Choice Words and Actions: Presidential candidate McCain voices support for strong school principals and more school choice; in New Orleans, children line up for the chance of choice. This and more in CER Newswire.
Thursday, July 24: Reaching Beyond the Classroom … A Good School Saved … Teachers Union Withdraws From Lake County United … and more in today's Daily Headlines.
It's time to get smart about our schools. CER gives you a voice for more choices and rigor in K12 education, with practical advice, research and resources on How to Make Reform Happen in your community!
Get a nuts-and-bolts rundown on the shocking state of American education and it's impact on our economy and global standing, in The American Education Diet: Can U.S. Students Survive on Junk Food?
...plus charter facts, figures and local resources with CER's state-by-state roadmap to charter schools, laws and achievement.
A change in Wyoming law would make it easier for communities to start charter schools, a nationally recognized education activist said here on Monday. "Public education never was supposed to be about one system," said Jeanne Allen, president of the Center for Education Reform in Washington, D.C.
Charter Away By Elise Viebeck, National Review Online, July 9, 2008
CER Fellow Kevin Chavous: "To fold the charter board into a failed bureaucracy would be catastrophic to the movement and to the gains that we’ve made over the years. This goes beyond a home-rule issue." The Center for Education Reform ranks D.C.'s charter-school law among the two strongest in the country.
