Performance Accountability for All Kentucky Public Schools, or Just Charter...
Over the last year as Kentucky lawmakers, educators, and educational leaders have debated the merits of adopting charter school legislation, demands for accountability for charter schools from the...
View ArticleIn Response to “A [Kentucky] superintendent’s concerns about the charter...
The State Journal (Frankfort, KY) recently published an op-ed authored by Chrissy Jones, Superintendent of Franklin County Public Schools. In the piece Supt. Jones shared her concerns about Rep. John...
View Article10 Truths About Charter School Legislation Charter School Opponents in...
The Kentucky General Assembly is carefully considering passage of the state’s first charter school law, and some parts of the traditional public school establishment are in a state of panic. In that...
View ArticleAll Parents Like School Choice, For Their Own Children
I haven’t had the opportunity as of yet to meet a parent who would would prefer to not have school options available for their children. To be clear, I run into parents in Kentucky and across the...
View ArticleAccountability and Choice are Central to Improving Education Outcomes in...
Since the early 1990s Kentucky has continued to make strides in education reform. The state of education in the Commonwealth in 2017 is completely different from what it was 25 years ago. No longer is...
View ArticleCharter Schools Are Public Schools, Period.
The Kentucky Education Association (KEA) has launched a wide ranging media campaign voicing the organization’s support of public schools. What is not explicitly stated but is implied through their...
View ArticlePublic Charter Schools Consideration in Kentucky: 2017 Legislative Session
As the Kentucky General Assembly enters serious consideration of a charter school bill in the 2017 legislative session, I have taken some time to reflect a bit on the charter school movement across the...
View ArticleEnglish School Reform Plan Looks a Lot Like Charter School Expansion
A recent article in The Economist pointed to education system reforms in England which look a lot like charter school expansion and the establishment of charter management organizations (CMO). The plan...
View ArticlePublic School Options Currently Available in Louisville Are Not Sufficient
WFPL reported this week that Jefferson County Public Schools’ Superintendent Dr. Donna Hargens has said that a strategy for fighting charter school support is pushing the idea that Jefferson County...
View ArticleThe Prichard Committee’s Position on Charter School Authorizing is Shortsighted
I have long been a fan of The Prichard Committee‘s education reform advocacy work in Kentucky. The organization has a rich history of pushing boundaries and challenging both policymakers and the public...
View ArticleKentucky: Any Charter School Law Just Won’t Do
With Kentucky’s election of conservative Republican Governor Matt Bevin, who included school choice as a part of his campaign platform, and Democrats coming closer by the day to losing control of the...
View ArticleWhy High Tech High Couldn’t Operate in Kentucky
Over the last few years I’ve seen considerable interest from Kentucky educators in San Diego’s High Tech High School. For those of you who are unfamiliar with High Tech High, here is a brief...
View ArticleThe Washington State Supreme Court’s Charter School Ruling: What it Means and...
If you have paid much attention to school choice news from across the country, you’ve heard that the Washington State Supreme Court delivered a monumental ruling on September 4th regarding the state’s...
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Teaching Today: Change is Afoot
Teaching today is a much different profession than it was 30 years ago. Truthfully, it is significantly different from what it was nearly 15 years ago when I became a teacher. And the profession is...
View ArticleThe 30-Year Teacher is Gone and She’s Not Coming Back
If colleges of teacher education and school districts are waiting for the flood of young people who intend to spend the next thirty years of their lives as classroom teachers, they will be sorely...
View ArticleKentucky: The Bluegrass Institute’s Written Online Charter School Debate
This past Monday, Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy published the latest in its series of “Free to Learn” debates on public charter schools. If you have not yet checked it out I...
View ArticleAll Public Schools in New Orleans will be Charters in 2014-2015 School Year
Something significant happened with the closing of the 2013-2014 school year in New Orleans. The Orleans Parish School Board closed its remaining traditional public schools, for good. That means...
View ArticleBipartisan Support for Charter School Expansion
U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) is one of a bipartisan group of lawmakers in Congress pushing for the passage of federal legislation which would increase funding intended to encourage the growth of...
View ArticleCharter Non-Renewal in North Carolina: This is How the System is Supposed to...
The North Carolina State Board of Education voted unanimously last week to not renew the charters for two schools based on non-performance. The North Carolina Charter School Advisory Board recommended...
View ArticleMississippi’s New Charter School Law
In April 2013, Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant signed into law the Mississippi Charter Schools Act of 2013, which makes relatively significant changes to the state’s charter school law. Mississippi’s...
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