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President Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act into law Thursday. The bill replaces No Child Left Behind and is the first major federal education reform in almost 14 years. Read more »

The Center for Education Reform applauded passage while reminding the public that the bill isn't perfect. Read more »

Wall Street Journal Opinion Journal December 3, 2015 CER Founder and President Emeritus Jeanne Allen on Wall Street Journal Opinion Journal discussing the Every Student Succeeds Act, or the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind, also known as the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Read more »

by Maureen Sullivan Forbes November 30, 2015 More children attend charter schools in Los Angeles – 151,310 – than in any other district in the country. Post-Katrina New Orleans remains the district with the highest percentage – 93% – of students in charter schools. And the number of charter school students in New York City […] Read more »

Hillary Clinton took an uninformed swipe at charter schools while on the stump. And she necessarily was smacked in a fusillade of criticism. Read more »

by Allison Bourg ABC2 News November 19. 2015 No volunteering at after-school activities, no chaperoning field trips and no returning parent emails outside of school hours. Those are just some of the things that more than a thousand teachers in Anne Arundel County are refusing to do as part of their efforts to push for […] Read more »

Efforts to organize teachers in the country’s largest system could have nationwide repercussions By Kris Maher Wall Street Journal Nov. 16, 2015 As teachers unions ramp up efforts to organize the fast-growing charter school movement, one of the biggest and most contentious fights is taking place at a chain of schools in Los Angeles. In […] Read more »

The Center for Education Reform talks to Wall Street Journal Opinion Journal about Hillary Clinton's comments on charter schools while on the campaign trail, and how backing from national teacher unions has likely swayed her opinion on these alternative public schools. Read more »

One of the most prevalent education reforms will soon turn 25. Started in 1991 to disrupt what was considered the traditional school districts’ exclusive franchise over education, charter schools broke philosophical ground by uniting people on both sides of the political aisle. The goal of charter schools was to make public education more responsive to the individual needs of its students, more nimble in facing ever-evolving issues, and more innovative in discovering solutions to complex problems. Read more »

“That is absolutely false,” Jeanne Allen, the founder of the Center for Education Reform, said of Clinton’s claims about charters. “She sounds like an aloof, elite candidate from a bygone era, before ed reform was a reality.” Read more »