12 New EdChoice Website Features You Should Know About
BRIEF: School Choice in the States – May 2021
LEGISLATION Arizona The Arizona House Rules Committee voted to advance SB 1452, a bill that would expand eligibility for Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Account program to include students from low-income families or who are assigned to district schools with a high proportion of low-income students. The bill passed the Arizona Senate Education Committee by a vote of 5-3 and is now […]
The Year of Educational Choice Is Here
Public Opinion Tracker Deep Dive: Perspectives of Black K-12 Parents (April 2021)
With case rates dropping rapidly, the pandemic appears to be winding down in the United States. Over the coming months, parents, teachers, and school leaders will make important decisions about how to pick up the educational pieces and move forward. Because Black students and families have experienced learning disruptions and other consequences of COVID-19 differently […]
Open Letter: Reopening Schools Is A Life And Death Matter
To Any And All State Lawmakers Who Are Willing To Listen: Last August, I attended my very first open schools rally, and it made me want to do more. In October, my Girls Scout sister Olivia committed suicide due to the isolation from school shutdowns. Olivia’s death lit a fire inside me because I knew exactly […]
Project Nickel: A New Tool to Help Everyone Understand What Public Schools Spend
(Reposted with permission of Lincoln Network.) What does the local public school in your community spend per-student? A new tech tool developed by Lincoln Studio in partnership with EdChoice can give you an answer. Project Nickel is a first-of-its-kind search engine of U.S. public school per-student spending data required to be reported to the U.S. […]
BRIEF: School Choice in the States – April 2021
LEGISLATION Alabama HB 559 was introduced and referred to Ways and Means and Education Policy committees. If passed, the bill would allow a taxpayer to claim a tax credit of up to 75 percent of the tax liability of the of the taxpayer, not to exceed $75,000 per taxpayer or a cumulative amount of $30 […]
EdChoice Public Opinion Tracker: Top Takeaways April 2021
There appears to be light at the end of the 2020-21 tunnel. As one of the most disruptive school years ever draws to a close, many parents and educators are considering what comes next. COVID-19 has forced families to adapt to new rituals and expectations. It remains to be seen exactly how much parents want […]
The New 123s of School Choice – What You Need to Know
As you might have seen in an email or on social media, we are revamping The 123s of School Choice guide this year, making it fully digital. If you’re not familiar with The 123s report is, let us catch you up. Researchers from across the country have conducted almost 170 empirical studies (as of this […]
Florida Families Overwhelming Satisfied with School Choice Despite Complexity of Programs
Just as news broke that the Florida legislature was sending massive changes to the state’s school choice program to Gov. Ron DeSantis’s desk, researchers from Boston University and the University of Arkansas released a new study of Florida families’ experiences with two of the state’s private school choice programs. This legislative session, Florida lawmakers combined […]