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Julie Smyth | July 12, 2024 (The Lion) — Public school districts nationwide are closing some schools permanently as they grapple with declining enrollment based on demographic changes and the explosion of interest in alternative education. School district staff in Woodland Park, Colorado, for example, are scrambling to consolidate two elementary schools before classes start in the […]

Jillian Schneider | July 9, 2024 (The Lion) — The K-12 educational scholarship program in West Virginia will officially be available to all students in fall 2026. “I’m thrilled to announce that Hope Scholarship Program enrollment numbers have met the threshold established by the Legislature to expand this program to all West Virginia school children,” said State

Jillian Schneider | July 6, 2024 (The Lion) — Florida’s public school students continue to improve in core subjects, recent testing data revealed. The Florida Department of Education (FDOE) released the latest test scores on Monday, using year-of-year analysis and “progress monitoring,” which tracks learning over the course of a single year. “The substantial gains achieved by

Jillian Schneider | June 19, 2024 (The Lion) — Condoleezza Rice was once the highest-ranking woman in the U.S. government. Now, the issue closest to her heart is one often left out of the national conversation: school choice.   In an interview with the Ronald Reagan Foundation, the former secretary of state addressed a wide array of social

Jillian Schneider | June 15, 2024 (The Lion) — Philadelphia students who receive school choice scholarships are twice as likely to be proficient in reading and math, a new report reveals. Children’s Scholarship Fund Philadelphia (CSFP), a nonprofit scholarship-granting organization in Pennsylvania, released a report that found school choice students easily outperformed their public-school counterparts in the

Jillian Schneider | June 5, 2024 (The Lion) — School choice programs are exploding across the nation, and Indiana is no exception. The Indiana Department of Education (DOE) released a new report on its Choice Scholarship program, which initially launched in 2011 and expanded to become nearly universal last year. Participation is limited to families at or below 400%