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DeVos and Trump Must Heed Lessons of Common Core and NCLB

January 17, 2017 By Shane Vander Hart

The Washington Examiner warns that Donald Trump & Betsy DeVos should learn the lessons of Common Core and No Child Left Behind, avoid top-down initiatives.

Filed Under: Federalized Education, School Choice

Jeb Bush’s RNC Speech

September 1, 2012 By Shane Vander Hart

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush spoke Thursday night at the 2012 Republican National Convention.  As you might guess he focused his remarks on education. Here’s his speech below.  I’m not going to provide commentary on his speech.  I’ll let you do that in the comments section.

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards, Federalized Education, School Choice Tagged With: 2012 Republican National Convention, Jeb Bush

Voucher Programs Need to Be Cut Off From the Common Core

August 23, 2012 By Shane Vander Hart

I’m a school choice advocate, and full disclosure – my wife and I (mostly my wife) homeschool our three children.  That said I’m concerned by how current voucher programs are structured with more and more strings attached.  A friend of ours, Melissa Smith wrote a letter-to-the-editor that was published in the Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel that […]

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards, School Choice Tagged With: Americans for Prosperity, Closing the Door on Innovation, Common Core State Standards, Dick Morris, Indiana Voucher Program, Melissa Smith, school choice, school vouchers

Open Thread Discussion: What Do You Think About Same Sex Public Schools?

August 14, 2012 By Shane Vander Hart

North Carolina just opened up two of them.  I have mixed feelings.  On one hand as a former youth pastor who had to lead all boy junior high small groups the thought makes me shudder and I feel sorry for the teachers at the male academy.  On the other hand as a Dad of three […]

Filed Under: School Choice Tagged With: open thread, same sex schools

Transferring Poor Performing Public Schools to Poorly Performing Charters

July 2, 2012 By Shane Vander Hart

I had a post from Diane Ravitch emailed to me this morning.  In a post entitled “Theft of Public Education in Memphis” she described what seems to be a colossal shift of taxpayer money from public schools to charter schools in Memphis, TN. The Memphis schools will be merged with the schools of Shelby County, […]

Filed Under: School Choice Tagged With: Bill Gates, charter schools, Diane Ravitch, Jeb Bush, Jim Horn, Memphis Public Schools, Stand for Children

School-Based Management

April 11, 2012 By Shane Vander Hart

Governing highlighted a practice that seems to fly in the face of the current trend toward centralization… Detroit for instance is moving toward giving schools more authority by implementing five person boards per school.  They also highlight Edmonton, Alberta which could be a model for school choice as well. Edmonton has a population of 1.1 […]

Filed Under: Education at State Level, School Choice Tagged With: Edmonton, free market, school choice, school-based management

Online Education: Choice is Good, Mandates Are Not

March 30, 2012 By Shane Vander Hart

I read an article written by Beth Hawkins that was part news and mostly conspiracy theory in the MinnPost.  First the news, she discussed a proposed bill in the Minnesota Legislature, House File 2127, that would require all students starting in four years to take one online class to graduate. This section of the bill […]

Filed Under: Education at State Level, School Choice Tagged With: American Legislative Exchange Council, Beth Hawkins, K-12, Minnesota Legislature, online education

The Missing Ingredient to Education Innovation: Choice

March 26, 2012 By Shane Vander Hart

While a recent Council on Foreign Relations Task force report indicated that we need national standards of which I vehemently disagree.  They also determined that choice in education was necessary to achieve educational innovation, this I totally agree with.  Joe Klein a member of the task force and former New York City schools chancellor wrote […]

Filed Under: School Choice Tagged With: Council on Foreign Relations, innovation in education, national security, school choice

Mick Zais’ Battle for Education Reform in South Carolina

February 10, 2012 By Shane Vander Hart

Ben Velderman of the Education Action Group wrote an excellent profile on South Carolina State Superintendent of Education Mick Zais in a guest post over at Caffeinated Carolina.  I encourage you to read it. Here’s a money quote for me: “The education industrial complex is bipartisan,” Zais said. “We have RINOs – Republicans in Name […]

Filed Under: Education at State Level, Race to the Top, School Choice Tagged With: education monopolies, Mike Zais, South Carolina Department of Education

Local Control Doesn’t Have to Be Sacrificed for School Choice

February 9, 2012 By Shane Vander Hart

The Hoover Institution’s Koret Task Force on K-12 Education released a white paper this week entitled “Choice and Federalism: Defining the Federal Role in Education.”  I looked forward to reading what this conservative think tank based at Stanford University had to say.  I was disappointed. While I applaud their ideas as they relate to school […]

Filed Under: Federalized Education, School Choice Tagged With: Barack Obama, federalism, Fiscal Federalism, George W. Bush, Hoover Institution, Koret Task Force on K-12 Education, local control in education, No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, school choice

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