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Dismantling Ed Dept. Will Harm More Than 26 Million Kids — and America’s Future

Flores: Students in poverty & rural areas, kids with disabilities, English learners and homeless children will all suffer without federal protections.

Yolie Flores
Author: Yolie Flores
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Supreme Court Must Not Undermine Public Education in Religious Charter Case

Johnson: Breaking wall between public and religious schools could mean an end to charters and their commitment to educational access for every student

Ariel Johnson
Author: Ariel Johnson
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States Should Support Religious Education — But Not Through Charter Schools

Petrilli: Supreme Court has a way to mandate some state backing of religious schools and avoid disruption of a 30-year-old charter school sector.

Michael J. Petrilli
Author: Michael J. Petrilli
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Evidence — and Its Limits — in the School Choice Debate

Paul: The true value of school choice is not measured in data but in the freedom parents have to pick schools that reflect their values.

James Paul
Author: James Paul
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Rotherham: Why Won’t Betsy DeVos Answer Hard Questions?

Andrew J. Rotherham
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Williams: When Students Own Their Academic Results, They Transform Their Schools

Erin Williams
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Jeb Bush: What the Media Is Getting Wrong About Florida’s Push to Help Students With Disabilities

Jeb Bush
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Fiddler: The Cost of Textbooks Is a Huge Obstacle for Poor Students. Here’s a Solution

Ann Fiddler
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Bankert: If Rahm Emanuel’s Graduation Plan Is to Succeed, Colleges Must Lower Barriers for Poor, Minority Students

Lina Bankert
Student Voice

Student Voice: My Mother Is Undocumented. My Father Was Deported. I Am the Resistance

Esther Reyes
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Murray: Why One Ohio English Teacher Was Wrong to Say Preparing Students for Work Was Not His Job

Jeff Murray
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Dean Robert Pianta: Why Trump’s Policies Are a Threat to Role of Public Education in America

Robert Pianta
Union Report

Analysis: A Brief Summary of the Bizarre (and Sometimes Funny) Things You Didn’t Know Were in Teacher Contracts

Mike Antonucci
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Fisher: For HS Grads, 21st-Century Thinking, Skills (and Robots) Can’t Replace Importance of Human Networks

Julia Freeland Fisher
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Notes From the Field: If You Want Great Schools, First Work With Parents to Create ‘Actionable Demand’

Alex Cortez & Yordanos Eyoel
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Analysis: Former Delaware Gov. Jack Markell on Taking One Easy Step Toward Better Tests

Jack Markell
2017 Charter School & School Choice Weeks

Brizard and Pearson: Why Charter Boards Are the Key to School Success

Scott Pearson & Jean-Claude Brizard
Personalized Learning

DeArmond & Gross: It’s Time to Help Teachers Generate and Use Their Own Evidence on Digital Tools

Michael DeArmond & Betheny Gross
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A Pastor’s Perspective: How School Choice Is Lifting Up Florida’s Most Disadvantaged Students

R.B. Holmes
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#ShowTheEvidence: Building a Movement Around Research, Impact in Ed Tech

Aubrey Francisco, Bart Epstein, Gunnar Counselman, Katrina Stevens, Luyen Chou, Mahnaz Charania, Mark Grovic, Rahim Rajan, Robert Pianta & Rebecca Griffiths
2017 Charter School & School Choice Weeks

Rees: National Charter Schools Week, and Bridging the Partisan Divide to Celebrate Great Public Schools

Nina Rees
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Parent’s Perspective: Why My Fifth-Grade Daughter Opted Into This Year’s State Tests

Damian Gaillard
Union Report

Analysis: In Anonymous Poll, Employees of Florida’s Teachers Union Decry Working Conditions

Mike Antonucci
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Tucker Haynes: Why Should Tax Dollars Go to Schools Designed to Segregate?

Cynthia Tucker Haynes
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