Tag: Charter Schools

Teachers' unions are attacking charter schools for supposedly "cherry-picking" which students to admit. (iStock Photo)

Damaging admissions

Thomas Sowell · February 17, 2015 7:37 pm

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Charter leader calls Obama out for school choice hypocrisy

Jason Russell · February 9, 2015 6:40 pm

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Flexibility for schools is key in No Child Left Behind debate

Jason Russell · February 3, 2015 9:31 pm

Teachers' unions are attacking charter schools for supposedly "cherry-picking" which students to admit. (iStock Photo)

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School choice movement showing remarkable growth

Jason Russell · January 29, 2015 9:35 pm

The program allowed students to rank five options of secondary schools, with the Ministry of Education assigning schools in order to avoid over-enrollment and maintain socio-economic balance. (iStock)

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Israel’s school choice success holds lessons for U.S.

Jason Russell · January 12, 2015 8:23 pm

Record 2.7m kids in charter schools; nearly 1m on waiting lists

Paul Bedard · December 2, 2014 7:04 pm

Youngsters listen to speakers during a rally at Foley Square organized by Families for Excellent Schools (FES), Thursday Oct. 2, 201. in New York. Families for Excellent Schools, a grassroots movement of public school families, is calling "for bold, urgent change to ensure no child in New York City is forced to attend a failing school, according to a press release statement. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Backers of charter schools hold NYC rally

Karen Matthews · October 2, 2014 7:22 pm

Back to bad schools

Michael Q. McShane · September 8, 2014 9:00 am

It's back-to-school season across the country. But in an increasing number of districts, "back to school" doesn't mean back to learning. Under the reign of social justice indoctrinators, academics are secondary to political agitation. Activism trumps achievement. (iStock Photo)

Readin’, writin’ and social justice agitatin’

Michelle Malkin · August 8, 2014 2:13 pm

Deion Sanders: ‘It’s time’ for school choice, charter schools

Paul Bedard · July 16, 2014 2:33 pm

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Obama’s Education Secretary Arne Duncan adopts school choice rhetoric

Joel Gehrke · May 16, 2014 4:00 am

This Nov. 4, 2008 file photo shows then-President-elect Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama acknowledging the crowd after he delivered his victory speech at his election night party at Grant Park in Chicago. The 2008 elections painted a dire picture for the future of the Republican Party, but demographic changes offer hope for the GOP. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Demographics may be destiny — but not one political direction

Michael Barone · May 11, 2014 4:00 am