almost 5% from a year ago, just as it has been up every year for more than a decade.

The National Education Association has launched a $50 million campaign to put Sen.

An appeals court has affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit that would have paved the way for a voucher program for students attending "failing" public schools in New Jersey, the Education Law Center announced today.

Optimism that the District's federally funded school voucher program will be allowed to flourish is fading.

Water Bill 2009/Water Bond 2010 She voted against the Water Bill and will be campaigning against the subsequent $11.1 billion bond coming up for vote before the electorate.

On the last day of the National Education Association's convention this summer, its outgoing general counsel, Bob Chanin, gave a speech for the ages.

In 1998, when 71 percent of Florida voters endorsed a constitutional amendment to make it a 'paramount duty' of the state to provide quality education to students in our public schools, it was anticipated that several years might pass before this well-intended concept had enough meat on its bones to be enforceable.

MEMBER of Parliament for St Mary South Eastern Tarn Peralto has introduced a computer-based programme in three schools to foster literacy among the 1,200 children in his constituency.

If states truly want to improve their education systems, they need to do away with the rules, regulations, and bureaucracies that stymie innovation.

Gov.-elect Christopher J. Christie reiterated many of the themes of his campaign in an appearance at a suburban New Jersey high school yesterday, and offered glimpses of his personal life at the end of the campaign trail.

Amid this recession, families across New Jersey are struggling to keep up with basic needs, including securing the education of our children, yet the state chooses not to do all it can to assist private education in this crucial endeavor.

TUESDAY'S Christie victory can be traced back to former Gov. Tom Kean Sr. When Kean was still a state assemblyman he spoke at a high school in Livingston.

David Paterson is the fourth African American and only the second legally blind governor in U.S. history.

Gov.-elect Christopher J. Christie of New Jersey, basking in praise from Republicans who hailed him as the party's new star, said Wednesday that he would move quickly to suspend new regulations on business and find ways to lower crushing property taxes, the nation's highest.

The Republican Party has to move from a pro-business strategy that defends the interests of existing companies to a pro- market strategy that fosters open competition and freedom of entry.

The long, brilliant, troubled and controversial career of Hamilton's Michael A. Fox can only be called a case study in contradictions.

This story was filed on April, 1, 2009, as Michael Fox formally retired as director of Butler County Children Services.