What’s going on with the charter school sector now that traditional public schools are no longer troubled by the COVID plague and now that states—and even the federal government—are diverting more tax dollars to private school tuition vouchers? In a new publication, the Network for Public Education has launched the first in a three-part series … … Continue reading →| janresseger
In the last week of June, two important events happened almost simultaneously in Ohio: A district court in Columbus found the state’s EdChoice voucher program unconstitutional, and the state …| janresseger
ALERT 2: When the massive tax and reconciliation bill passed and was signed into law, the bill established a different version of federal vouchers. ALERT, Friday, June 27, 2025 : Ranking member of…| janresseger
On Wednesday, June 12th, the Ohio Senate passed its proposed budget for fiscal years 2026-2027. The senate-approved plan cuts taxes for the wealthiest citizens of our state; significantly under-fu…| janresseger
The NY Times’ Dana Goldstein summarizes President Trump’s two executive orders last week that would shape federal K-12 public education policy: “On Wednesday evening, Mr. Trump si…| janresseger
Andy Brenner, the Chair of the Ohio Senate Education Committee, is once again pushing the Ohio Legislature to pass an old fashioned, test-and-punish school accountability bill, Senate Bill 295, in …| janresseger
In The New and Radical School Voucher Push Is Quietly Unwinding Two Centuries of of U.S. Education Tradition, Tulane University Professor Doug Harris reflects profoundly on the meaning of todayR…| janresseger
Ohio’s fiscal troubles certainly have been exacerbated by the hugely expensive universal EdChoice Expansion voucher expansion now projected to divert over a billion dollars in the current fis…| janresseger