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Friday Freakout: What to Do When Editorial Boards Don’t Fact Check ‘Expert’ Claims
Amidst the celebration of National School Choice Week, Indiana’s Journal Gazette published an editorial calling for an independent, empirical study of Indiana’s school voucher program. That is a fair ask and not actually the catalyst for today’s freakout. One very powerful word inspired my piece today: anywhere. In its editorial, the Journal Gazette team relied […]
“The Integration Anomaly” Author Responds to Critics
My report, The Integration Anomaly, relies on dozens of empirical studies and logic from simulation models calibrated to real-world data to make a claim that universal school choice programs can be designed to promote greater race and class integration. In recent decades, Americans have been making free choices in myriad areas that are leading to […]
Friday Freakout: Responding to “Why White Parents Won’t Choose Black Schools”
“You don’t want to make the same choice I made. That must make you (fill in the blank).” In an atmosphere where statements like that are the dominant rhetoric, it’s hard to have a real, productive conversation about educational choices. In today’s freakout, we endeavor to nonetheless. Last month, Atlanta-area teacher and mom Abby Norman […]
Friday Freakout: Are Nevada Secular Private Schools Affordable with ESAs?
As the rollout of Nevada’s nearly-universal education savings accounts (ESAs) continues, parents have plenty of questions. We saw some great ones in response to this July article detailing the ESA’s early application period. One conversation between commenters caught our attention: Last month, we released a new report—Exploring Nevada’s Private Education Sector. Today’s freakout answers many […]
Friday Freakout: What Teachers Say about School Choice vol. 2
We’re back this week with the second installment of this series, which features Facebook feedback we regularly receive from teachers across the country. In our first post on the topic, we said, “Our ultimate hope is teachers, many of whom might be reading right now, will see that we aren’t all talk. We do listen. […]
Friday Freakout: What It’s Like to Engage Opponents of School Choice
We had a long conversation with an avid opponent and activist against school choice on Twitter recently, and we learned a lot about engaging opponents of school choice in the process. Today’s freakout looks very different from our usual format, but we think it packs as much, if not more, punch in terms of utility. […]
Friday Freakout: School Choice is OK Over There, Families Here Shouldn’t Have It
A Sarasota County School Board member spoke out against her own state’s school board association for suing Florida’s Tax Credit Scholarship Program this week in Florida’s Herald-Tribune. She wrote, We are very fortunate to offer a variety of remarkable programs for our students in Sarasota County. However, at times, what we are offering may not […]
Friday Freakout: Public School Defenders Say Disgruntled Parents Should ‘Move On’
Stories like Avery’s, the subject of Petula Dvorak’s Washington Post article “In D.C., a 13-year-old piano prodigy is treated as a truant instead of a star student,” elicit passionate, sometimes surprising, responses. Shortly after the release of that article, the D.C. Public Schools chancellor issued a statement saying the article was inaccurate. To clear Dvorak’s name, […]
Friday Freakout: Parent vs Parent
A North Carolina judge recently ruled the state’s voucher program unconstitutional. Today we have two freakouts from two very different parents commenting on the News & Observer article, “NC to appeal ruling banning taxpayer money for private schools.” On the positive side, it is wonderful Ms. Forbes is involved in her children’s education and they […]