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

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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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Do Alternatives to Public School Have to Be Political?

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When it started, Fiske claims Mysa was the first school to call itself a microschool. But these days, microschools — loosely defined as schools with relatively few students that function as private schools or learning centers for homeschool students — seem to be everywhere.

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OPINION: Should plaintiffs in a U.S. Supreme Court ruling about school choice be careful what they wish for?

The Hechinger Report

What would a decision in Espinoza’s favor really mean for school choice and public education? For the perspective of the Heritage Foundation’s Jonathan Butcher, click here. Related: I got to choose private schools, but will vouchers really help other kids make it?

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As college costs increase, more families are saving for it

The Hechinger Report

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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OPINION: U.S. Supreme Court tax-credit decision won’t change much in terms of public-school spending requirements

The Hechinger Report

Below, Jonathan Butcher of The Heritage Foundation explores the issue. Montana Department of Revenue , those who think that more private learning options should be available to families and those who disagree are squinting to see an outcome that — like it or not — immediately shakes up traditional K-12 schools in the United States.

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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

Johnson opened the doors of Mississippi’s first rural charter school in this temporary space a year ago. Pulling students from Coahoma County and its county seat of Clarksdale, the school serves an area of the Mississippi Delta known for its rich blues heritage, low incomes and abysmal educational outcomes.

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India tries coding camps, craft centers and all-girls schools to fight illiteracy

The Hechinger Report

“Education is free, lunch is free, books are free, sanitary napkins are free,’’ Ballani tells parents, urging them to visit this government-run school on the edge of the Thar Desert, where, on a warm day late last spring, 12 teachers were overseeing the education of 260 students from first grade through high school. With over 1.3