Nancy MacLean: “School Choice” Was Created to Protect Segregation
Duke historian Nancy MacLean, author of the superb Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, wrote recently in...
Category : Vouchers
Ohio: Republicans Intensify Theft of Public School Funding
PRESS CONFERENCE ON UNIVERSAL VOUCHER BILL: 11:00 A.M., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6 We have been warning the public school community and other Ohioans that the goal...
New Hampshire: Voucher Costs Are Likely to Be 60 Times the Amount Budgeted
Jeanne Dietsch, former state Senator in New Hampshire, reports here on the predicted cost of the state’s new voucher program. Voucher UpdateCosts at 60 times...
Denis Smith: If We Lose Public Schools, We Lose Our Democracy
Denis Smith worked for many years in the Ohio State Department of Education, finishing his career in the Office of Charter Schools. He writes in...
Peter Greene: In Case You Missed Michelle Rhee…You Can Join the Zoom
Peter Greene wonders if you have missed Michelle Rhee, once the Wonder Woman of the edreform biz, but recently absent from the national scene. After...
North Carolina Parent: I Used to Think My Legislators Supported Public Schools. They Don’t.
Renee Sekel is a parent and public school advocate in North Carolina. She sends her children to public schools. She remembers when she naively believed...
Parent: Why I No Longer Support Vouchers
Dountonia Batts is a parent advocate and community organizer in Indianapolis. she is a member of the board of the Network for Public Education. She...
Bill Phillis: A Major Difference Between Public Schools and “School Choice”
Bill Phillis of the Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School Funding is a champion of public schools in a state with many charters...
Jan Resseger: Ohio’s “Fair State Funding” Plan Is Grossly Unfair
Jan Resseger explains how the Ohio legislature, which is devoted to charters and vouchers, managed to cheat districts like hers while boasting about “fair student...
Ohio: Vouchers Grow Despite Poor Performance and Cost
In 2005, Ohio launched a new voucher program to “save poor kids from failing schools.” The voucher program served 3,000 students and cost $5 million....