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OPINION: ‘Education tax credit programs extend choice to families who can’t afford private schools or to move to a tony community’

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They, in turn, award scholarships that students can use to attend the public, private or religious schools of their choice. “Affluent families already exercise school choice by enrolling in private schools, or simply choosing to live in places with good schools.” While the U.S.

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What We Can Learn From Red States' Approaches to Child Care Challenges

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Child care vouchers Much like North Carolina, Ohio has been offering families publicly-funded vouchers to pay for private school for decades. Lawmakers in Ohio in recent years have lifted income caps on those vouchers, along with their requirement that to be eligible, families must live in an area with schools designated as failing.

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OPINION: Post-affirmative action, let’s look past our obsession with the Ivy Leagues and other elite schools

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We should instead be asking this: Why are we so laser-focused on the graduates of a tiny number of schools, presuming they are the rightful inhabitants of leadership posts in business and government? But those outcomes are not fixed. and that “society would be better if we evolved past the ’traditional’ leader (e.g.,

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The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

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Black youth experiences at a progressive low-fee private school in a postapartheid city illuminate the politics and limits of aspiration. Founded in 2004, Launch is a network of eight low-fee private schools serving grades eight through twelve across four of South Africa’s nine provinces.

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In Coastal Alaska, 2 Visions for the Future of Higher Education

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For James Singewald, a typical week goes something like this: Learn about the history of boarding schools in an Indigenous Studies class. Attend student government meetings. It’s inspired by Deep Springs College, a tiny, two-year, private school in California founded a century ago by banking and power-company magnate L.L.

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Research on early college high schools indicates they may pay for themselves in the long run

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Leave this field empty if you're human: The history of early college high schools dates back to the 1960s with the founding of Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, a private school. Mississippi Learning. Proof Points. Early Childhood.

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Analysis: hundreds of colleges and universities show financial warning signs

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They’d spent the past decade grappling with declining enrollments and weakening support from state governments. Demographics are working against institutions in parts of the country as the number of teens — and thus the number of high school graduates — drops. This story also appeared in NBC News. Colleges in Crisis.

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