Navigating School Choice in Blue States: Opportunities, Challenges, and Strategies
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Why Critics Should Think Twice Before Assuming Iowa’s ESA is Causing Tuition Hikes
Arizona bill seeks to make ESAs available to all by 2020
UPDATE April 7, 2017 This nearly universal expansion of Arizona’s education savings accounts (ESA), SB 1431, passed out of the Senate last night in a 16-13 vote. Since our original publication of this blog post, an identical companion bill—HB 2394—was introduced. The House bill also passed out of its chamber last night in a 31-28 […]
Nevada Teachers’ Union Poll Finds Support for Educational Choice
A Clark County voter poll commissioned by Nevada’s Clark County Education Association (CCEA), a local teachers’ union, and conducted by Quirk Global Strategies made the rounds in the news over the last week. This poll of 500 Clark County voters, administered in November, has some questions similar to those from EdChoice’s Nevada K–12 and School Choice […]
BRIEF: School Choice in the States August 2015
National Education Next released its ninth annual survey on K–12 education, “The 2015 EdNext Poll on School Reform: Public thinking on testing, opt out, Common Core, unions and more,” by Michael B. Henderson, Paul E. Peterson, and Martin R. West. The report also includes an interactive site of poll results. The Center for Education Reform […]
Friday Freakout: The Truth About Nevada’s Education Spending
As media coverage of Nevada’s new education savings account (ESA) program booms, so do online comments—both in support of and against the innovative new school choice program. A recent Las Vegas Sun article drew plenty from both sides. We think one response from this commenter deserves a reply: Harsh language aside, shecky vegas combines three […]
Top Findings from “Exploring Nevada’s Private Education Sector”
The creation of Nevada’s first school choice programs could be considered the “tipping point” for the private school choice movement. With legislators creating both the Educational Choice Scholarship Program and the Education Savings Accounts (ESA) program this year, Nevada became the 26th state to enact a private school choice program. Most important, the state’s ESA […]
Everything You Need to Know About Nevada’s Universal ESA Bill
At the start of 2015, our team voted Nevada the state most likely to succeed that session, and it blew away our expectations. In April 2015, the state enacted its first school choice program, a tax-credit scholarship for low- and middle-income families. On May 29, the Nevada Assembly passed Senate Bill 302, a universal education savings account (ESA) […]
Explaining Tennessee’s ESA Bill
We are excited to soon welcome Tennessee to the school choice family. Tennessee is on the verge of joining Arkansas and Nevada, two of our nation’s newest school choice states, by becoming the 27th state to enact its first school choice program. Having worked with dedicated policymakers and parents in Tennessee for many years, we are […]
Mississippi’s ESA Bill Breakdown
As the first national private school choice organization to work with parents and advocates in Mississippi, beginning several years ago, we are excited to share the news about their recent success. The Mississippi legislature passed Senate Bill 2695, an education savings account (ESA) program for children with disabilities that is now headed to Gov. Phil […]