School Choice Is the Answer to Underperforming Schools

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Derrick Max | January 24, 2024 (Richmond Times-Dispatch) — As a founder and former principal of Cornerstone Schools of Washington, D.C., one of many innovative private and charter schools serving low-income, academically challenged students in D.C.’s poorest neighborhoods, I am saddened that so few options like Cornerstone exist in Richmond and other underserved communities throughout the

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Public Education’s Alarming New 4th ‘R’: Reversal of Learning

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Pictured: American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten (Credit: US Department of Education) Vince Bielski | January 23, 2024 (RealClearInvestigations) — Call it the big reset – downward – in public education. The alarming plunge in academic performance during the pandemic was met with a significant drop in grading and graduation standards to ease the

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This National School Choice Week, Let’s Celebrate Return to Founding Principles

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Rachel Alexander Cambre | January 22, 2024 (The Daily Signal) — The school choice policies sweeping the nation may be among the most innovative—and promising—enacted in recent memory. Yet they also embody a return to principles first enshrined in American law nearly 400 years ago. In 1642, when the Massachusetts Bay Colony crafted the nation’s first education law,

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