Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alabama Republican congressional candidate Caroleene Dobson, who has been vocal about her support of school choice on the campaign ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No modern U.S. president before Donald Trump has explicitly called for the end of diversity initiatives and targeted schools that ...
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Private schools across the South that were established for white children during desegregation are now benefiting from tens of millions in taxpayer ...
Anisa Khalifa: It's been more than 70 years since the landmark court case Brown versus Board of Education fundamentally changed the American classroom. Abolishing segregation in public schools sent ...
Matthew Ladner is a senior adviser for education policy implementation in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy. ProPublica recently published “Segregation Academies Across the South ...
In a recent column, educator Sierra Bush Rester claims that school choice, whether in the form of private vouchers or public charter schools, is “rooted in segregationist policy.” Her own arguments, ...
Sixty-four years ago this month, the Louisiana Legislature passed a bill giving parents public money to pay for private school. Gov. Jimmie Davis signed it on Dec. 4, 1960, less than a month after ...
New sociological research finds that school segregation continues to widen racial achievement gaps among Black, Hispanic, and White students in US public schools. Analyzing standardized test scores ...
Alabama Republican congressional candidate Caroleene Dobson, who has been vocal about her support of school choice on the campaign trail, graduated from a private, so-called “segregation academy,” in ...
The meaning of school choice has evolved over time — the first charter school didn’t begin operating until 1991 — but the result is often the same. Research shows that charter schools make segregation ...