School Choice

It is estimated that it will cost $175,000 to send each of my kids to college by the time they are 18. We cannot afford this cost and I don't want my kids to go into that much debt. We have a plan that could cut that projected cost in half.

The budget that the Texas legislature is on the brink of passing will cut $15 billion from the previous budget, including $4 billion from public education spending. But a school reform proposal may help save the day for Texas students.

At the beginning of each school year, choosing the right clothing and school supplies becomes top agenda. These same parents often go with a default school choice. Is default school choice failing kids? Can choice in education increase school success?

A provision in the omnibus spending bill, now wending its way through Congress, would strip federal funding of a successful school voucher program in the District of Columbia. At stake is the fate of 1,700 poor students who benefit from the program.

School Choice is coming under fire from critics around the country. However, no critic has been more vocal than Governor Ted Strickland of Ohio, and no group more vocal in their opposition to School Choice than the Ohio Department of Education.

School choice programs related to the No Child Left Behind Act are not helping disadvantaged students have better schooling experiences, on the whole. They are a good idea in theory, but impractical in reality.

Teachers comprise the core of the public sector employees who are participating in the sick out and protest in Wisconsin. A useful question to ask would be how do these teachers actually perform their jobs? The answer: not so well.

How poorly organized or timed education reform is like having no reform at all.

Most of the Pre-K daycares are iffy with high turnover rate and open learning areas with the toddlers and babies.

The issue of socialization is definately one that is misunderstood by many.

A new education law means thousands of students will never darken the door of a public school; and taxpayers won't be stuck paying for an inferior product.