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2017 Charter School & School Choice Weeks

Rolling coverage of the annual school choice celebrations — May’s National Charter Schools Week & January’s School Choice Week.

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

Scott Pearson & Jean-Claude Brizard

Meet the 3 New Education Advocates to Be Inducted Into the National Charter School Hall of Fame

Kate Stringer

National Charter Schools Week to Toast 19 State & Federal ‘Champions’ From Both Parties at Capitol Hill

Mareesa Nicosia

Denver, Texas, NYC: Meet the 3 Finalists for This Year’s $250,000 Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools

Mark Keierleber

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

Nina Rees

Schooling, Reimagined: How Dacia Toll Shaped the Greenfield School By Borrowing From the Best

Richard Whitmire

Dozens of Indianapolis Schools, One Application: Nonprofit Aims for Easier, More Equitable Enrollment

Mark Keierleber

Parents at Work: Has EdNavigator Fixed School Engagement by Making It a Job Benefit?

Mareesa Nicosia

Analysis: School Choice — but Not in My Town. How to Integrate When Affluent Districts Pull Up the Drawbridge?

Kevin Mahnken

Maryland Education Reform Talk Heating Up as State Leaders Debate Vouchers, Charter Schools, ESSA

Mark Keierleber

Nebraska Lawmakers Propose Dozens of New Education Bills as Charters, Vouchers Gain Momentum

Mareesa Nicosia

America’s School Choice Map: 5 Hot Spots for Vouchers, Savings Accounts and Tuition Tax Breaks

Naomi Nix

Title I Portability, Grants, Tax Code Changes — The New Opportunities for Federal School Choice

Carolyn Phenicie

Merriweather: My Grad School Stats Say I Beat the Odds. A Private School Scholarship Let Me Do It

Denisha Merriweather

Poll — 75% of Millennials Support School Choice; Majority of Americans Like Trump’s $20 Billion Plan

Kate Stringer

Why These Two Tulsa Educators Returned Home to Save the Latino Students Too Often Left Behind

Kate Stringer

As Political Winds Shift in Texas, Charter Advocates Plan 2017 Push for Funds to Build New Schools

Mareesa Nicosia