U.S. Representative Rodney Frelinghuysen (NJ-11) and House Republican Leader John Boehner (OH) today introduced a resolution in support of the successful, yet endangered, private school scholarship program in the District of Columbia.

The Arizona Court of Appeals on March 12 upheld a state law that permits businesses to reduce their tax liability by contributing money to organizations that distribute private school scholarships to students.

ducation Secretary Arne Duncan said Wednesday that poor children getting vouchers to attend private schools in the District of Columbia should be allowed to stay there, putting the Obama administration at odds with Democrats trying to end the program.

The high-achieving sixth graders huddled near the gym bleachers to mull their options: African drumming at the Future Leaders Institute, debate team at Democracy Prep or piano at New Heights Academy.

Congressional Democrats have put conditions on future federal financing for a small school voucher program here, and they are urging the schools chancellor to prepare the public schools to re-enroll, in fall 2010, some 1,700 students currently attending private schools at taxpayer expense.

House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today condemned a provision tucked into Congressional Democrats‘ $410 billion „omnibus“ spending bill that would phase out the District of Columbia’s groundbreaking school choice program, which has provided educational opportunities for thousands of inner-city children since it was established with bipartisan support in 2004.

More than 171,000 children are benefiting from school voucher and scholarship tax credit programs this year, according to the national nonprofit Alliance for School Choice.

A Senate sponsor of legislation letting some New Orleans children attend private school at public expense says she’s pleased with response to the program, although the number taking part in its first year is relatively low.

Former Milwaukee Public School superintendent Howard Fuller led marches before and after King was killed and like Barack Obama, he was once a community organizer.

Imagine this situation: The economy is facing a crisis with no recent parallel. Many Americans have lost jobs and homes.

Milwaukee State Representative Chris Sinicki has proposed a long list of regulatory measures that would add huge administrative costs to private schools that participate in the MPCP.

In key ways, discussion of school reform in the District is missing the forest for the trees. Perhaps the biggest misconception is that reform begins and ends with the city agency overseeing the school district.

When President Richard Nixon went to China in 1972, conservatives were outraged. Popular columnist William F. Buckley summoned a gathering of high-ranking Republicans.

With the country surging to the political left on Election Day, an Indianapolis native hopes that Barack Obama will take the education system in what he considers to be the right direction.

The number of Milwaukee children attending private schools using publicly funded vouchers has crossed 20,000 for the first time, according to data released by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

This is truly a historic moment. I never thought in my life time that I would see a Black man elected President of the United States.

As you know, I support Barack Obama. I appreciate his support for charter schools. But, I can not stand silent as he sends his kids to private schools, but yet questions the value of vouchers because there is „no proof that they work“.

Boys‘ Latin is a BAEO-Gates Small High School

America’s educational system is falling behind. We must find innovative leaders with a vision who can prepare children for the future they deserve.

Hundreds of D.C. parents breathed a sigh of relief last week when a House subcommittee voted to fund the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program for another year.

Virginia Walden Ford: D.C. parents, students need Opportunity Scholarships

Presidential hopefuls John McCain and Barack Obama aren’t the only ones gearing up for an intense battle this fall. Some hotly contested Wisconsin races are on the horizon, as Democrats try to wrestle control from Republicans in the state Assembly, and Republicans try to flip the state Senate.

Hundreds of New Orleans school children will have a chance to go to private schools at taxpayer expense this fall under a bill given final passage in the state House on Wednesday with a 62-34 vote that marked a major victory for Gov. Bobby Jindal.

An ambitious new Southwest Philadelphia charter school uses an ancient language as a formula for learning.

Students in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) graduate at a higher rate than students in the Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS), according to an analysis of five years of data by a national expert.

The Milwaukee Chapter of the Black Alliance for Educational Options opposes Representative Christine Sinicki’s Assembly Bill 919, which threatens to destroy the 18- year-old Milwaukee Parental Choice Program. (MPCP).

We released a set of five baseline reports on the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program last month, the first new studies of the voucher program using individual student data since 1995.

Get ready. In two ways, those words fill the day at St. Anthony School. There’s the literal sense.

Number 68 on my list of reasons I drive my kids all the way to Wauwatosa for school is that the classroom parties in October marked All Saints‘ Day: Candy, games and traditional Catholicism instead of pumpkins. Call me weird, but I was pleased.

The release last month of initial research reports on the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) provided a wealth of information. I welcome these reports and the dozens that will follow in the next several years.

I have spent the past couple of months in situations with many children in our community listening to their words of pain. The children are hurting, and the adult leadership in this community is not listening.

A major research effort that aims to measure the effects of the Milwaukee voucher program this week released a baseline portrait of the program, its students, and a comparable group of students in the city’s public schools.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) will hold its Eighth Annual Symposium in New Orleans, La., from Wednesday, Feb. 27 to Saturday, March 1, at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel. For each of the past seven years, BAEO has hosted a national Symposium, which brings together the largest gathering of Black parental choice advocates and supporters in the United States.

Shreé Medlock of LA BAEO Speaks Out In Favor of Parental Choice

Voucher schools are helping students, and there’s nothing wrong with trumpeting that. At the very least, low-income children get the same choice as more affluent ones.

Students who participate in Milwaukee’s private-school-voucher program graduate from high school at significantly higher rates than those who attend regular secondary schools in the city, a new study contends.

Hip Hop High counters a neighborhood culture of extreme violence and poverty with respect, attention and the chance to make music.

This, at last, was the smoking gun, the think-tank plastique that could finish off school choice.

Mary Budiac, a teacher, tells how one of her third-graders did unusually poorly on a quiz – a little low-stakes math quiz. Budiac’s school, St. Anthony’s, the largest in Milwaukee’s private school choice program, offers many lessons. One is a contradiction of the notion that parents won’t choose a better education.

The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and the Brookings Institution publishes The Future of Children

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel misrepresented a new study about school choice from the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute („Choice may not improve schools, study says,“ Oct. 24). The paper’s flawed coverage has generated considerable attention in Wisconsin and nationally.

Ho-hum: Another study suggesting good results from school choice in Milwaukee, not that it will make much of a dent with the opposition.

Joel McNally combines comical reasoning with outright lies to argue in his Saturday column that the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program explains „why education for black children in Wisconsin is worse than education for blacks elsewhere.“

The number of students using public money to attend private schools in Milwaukee dropped by almost 400 between September and January, according to the state Department of Public Instruction.

The gaps haven’t closed and achievement hasn’t improved much, but the work goes on, with both some positive and negative signs.

In an effort to keep Catholic education in the central city strong, Milwaukee Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan said Monday that Messmer Catholic Schools will take control of two core inner city programs, St. Leo and St. Rose elementary schools.