Politics & Policy

School-Voucher Rules Trip Up Student Success in Louisiana

By Lindsey M. Burke & Jonathan Butcher January 6, 2016

As policymakers consider vouchers and scholarships, Louisiana serves as a warning on the negative impact that regulations have on families’ freedom to choose.

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A-PLUS: A Boon to Students and Parents

By Lindsey M. Burke July 10, 2015

Wednesday night, members of the House of Representatives had the opportunity to consider a measure known as Academic Partnerships Lead Us to Success (A-PLUS), which would allow states to completely ...

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Nevada Enacts Universal School Choice

By Lindsey M. Burke June 8, 2015

On Tuesday night, Nevada governor Brian Sandoval signed into law the nation’s first universal school-choice program.

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The Preschool Mirage

By Rachel Sheffield & Lindsey M. Burke December 10, 2014

The Obama administration has just announced a new $1 billion initiative ($750 million in federal grants and the remainder from private funding) to enroll more children in government preschool programs. ...

Common Core Loses at the Ballot Box

By Lindsey M. Burke November 5, 2014

Sorry, Common Core. Last night just wasn’t your night. Voters resoundingly sided with candidates who rejected Common Core national standards and tests and promised to restore state and local control ...

ESAs Are Changing the Game

By Lindsey M. Burke October 6, 2014

‘A blind student in Arizona gets about $21,000 a year,” says Marc Ashton, whose son, Max, is legally blind. That $21,000 represents what Arizona spends to educate a student such ...

Our National Report Card: No Education Progress Since 2009

By Lindsey M. Burke May 13, 2014

Last week the U.S. Department of Education released the 2013 results of math and reading achievement for 12th graders on the National Assessment of Educational Progress. It’s hard to say ...

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Choosing to Learn

By Joseph Bast, Lindsey M. Burke, Andrew J. Coulson, Robert Enlow, Kara Kerwin & Herbert J. Walberg March 12, 2014

Americans face a choice between two paths that will guide education in this nation for generations: self-government and central planning. Which we choose will depend in large measure on how ...

Don’t Look to the Feds for Pre-School

By Israel Ortega & Lindsey M. Burke November 13, 2013

You’d think that the Obamacare rollout debacle would give one pause before asking the federal government to start running another mega-program. Yet Senator Tom Harkin (D., Iowa) and Representatives George ...

The Education Debit Card

By Lindsey M. Burke October 15, 2013

‘The public-school system has no ability to handle Shawn’s sensory needs,” says Jennifer Doucet, mother of the Arizona fourth-grader. “We needed a program that understood him, that [we] could gear ...