School Vouchers News

PHILADELPHIA - Students from a Northeast Philadelphia Catholic school held a rally this afternoon to ask Pennsylvania lawmakers to pass "School Choice" legislation.

I would like to address some false arguments and misdirection in Robert Maranto's Sunday Viewpoints essay .

I want to thank Steve Sebelius for his Wednesday column on Republic Services and company officials wanting to renegotiate their contract to one-day-a-week trash pickup .

If you are wondering where the new rush to implement school voucher programs in state after state may be taking us, consider these developments from Louisiana.

The state of Minnesota has opened an investigation into the American Legislative Exchange Council.

Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, Attorney General of Virginia, is shown in this Examiner A file photo on March 29, 2012 addressing the media on charges brought against members of the Underground Gangster Crips involved in sex trafficking and prostitution.

Like too many families, military families are not always best served by their assigned public school and need more options when it comes to their children's education.

Donors seeking to improve public schools could get 75 percent of their money back in tax rebates if Rep.

Editor's note: Robert Enlow is President and CEO of the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice , the legacy foundation of Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman and his wife, Rose.

If you aren't familiar with the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, educate yourself, and quickly.

Last week's speech by Mitt Romney, in which he presented his education reform plan to a group of Latino leaders in Washington, drew attention mainly because he criticized teachers' unions and endorsed private school vouchers.

"In reading Romney's 35-page education white paper, I was struck by the contradiction between that boilerplate promise and the long string of new requirements that Romney would place on state and local governments," Bookman writes.

This could be a defining year for Texas Parent PAC. When Carolyn Boyle formed the group in late 2005, she and her rough bunch of ticked-off parents were looking to stock the Texas Legislature with public school advocates and run the Capitol's biggest school voucher pushers out of office.

The editorial board of Just Sayin' recently met to discuss our policy on the June 5 gubernatorial recall election.

Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington defended the lawsuits filed by the Archdiocese of Washington and 42 other Catholic institutions against the Obama administration's HHS mandate.

Gibson supported tea-party principles just 46 percent of the time in 2011, ranking him 83rd out of the 87 Republican freshman House members.

She doesn't want to send her 6-year-old daughter to a struggling public school in St.

The East Baton Rouge Parish School Board plans to cut spending for the fiscal year that starts July 1 but will still end up spending more than it expects to collect in revenue, according to a proposed general operating budget released Friday.

Anyone looking for fireworks among three Republicans running for the House District 120 seat probably left Friday's debate disappointed.

The state of Maryland may be nearing a public vote on the legalization of gay marriage.