The One Big Education Opportunity with Shaka Mitchell
Susan Pendergrass speaks with Shaka Mitchell, senior fellow at the American Federation for Children, about how a new federal scholarship...
School Choice Case Study: Charter Schools in Los Angeles
A 2024 study published in Education Finance and Policy finds that enrollment in one of five popular charter high schools...
Our Thoughts on SB 727
The large 167-page education bill, Senate Bill (SB) 727, has been making quick progress through the state legislature and is...
Charter School Students Will Finally Stop Getting Shortchanged
Governor Parson has now signed House Bill (HB) 1552 into law. In signing HB 1552, the governor has acknowledged that...
Charter School Students Are Public School Students
Imagine two teenage siblings with jobs—a rarity these days. Their parents require them both to pay for their own transportation...
A Charter School for Normandy?
The Normandy School District might be getting its first charter school. That is, unless a coterie of local functionaries scupper...
The Star PPP-Shames Kansas City Private and Charter Schools
The government filings of Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans have provided ideologically motivated journalists and advocates a treasure trove for...
Charter Schools and Civil Society in Kansas City
After a nine-month tour of America in 1831, French political scientist Alexis de Tocqueville published Democracy in America, a volume...
Getting the Facts Straight: What Is a Charter School
The filing of charter school expansion bills in the state legislature has been accompanied by spirited debate on the subject....
If Business Owners Want a More Skilled Workforce, They Shouldn’t Forget about Charter Schools
Last week in Columbia, business and education stakeholders expressed their concerns over the preparedness of Missouri’s future workers. As part...
Charter Schools 101: What Is a Charter School?
It’s hard to believe that after nearly 30 years charter schools are still a mystery in some parts of the...
No, Charter Schools Won’t Take Over Your School District
Recently, the Superintendent of the Hickman Mills School District and officials from the Columbia Public School District spoke out against...
The NAACP’s Misguided Opposition to Charter Schools
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) passed a resolution on October 15 calling for a nationwide...
How Healthy Is Missouri’s Charter School Movement?
The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools just released “Health of the Public Charter School Movement,” it’s annual state-by-state analysis...
Private School Pioneers in Kansas City and St. Louis?
The past 40 years have seen a well-documented decline in Catholic school enrollment across the country. But what many people...
What Should a Charter School Application Look Like?
In 2012, the Missouri Board of Education closed six Imagine charter schools. The Imagine network is one of the largest...
Can Normandy Be Saved?
They say those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. To better understand the seemingly intractable problems in the...
Are Charter Schools the School Transfer Fix?
When Stella Erondu moved to America from Nigeria in 1977, she was surprised to find the streets were not in...
Read This Post-Dispatch Article On Charter Schools
Yesterday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran an interesting article about area charter schools. Yours truly was quoted on the closing...
Language-Specific Charter School to Open in New Jersey
A Hebrew-language charter school is set to open this fall in New Jersey. Unlike the California “Hebrew-language” charter I recently...
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