School Choice Blooming this Spring

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National School Choice Week School choice is making headlines in multiple states this spring. Several have approved or are considering proposals to expand educational opportunity for families. Texas is going bold by introducing multiple school choice proposals. Heritage’s Lindsey Burke explains that these include: an elimination of the cap on charter schools (only 215 are… Read more »

Mika To Google On Chavez-Over-Easter Choice: Admit You ‘Screwed Up’

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That Mika Brzezinski is a dyed-in-the-wool liberal is well-known.  Less publicized: the Morning Joe host is also a person of faith with traditional views on a number of subjects. So it actually shouldn't come as a great surprise that Brzezinski sided with those criticizing Google for its choice of devoting its homepage doodle yesterday to… Read more »

School Choice: Victory in Colorado

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James Frank Stock Connection Worldwide/Newscom In a huge victory for school choice, the Colorado Court of Appeals last month overturned the injunction placed on the Douglas County Choice Scholarship Program (CSP). The CSP is Colorado’s only school-choice voucher program. Any student who lives within the Douglas County School District, and has resided there for at… Read more »