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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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Mysa’s tuition costs parents who don’t receive aid around $20,000 a year, comparable to what it costs the government to educate a student in a public school. Mysa’s curriculum relies on Common Core, the same national standards as public schools, Fiske says. In contrast, many alternatives to public school are blossoming.

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

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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. Despite this finding, the nation’s highest court hasn’t thus far held that voucher programs that include religious schools are required.

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

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What would a decision in Espinoza’s favor really mean for school choice and public education? Below, Jonathan Butcher of The Heritage Foundation explores the issue. In 2002, the nation’s highest court also considered a challenge to a private-school scholarship program. As the U.S. Is change forthcoming?

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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

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I learned truths about European imperialism and the humanness before slavery — how colonists from all over Europe stuck their flagpoles into African soils, controlling nations and influencing heritage for centuries. 4) in the 1960s, when public schools were required to racially integrate. Jones-Rogers, Ph.D.

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

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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. he Brown v.

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

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In the capital city of Uttar Pradesh, one school is changing lives in an area where more than 599 million people live below the poverty line and nearly 10 percent of girls are out of school. Just a few miles away from where Ballani teaches, Michael Daube is raising money for the new girls’ school and economic center in Jaisalmer.