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Maryland ranks at the top of Education Week's 2013 Quality Counts, despite ranking 38th on CER's Parent Power Index. Read more »

Nancy Madsen, Richmond Times-Dispatch Former Gov. Bob McDonnell was not shy about about claiming success during his final State of the Commonwealth Address. Among the accomplishments he cited in his hour-long speech: “We expanded charter” schools. Charter schools are alternative primary or secondary academies that receive tax dollars but are not subject to all of the […] Read more »

Mary C. Tillotson, Watchdog.org One of the greatest challenges for school choice proponents is simply educating parents that they have a choice. “If we’re going to really have parents engaged in knowing what all their options are, someone’s got to go and tell them,” said Jonathan Butcher, education director at the Goldwater Institute. His group has published […] Read more »

Natasha Lindstrom, Bucks County Courier Times HARRISBURG — The state Senate is set to vote as early as this month on the latest proposal to overhaul Pennsylvania’s 16-year-old charter school law. Tension between the state’s charter system and traditional public schools has intensified as charter schools have proliferated and overall education funding has dropped, with an […] Read more »

Politico Morning edition featured a roundup of possibilities from education experts in the year 2014.  Below are some predictions for the coming year: WHAT WILL 2014 BRING FOR K-12?: We’re not in the prediction business, but a roundup of possibilities from education experts: (Watch for more in Friday’s edition of Morning Education.) COMMON CORE WILL STAY […] Read more »

Orlando Montoya, GPB News Two Georgia Army bases are part of a nationwide study that could expand military charter schools. The Defense Department is re-thinking education for military children. About 23,000 students attend schools run by the military at bases in the 50 states. The study will take into account test results, graduation rates and […] Read more »

Katie Ash, Education Week Jose A. Herrera, the father of two school-age children in New York City, said he used to be completely disengaged from politics—he didn’t even vote. But that all changed after he successfully teamed up with other parents to push to move his elder son’s charter school from a community center into […] Read more »

Diana Furchtgott-Roth, The Detroit News Raising minimum wage hurts youth Calls to increase the minimum wage are rising. Financial Times columnist Edward Luce wrote that raising the minimum wage “would inject a much-needed stimulus into the anemic recovery without involving a dollar of taxpayer money.” The New York Times has published columns by Princeton professor […] Read more »

By Mary C. Tillotson, Watchdog.org It shouldn’t come as a surprise that 86 percent of Americans support greater accountability in public schools. Specifically, they support the ability to fire poorly performing teachers, according to a survey by the Center for Education Reform. “That’s huge. There’s no other issue that 86 percent of the public can agree […] Read more »