National School Choice Week

The latest news, commentary and analysis that captures the state of school choice in America. NSCW is organized every January

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National School Choice Week

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'13th Grade' Program Helps Grads Stay Connected, Build Rewarding Careers

Time to Start Funding Families and Students Directly

Black Student Enrollment Is Up in FL Schools of Choice — & So Is Achievement

Creating Great School Options Is Our Mission to the Moon

Amid COVID's Chaos, a Growing Divide Between Americans & Their Public Schools?

Learning is Everywhere this National School Choice Week

#SchoolChoiceWeek 2021: As Annual Celebration Goes Virtual, Here’s How Students, Parents & Educators Are Celebrating Their Unique Classroom Communities This Week

With DeVos Out, Movement for Private School Choice Shifts to State Legislatures

Howard University is a Center of Black Excellence: Here’s Why I Almost Didn’t Get the Chance to Attend

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Charter School Promising ‘LGBTQ-Affirming Learning Environment’ Set to Open this Fall in Alabama

Romfo: In New York, Parents Want and Need School Choices for their Kids. So Why Are the City and State Putting Up Roadblocks?

Analysis: Survey of District Leaders Shows Online Learning Is Here to Stay. Some Ways of Making It Work for Students Beyond the Pandemic

Campanella: For This Year’s National School Choice Week, We’re Supporting Parents by Celebrating All Education Options

An ‘Alienated America’ Needs Community-Building Schools — Something Catholic Schools Have Been Doing for Generations

Three Distinct Charter Schools, One Shared Mission: To Provide High-Quality Choices for Students in Rural Idaho

For Maverick Polly Williams, the Mother of School Choice, The Point Was Always to Empower Parents and Improve Education for Black Children

‘You’re Debating Someone Else’s Child’: 30 Years Later, Milwaukee’s School Voucher Program Divides a City Whose Public Schools Struggle

Romfo: How Scholarships of Just $2,500 Can Open Doors to Private School and Educational Excellence for Low-Income Students

Mothers of Invention: Frustrated With the Educational Status Quo and Conventional Parent Organizing, Two Latinas Gave Birth to a National Parents Union

New Poll: Majority of Democratic Voters Prefer Candidates Who Would Preserve Federal Charter School Spending

Campanella: For National School Choice Week, Celebrating a Decade of Education Options for Students and Families

Lake: The Future of School Choice Isn’t About Schools at All — It’s About Empowering Students With a Wider Array of Flexible Learning Opportunities

Lewis: How New Orleans’s Unique School System Is Working for Our Students, Families & Neighborhoods and Reclaiming the Future for Our City

Congress Should Reauthorize D.C. Scholarship Program That DeVos Calls Example for Country

Roland Martin: Want to End the ‘Death Match’ Debate Over School Choice? Accept That There Is More Than One Way to Educate Our Children

Macedonia: How Florida Private Schools Are Using Assessments and Data to Make Great Academic Gains for Low-Income Students

With 20 New (and 16 Re-elected) Governors Laying Out Education Plans, Here Are the Four States Where School Choice Seems Like a Priority

The 74 Interview: Democrats for Education Reform’s Shavar Jeffries on the Blue Wave, the Politics of the Possible & Grand Bargains

Vouchers, Virtual Schools & Armed Volunteers: What Florida’s New Education Reform Trifecta Could Mean for School Choice in the Sunshine State

Fuller: Call It ‘Ed Reform’ or Don’t — the Fight to Make Schools Work for Our Poorest Families Must Go On. To Stop Is to Dishonor King’s Memory

Campanella: For National School Choice Week, Celebrating Teachers Who Have Founded Their Own Schools With Passion, Creativity, and Love

Republicans Offer Tempered Message for National School Choice Week Amid More Hostile Headwinds From New House Dem Majority

School Choice of the Future: Jeb Bush Says Education Savings Accounts Can Empower Parents To Customize Their Children’s Schooling

Chiefs Talk Choice: Tom Boasberg Is Clear on Purpose — Driving Greater Equity for Historically Underserved Students

Chiefs Talk Choice: Pedro Martinez Has Sights Set on 1 North Star for Students: Graduation. But There Are Many Pathways There

Jeffries: What School Choice Means for Democrats in the Age of Trump

WATCH: 5 Ways States Are Empowering Families With School Choice

Chris Stewart: Yes, It’s School Choice Week. Unfortunately, We Still Need It

Whitmire: Why Boston’s Most Racially Diverse School Could Also Be the Country’s Most Interesting School Integration Story

For National School Choice Week, Watch Families Tell Their Stories of Educational Opportunity and Success for Their Children

National School Choice Week: Celebrating Educational Options — and the Pursuit of Happiness — for Every Parent and Student

Republicans Kick Off National School Choice Week by Celebrating Rare Legislative Win in an Otherwise Tumultuous Year

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