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Thousands may not graduate in New Jersey after exit exam changes
Recent changes to New Jersey graduation requirements led to more than 10,000 students using an appeal process in which a portfolio of a student’s work determines if they are able to graduate. That’s at...
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Alexander to DOE: Get off my law
HAPPY WARRIOR: Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander wants DOE to reconsider a proposed rule he says contradicts the intent of the Every Student Succeeds...
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Los Angeles schools consider opening college savings accounts for all students
FINDING FUNDING: The Los Angeles Unified School District is considering a proposal to open college savings accounts for every student in the district. In a district that struggles to fund textbooks for...
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Teachers and tummy tucks: Buffalo’s $5 million bill for cosmetic surgery
COSMETIC CHANGES? The Buffalo teachers union and school board are at odds over a cosmetic surgery rider in the teachers’ contract. The Buffalo, New York, school board’s decision to end a $5 million...
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Friedrichs v. CTA: Case dead, but questions raised about teachers’ rights...
Part 10 of 10 in the series Friedrichs versus California Teachers Association BACK AGAIN SOMEDAY: Rebecca Friedrichs doesn’t want to pay for collective bargaining. Although the Supreme Court will not...
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Charter school expansion campaign launched in Massachusetts
VOTING FOR CHOICE: Residents in Massachusetts will vote on a ballot question about whether to allow more public charter schools. Great Schools Massachusetts, a pro-charter school group, collected and...
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Number of LA teachers in detention on the rise, as taxpayers foot...
A year ago, the Los Angeles Unified School District said it was taking steps to reduce the number of teachers relegated to “rubber rooms” — a derisive term for the place where school staff members land...
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Farming freely: An RNC interview with Liberty Farms’ Martha Boneta
FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM: Property rights advocate Martha Boneta is attending the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. The Republican National Convention in Cleveland is not Martha Boneta’s first...
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Colorado delegate backs Trump, but doesn’t like continued criticism of...
CIVICS LESSON: Colorado alternate delegate Jimmy Sengenberger says Donald Trump misrepresented his state’s election process after losing there to Ted Cruz. CLEVELAND – Jimmy Sengenberger, an alternate...
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RNC: Protesters keep protesting, GOP yells back
Several groups showed up to protest at the 2016 Republican National Convention held in Cleveland this week. CLEVELAND — It’s a scene so chaotic that at some points it’s difficult to guess which person...
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Colorado House candidate promotes school choice at RNC
LONG ODDS: GOP House candidate Casper Stockham faces a tough contest in Colorado’s 1st District. Casper Stockham, who is running for Congress in Colorado’s 1st District, worries that Centennial State...
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Party platforms offer dueling visions of school choice
CHOICE TALK: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and education reform advocate Campbell Brown discussed school choice at the Republican convention last week. In an election season likely to be dominated by the...
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What’s in a name? History, and quite a bit of money
NAME GAME: Parents, students and famous alumni are calling on school officials to change the name of a Falls Church, Va., high school named in honor of Confederate Gen. Jeb Stuart. The move would cost...
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As high court considers, Nevada family makes its case for ESAs
‘UNBELIEVABLY STRESSFUL’: Liz Robbins, a mother of seven, wants to use Nevada’s ESA law to send her two youngest children to a private school, where their health problems can be less of a hindrance to...
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DNC appearances by teachers union officials strayed far afield from education
TALKING POLITICS: Rebecca Friedrichs told Watchdog.org she was disappointed with the lack of focus on education by the heads of the teachers unions at the Democratic convention. For some, actor Scott...
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Louisiana voucher mom: ‘I still don’t know what I am going to do’
WAIT AND SEE: Ashleigh Bovia, a single mother from Baton Rouge, is frustrated that her 5-year-old daughter Ashanti is on a school wait list because of cuts in the Louisiana school voucher program. The...
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Douglas County likely to appeal judge’s ruling on school voucher program
A judge may have put Douglas County Schools’ voucher program on hold, but the fight over school choice south of Denver probably isn’t over. Board member Doug Benevento said the school board will likely...
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Proposed rule on student loan debt may harm colleges, students and taxpayers
LOAN RULE: A proposed rule governing student loan forgiveness could be a backdoor way to provide debt relief without Congress passing legislation. A proposed rule governing student loan forgiveness is...
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Denver embraces charter schools
Dan Schaller, director of advocacy for the Colorado League of Charter Schools, spoke Thursday at the Franklin Center’s Amplify Choice conference about the climate for school choice in his state. The...
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Education reformers clash with NAACP, Movement for Black Lives over charters
FIGHTING FOR CHARTERS: Black education reformers are speaking out against a call by the NAACP and the Movement for Black Lives, a group within the Black Lives Matter movement, to halt charter school...
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