School Vouchers News

A very long and essential editorial today by Tracy Warner of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette surveys the important Indiana legal/policy issues before Indiana's state and federal courts: Courts have always played a major role in painting political landscapes, but the importance of the judiciary in determining public policy - and thereby influencing ... (more)

In a turn of events that threatens to lay waste to the central theme of the GOP challenge to Barack... If chocolate's the thing for your sweetie on Valentine's Day, why give plain old candy when you can... Louisiana, and Acadiana maybe most of all, have had reason to welcome economic news recently.

House Bill 1607 gives a tax credit of $2,500 to parents of non-public school children, reducing support for our public schools that serve nearly 90 percent of New Hampshire families.

I guess you noticed that Jason Rapert and Co., who propose to put state legislatures like Arkansas's in charge of the federal budget, brought in a hired hand from the Koch-financed American Legislative Exchange Council for their publicity stunt this week.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal took his push to overhaul his state's school systems - and his fight with teachers unions - to Washington Saturday, telling a gathering of conservatives activists that unions are holding back his reforms.

You're not going to win many friends in public school hallways by uttering nice things about Tony Bennett, Indiana's superintendent for public instruction. Bennett has been the face of education reform in Indiana - a process that hasn't won a ton of favor among teachers, superintendents and school boards now juggling new expectations and navigating the pressures to private school vouchers and additional administrative hoops. But there's something to the feet-to-the-fire approach Bennett has brought when the latest round of high school graduation rates were released this week. Indiana's graduation rate for 2010-11 was 85.7 percent, up 1.6 percentage points from the rate in 2009-2010. The bulk of the credit for the boost in graduation rates belongs to school districts that have taken the embarrassment of numbers that came out several years ago and found better ways to get borderline kids to a diploma. And those rates still show that there's plenty more work where that came from. But give Bennett credit for being unapologetic about making school accountability high profile enough that districts didn't feel a soft spot in the system that allowed them to get comfortable somewhere between rationalizing and marginal results.

Detroit is bracing for another round of school closings. While lacking the arrogance of his predecessor, Robert Bobb, Emergency Manager Roy S. Roberts has made it clear more schools will be shut down.

More than quarter of the Indiana House Democrats who unsuccessfully fought passage of the state's new right-to-work law won't try for re-election this year, further boosting the chances of Republicans strengthening their hold on the chamber.

U.S. Senate candidate Erskine Bowles told a cheering crowd of county Democrats Thursday that gaining Lumbee federal recognition would be one of his first priorities upon taking office.

President Barack Obama granted New Jersey an exemption from federal education requirements on Thursday, which helps to clear the path for teacher tenure reform and other measures proposed by Gov.

Education reform used to be a good thing. Back in the 1800s, education reform meant making education available to all.

On January 20, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius finalized regulations for preventive services under Obamacare that require religious institutions beyond churches to provide and pay for contraceptives, abortion-inducing drugs, and sterilization in their health coverage.

NJ.com users, still basking in the New York Giants' win over the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl, flocked to this photo gallery which shows fans and players celebrating at the Meadowlands.

I offer the following translation of Rep. Will Smith's column about the Republican agenda for New Hampshire education: "Well, yes, we can't really say it but we Republicans are fundamentally against public education.

The Florida House is advancing an education budget with a warning shot to school districts and specifically to Seminole County schools: try to raise taxes, and we'll take away your salaries and ability to close schools.

Gov. Christie today called for the resignation of a leader of the state's largest teacher's union in the wake of the union leader's seemingly dismissive remark about poor children in failing school districts.

Gov. Chris Christie is calling for the executive director of the New Jersey teacher's union to resign over comments the union chief made about the limited educational options available to poor families.

St. William Grammar School will close in June after 88 years of Catholic education, and eighth-grader Tracy Glova cites a lack of government vouchers as one reason why.

Gov. John Kasich went to the eastern Ohio city of Steubenville to deliver Tuesday's State of the State address at a top-performing public elementary school.

During Tuesday's State of the State address, Ohio Gov. John Kasich unveiled plans to reorganize state job training programs, boost broadband network speeds across the state, expand school voucher programs and make it easier for felons to get out of prison and back to work.