Are you interested in k-12 school funding following the student? Are you interested in allowing parents to choose where there child/ren go to school? The following article was published at The Washington Examiner and does a good job outlining the coming changes to school choice. Hardly anyone is talking about it, but Congress has just passed one of the most consequential education reforms in history. Tucked into the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is a provision that could transform how families access education, reshape the politics of schooling, and finally give parents the power to direct their children’s learning. The legislation establishes a first-of-its-kind federal tax credit … [Read more...]
School choice to reshape Wyoming students’ education
Washington State democrats and teachers unions are fighting to STOP school choice. Idaho recently took steps to support choice. Today we bring you an article from Mountain State Policy that you may find interesting....if you are wondering what neighbors are talking about. Wyoming residents are speaking loudly in support of school choice. In the first two weeks that residents could apply to receive $7,000 allotment per student under the Steamboat Legacy Scholarship Act--signed into law March 4 -- the Wyoming Department of Education received 3,484 applications, which includes 164 for Pre-K. Wyoming is one of multiple states this year, including Tennessee and Texas, that … [Read more...]
Is it time for a school-choice program in Washington State?
This article comes to us from City Journal.org and it's about New York State. Why change NY to WA? Because there are a lot of similarities between the two states politically and urban/rural mix of residents. Texas recently took a major step in this direction. So, read the article and substitute WA for NY and see what you think. It’s Time for a School-Choice Program in New York The school-choice movement scored a major win last week, when Texas governor Greg Abbott signed into law a $1 billion universal school-choice bill. Now, every Republican-controlled state has enacted school choice, and choice programs in one form or another operate in 35 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto … [Read more...]
Wyoming Becomes 15th State To Enact Universal School Choice
Published in the Federalist The act grants families an education savings account of $7,000 per student per year to allocate toward approved K-12 educational expenses. On Tuesday, Wyoming became the 15th state to enact universal school choice into law with Gov. Mark Gordon’s signature on the Steamboat Legacy Scholarship Act. The Cowboy State joins a rapidly growing group of states that have passed laws giving all (or nearly all) families statewide choice concerning their children’s kindergarten through twelfth-grade education. Those states are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, and West … [Read more...]
Who’s Afraid of School Choice—and Food Trucks—in Wyoming?
Today's article comes to us from The Daily Signal Teacher unions are racing to stop greater education choice from spreading to Wyoming. But parents there already know that more education options would be valuable for them, and special interest groups’ latest dirty political tactics only make them look desperate. “It’s either, you support families or you don’t,” says Mary Schmidt, a Wyoming parent in Natrona County, 40 minutes outside of Casper. “We want kids educated, and we have to acknowledge that education comes in different forms,” she said in an interview. Schmidt is a parent who homeschools her children and a member of the local Moms for Liberty chapter, but she also … [Read more...]
School Choice – Trump’s Vision
With the change in the White House there is an effort to bring "choice" to K-12 education. The Trump administration is moving forward with efforts to expand parental choice of K-12 education. In today's article published at USA Today. Trump trusts parents to know what's best for their kids. What a concept! | Opinion Former President Joe Biden spent the past four years doing the bidding of the teachers' unions, and the country’s kids have suffered as a result. So it is refreshing to see President Donald Trump prioritize what’s best for families when it comes to their children’s education. Case in point: Trump last week issued an executive order that directed the federal … [Read more...]
This National School Choice Week, It’s a Boom Time for Education Freedom
This article was published in REASON and The Rattler Jan 29th 2025 This week is National School Choice Week, and there's a lot to celebrate. Innovation in education was accelerated by pandemic-era school closures, as was interest in alternatives to one-size-fits-some schooling. With education funding following the student rather than being assigned to government-run institutions in a growing number of states, more families are choosing what works best for their kids—and the majority are satisfied with their decisions. Proliferating School Choice Programs "By the end of 2024, more than one million students in America were participating in a private school choice program," … [Read more...]
Churches Bring School Choice to Every State
This article comes from The American Spectator written by Lewis Andrews Until recently, the biggest challenge facing education reformers was persuading local politicians in states with powerful teacher unions to legalize what has come to be known as “school choice” — the public subsidy of multiple K-12th grade learning options. For while Americans have always had the legal right to educate their children outside the local public school, the cost of doing so at a private or parochial facility has effectively limited that freedom to more affluent families. And while parents have always had the theoretical ability to homeschool, this too has always been easier allowed than done. … [Read more...]
Inside America’s Education Revolution
From the Free Press. It's a 2 minute read. Many of the greatest American success stories started in a public school classroom. Presidents like Harry Truman, LBJ, and Ronald Reagan. Legal giants like Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Billionaires such as Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, Michael Bloomberg, and Steve Jobs. But is our school system the great engine of meritocracy it once was? Consider the following: Two-thirds of fourth and eighth graders aren’t proficient in reading, according to the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a.k.a. “The Nation’s Report Card.” Absenteeism nearly doubled between 2019 and 2023. Between 2018 and 2023, … [Read more...]
Study Finds School Choice Closes Low-Income Student Performance Gap Tyler Durden’s Photo by Tyler Durden
Original article at Epoch Times The findings of the Progressive Policy Institute’s (PPI’s) October report underscore the positive impact of public charter schools in driving academic improvements across entire school districts, not just for students attending charter schools. According to the report, the achievement gap between low-income students and their counterparts in Camden, New Jersey, which had 68 percent of students enrolled in charter schools by 2023, was reduced by 42 percent between the 2010–2011 and 2022–2023 school years. From 2011 to 2023, the proportion of students attending charter schools in Camden increased, resulting in an increase of more than 20 percent in … [Read more...]