School Vouchers News

Perhaps the best thing state legislators could do for Michigan moms would be to allow more educational options for children - at least according to the latest poll from the Friedman Foundation.

Wisconsin has long played a pivotal role in the national movement to redirect taxpayer dollars to private, often parochial schools.

Voucher students at the Upperroom Bible Church Academy in November 2008. The school is prohibited from accepting new students in fall 2013 due to its current students' low performance on standardized tests.

Wednesday, state democrats delivered more than 16,000 petitions to the Governor and Republican leaders.

Supporters along Lane Street in downtown Raleigh cheer on the 57 protesters who were arrested after the fourth Moral Monday demonstration at the State Capitol on May 20.

Just as the government cannot stop you from supporting a political candidate, it cannot make you pay to support a candidate.

Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval campaigned for office on a platform of attracting new businesses to Nevada and reforming public education.

At a D.C. Public Charter Board monthly meeting that nearly lasted into the following day the body approved two new schools out of nine accepted applications.

David A. Pickler, President of the National School Boards Association and member of Tennessee's Shelby County Board of Education, was featured in The Washington Post' s Answer Sheet today discussing the failures of school voucher schemes and the impact of the recent Louisiana Supreme Court ruling deeming their state's school voucher program ... (more)

It's a funding system that pays schools for failure. The court's decision rested on the voucher program's diversion of funds that are supposed to be allotted to public schools on a per-pupil basis.

State lawmakers are bracing for a frantic finish in Montgomery with the final day of the 2013 legislative session set for Monday.

One of Gov. Chris Christie's biggest antagonists is handing over her role at the top of the state's largest teachers union when her second term ends in August.

School voucher proponents should stop being defensive, stop trying to misdirect public concern over accountability and the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program's lackluster performance on the state's standardized test measure: the Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Examination.

This week on "UPFRONT with Mike Gousha," the leaders of the state Senate sit down with Mike to talk about expanding school vouchers, what to do about the struggling Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation and where to spend higher-than-anticipated state revenues.

Early childhood education groups are urging state lawmakers to preserve $5 million in funding for pre-school vouchers in the House budget.

Gov. Bobby Jindal shakes hands at a pro-voucher rallies on the Capitol steps on Wednesday, May 15, 2013.

The superintendent of a large suburban Harrisburg school district will be Gov. Tom Corbett's nominee for education secretary and replace Ron Tomalis, who after a busy and rocky two-year tenure will move into an advisory role in the administration, Corbett said Wednesday.

In a state that is divided on one political issue after another, there's at least an apparent point of agreement that unites Badgers: freezing tuition at the University of Wisconsin.

Gov. Bobby Jindal, R-La., will have to find a new funding source for school vouchers in the state now that the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled 6-1 the Minimum Foundation Program could not be used.

As mothers and grandmothers across America are toasted this Mother's Day, we find ourselves not just nurturing our children and grandchildren, but becoming increasingly frustrated with their assigned public schools.