Joanne Jacobs
EdChoice: Vouchers save tax dollars
The Georgia Special Needs scholarship is open to students with disabilities who’ve attended public school for one year. School vouchers...
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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
Mar 13, 20181 min read
Florida creates voucher for bullying victims
Bullied students will be offered a voucher to cover transportation to a new public school or a $6,700 voucher toward tuition at a private...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 16, 20181 min read
Requiring the impossible leads to fraud
Washington, D.C. public schools were held up as a model of “expert driven” education reform, writes Max C. Eden and Lindsey Burke on...
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
Sep 25, 20171 min read
Millennials support school choice
Millennials strongly support school choice — including taxpayer-supported tuition vouchers and charter schools — according to surveys by...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 30, 20171 min read
PDK: 1/3 of parents prefer public schools
Fifty-two percent of Americans oppose “allowing students and parents to choose a private school to attend at public expense” in the 2017...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 15, 20171 min read
Charters lose support, but fewer oppose choice
Public support for charter schools has fallen among Democrats and Republicans, but opposition to school vouchers and tax-credit-funded...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 27, 20171 min read
Voucher students catch up in Indiana, Louisiana
Vouchers have failed, editorialized the New York Times in March, citing “dismal” results in Louisiana and Indiana on the first year of...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 19, 20172 min read
Why I changed my mind about vouchers
Robin Lake, director of University of Washington’s Center on Reinventing Education, used to oppose vouchers, she writes on U.S. News. A...
Joanne Jacobs
May 30, 20172 min read
Vouchers help religious schools
Church-affiliated schools — and the parents who value a religious education — are big winners in Indiana’s voucher program, writes Cory...
Joanne Jacobs
May 4, 20172 min read
If charters work, do vouchers fail?
Washington, D.C. students who win the voucher lottery earn lower math scores than lottery losers, especially in elementary school,...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 20, 20172 min read
Indiana: Private schools test for vouchers
Indiana’s private schools now “live or die by test scores,” reports Dylan Peers McCoy for Chalkbeat. If schools don’t score well enough...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 24, 20172 min read
Special ed vouchers help some, but not all
Many states offer vouchers for students with disabilities, writes Christina Samuels on Ed Week. “Many parents who accept those options...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 6, 20172 min read
Choice wars
New America’s Kevin Carey lamented “dismal voucher results” in the New York Times, which followed with an editorial calling choice an...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 5, 20171 min read
Trump backs choice, but what’s the plan?
President Trump wants to spend $20 billion on school choice for “disadvantaged youth.” Families “should be free to choose the public,...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 16, 20172 min read
Choice saves millions in Milwaukee
Milwaukee’s school voucher program will save taxpayers half a billion dollars in the long term, writes Jason Crye, executive director of...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 9, 20171 min read
Not the national school superintendent
Betsy DeVos doesn’t have the experience to be a teacher, principal or superintendent, writes Mike Petrilli. But she is qualified to be...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 13, 20171 min read
King: Opportunity saves lives
Orphaned at the age of 12, John King “was fortunate that I had teachers and mentors who kept my life on the right path,” the outgoing...
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