Joanne Jacobs
Mayors: Don’t limit new charters
Families want and need new charter schools, write a bipartisan group of mayors in an open letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona....
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 14, 20221 min read
Indy charters: 116-day boost in math
Indianapolis charter students are dramatically outperforming similar students in district-run schools, concludes a new study by Stanford...
Joanne Jacobs
May 26, 20222 min read
#1 school for rigor is charter on Mexican border
At IDEA McAllen College Prep, a charter school near the Mexican border, 77 percent of students come from low-income families and nearly...
Joanne Jacobs
May 18, 20222 min read
Biden picks teachers’ unions over students
The Biden administration has abandoned the Obama legacy on charter schools and chosen teachers’ unions over students, writes Jonathan...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 20, 20182 min read
Public supports raising teacher pay
Public support for raising teacher pay is climbing, reports the 2018 Education Next survey. Support for increasing teacher pay was...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 19, 20181 min read
NC parents choose alternatives
North Carolina public schools are losing students to charter schools, private schools and homeschooling, reports T. Keung Hui in the...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 17, 20182 min read
New Orleans improves — a lot
“After Katrina’s devastation, New Orleans embarked on the the most ambitious education overhaul in modern America,” writes David...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 19, 20182 min read
Integration is not parents’ priority
With charter schools, urban parochial schools and “a few unicorn-y school districts” showing that low-income black and Latino kids can do...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 18, 20182 min read
Equity and excellence
New York City’s elite high schools are filled with Asian-American students — many from low-income, immigrant families — who’ve aced the...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 3, 20181 min read
Charter support rebounds
Charter support, which dropped last year, is rebounding, especially among blacks and Republicans, according to University of Southern...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 26, 20182 min read
A better school for my child
Lane Wright and his wife bought a home in a racially and economically diverse neighborhood in Tallahassee, he writes on Education Post....
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 27, 20181 min read
Closing the gap in Chicago
Two Chicago charter schools are closing the achievement gap for low-income, black children, according to a new book, The Ambitious...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 27, 20182 min read
Low-scoring school is better — but not good
Locke High has improved in its 10 years as a Green Dot charter school. But it remains a very low-performing school, report Kyle Stokes...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 21, 20181 min read
Despite legal fights, charters thrive in Washington state
Operating under a “cloud of legal uncertainty” and often housed in portables, Washington state’s charter schools are attracting students,...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 20, 20181 min read
More brains for the bucks at urban charters
Charter schools provide higher achievement for less money in eight cities, concludes a University of Arkansas study. “Public charter...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 4, 20182 min read
Can charters be ‘schools of virtue’
Urban Catholic schools are closing, victims of an obsolete funding model, writes Stephanie Saroki de García of Seton Partners. The...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 26, 20181 min read
Disabled kids need well-off parents
Affluent parents in New York City hire lawyers to sue for private-school tuition for their special-needs children, writes Jim Epstein on...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 24, 20181 min read
School choice shouldn’t be controversial
School choice shouldn’t be controversial, writes Chris Stewart on Citizen Ed. School Choice Week reminds us that “hundreds of thousands...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 15, 20182 min read
Most improved cities: Chicago? Or New Orleans, D.C.
New Orleans and Washington, D.C. — not Chicago — are the fastest-improving urban districts, argue Emily Langhorne and David Osborne of...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 7, 20171 min read
District-charter collaboration gains popularity
A new model for urban education — a portfolio of traditional and charter schools — is gaining ground, reports Matt Barnum on Chalkbeat....
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