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Arizona gave families public money for private schools. Then private schools raised tuition

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NOVEMBER 26, 2023

This story also appeared in Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting State leaders promised families roughly $7,000 a year to spend on private schools and other nonpublic education options, dangling the opportunity for parents to pull their kids out of what some conservatives called “ failing government schools.”

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For Families, School Choice Doesn't Mean Easy Decisions

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MARCH 20, 2025

One school choice researcher identified Milwaukee as having the most evolved legislation for making private school options accountable to families. In Wisconsin, school choice has existed for decades, with expansive options that include vouchers for private schools, public charter schools and traditional public schools.

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Thousands of kids are missing from school. Where did they go?

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FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Credit: AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek An analysis by The Associated Press, Stanford University’s Big Local News project and Stanford education professor Thomas Dee found an estimated 240,000 students in 21 states whose absences could not be accounted for. Each student represents money from the city, state and federal governments.

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With the nation in turmoil, Ed Secretary King’s quest to diversify schools is the right pursuit

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JULY 18, 2016

Negative quality of life outcomes and racial strife evidence our failure to learn how to live together, which compromise our national security making diversity a federal education policy issue. The federal government has a very limited set of carrots and sticks to encourage diversity.

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As college costs increase, more families are saving for it

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

Tuition, fees, and room and board went up by 34 percent at public colleges and universities between the 2005-2006 and 2015-2016 school years, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. At nonprofit private schools, the increase was 26 percent.

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As admissions season descends, warning signs appear for low-income applicants

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FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Private schools will tell their students to apply to 20” universities and colleges, said Cynthia Blair Tognotti, a private college counselor in Northern California. And that’s just the average number of applications per student. This year we’re looking at 30.”.

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National test scores reveal a decade of educational stagnation

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APRIL 9, 2018

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has frequently praised the state as a model of “school choice” with a taxpayer-funded voucher program for students to attend private school and many charter school options. The NAEP scores showed stellar gains within the traditional public school system.

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Desegregation is unraveling in this Texas town

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DECEMBER 5, 2018

This story about school segregation was produced by The Texas Tribune , a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that provides free news, data and events on Texas public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Beard is black and had two kids go through Longview schools. Board of Education decision.

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COLUMN: Conservatives are embracing new alternative school models. Will the public?

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OCTOBER 6, 2023

“We have seen an erosion [of support] and a legislature that has not only underfunded our public schools but chosen to essentially choke the life out of them,” Cooper said. “We We cannot give up on public education even though some government leaders have.”

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Where Americans Are — and Aren’t — Politically Divided on Education

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APRIL 26, 2024

“I think that there is a broad and sensible middle-of-the-country who is interested in common sense, popular education policy opinions, [and] that is sometimes not well-represented by two extremes,” Polikoff says. Overall, 73 percent of participants said funds should go to public schools.

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States were adding lessons about Native American history. Then came the anti-CRT movement

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APRIL 12, 2023

Kristi Noem, a Republican, signed an executive order in April 2022 restricting how race and equity can be taught in the classroom, Tilsen-Brave Heart decided to enroll her daughter at Oceti Sakowin Community Academy, a newly opened private school in Rapid City. Plans are to seek accreditation and add a grade each year.

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Losing homeschool data

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MARCH 28, 2025

The data collection was nearly finished and ready to be released to the public, but in February, Elon Musks Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) terminated the contract for this data collection, which is part of the National Household Education Survey, along with 88 other education contracts.

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Can sending public money to private schools improve equity?

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This story is the third of a three-part series that examines how other countries approach the idea of school choice. Read about school choice in New Zealand and Sweden. Parents are freed from financial constraints and can pick a school in which their child will thrive, leading to improved academic outcomes for all children.

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Traditional public schools educate 90 percent of America’s kids — let’s not make our educational system more unequal than it is already

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Betsy DeVos and Donald Trump say that the solution to persistent inequality in educational opportunity is to provide parents with more choices. They support vouchers that would allow public funds to be spent on private schools – even those with religious orientations – and charter schools, which are frequently run by private corporations.

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Education researchers sue Trump administration, testing executive power

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MAY 5, 2025

Some of the biggest names in education research who often oppose each other in scholarly and policy debates are now united in their desire to fight the cuts to data and scientific studies at the U.S. Department of Education. Department of Education Date filed: April 4 Where: U.S. The roster includes both Grover J.

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What’s the worst that could happen under New Ed Secretary Betsy DeVos? Some Scenarios

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NOVEMBER 25, 2016

But Betsy DeVos attended private schools and sent her children to them. Her qualification to be Secretary of Education? Scenario #1: DeVos moves quickly to implement President-Elect Trump’s plan to use $20 billion of federal funds for block grants to states to support vouchers for poor children to attend private schools.

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When schools reopen, we may not have enough teachers

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

She resigned from her position at a rural, private school in the Philippines after accepting an offer from Clark County. Her country’s stay-at-home order, now entering its fifth month, also prevented Posada-Ingles from finishing her doctoral program in special education. In Washington, D.C.,

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OPINION: Trump is back. We’re still waiting on his plan for schools

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NOVEMBER 6, 2024

See, whatever you thought about the Harris-Walz ticket’s particular proposals, the Democrats had things to say about education issues that genuinely shape children’s development: affordable early care and learning, access to nutritious school meals, funding for English learners , and more. public schools reeling.

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Fight for better education instead of blasting “unhappy liberals’’

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JANUARY 25, 2017

In Mississippi, a school choice rally drew huge support: On Monday, hundreds of students, parents and teachers held aloft “School Choice Now!” signs in honor of National School Choice Week , pushing for options including more charter and magnet schools, home schooling and vouchers for private schools.

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What education could look like under Trump and Vance

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AUGUST 12, 2024

Trump also supports efforts to privatize the K-12 school system, including through vouchers for private schools. His administration made it possible for parents to use their children’s 529 college savings plan to pay for up to $10,000 annually in private school tuition.

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Arizona gave families public money for private schools. Then private schools raised tuition

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Thousands of kids are missing from school. Where did they go?

With the nation in turmoil, Ed Secretary King’s quest to diversify schools is the right pursuit

As college costs increase, more families are saving for it

As admissions season descends, warning signs appear for low-income applicants

National test scores reveal a decade of educational stagnation

Desegregation is unraveling in this Texas town

COLUMN: Conservatives are embracing new alternative school models. Will the public?

Where Americans Are — and Aren’t — Politically Divided on Education

States were adding lessons about Native American history. Then came the anti-CRT movement

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Can sending public money to private schools improve equity?

Traditional public schools educate 90 percent of America’s kids — let’s not make our educational system more unequal than it is already

Education researchers sue Trump administration, testing executive power

What’s the worst that could happen under New Ed Secretary Betsy DeVos? Some Scenarios

When schools reopen, we may not have enough teachers

OPINION: Trump is back. We’re still waiting on his plan for schools

Fight for better education instead of blasting “unhappy liberals’’

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