The New York Times has a story about the closing of the private primary school that Justice Sotomayor attended as a child. The Justice was quoted in the story, making an eloquent case for school choice. You know how important … Continue reading
Yesterday, Judge Lawrence O’Neill, Judge Wanger’s replacement in the Delta smelt cases, denied the joint motion of the feds and the California Department of Water Resources to extend by several years the existing deadline for these agencies to produce a … Continue reading
In October, when Fisher was being argued before the Supreme Court, Justice Scalia was concerned with how the University of Texas determined it had “enough” minorities in each classroom. He asked, “how do[es the University] determine when classrooms are diverse? … [Do] … Continue reading
Bill Gates, writing on CNN today, argues that schools could be improved by adopting the “Measures for Effective Teaching,” a project that would “develop reliable measures to identify great teaching.” No doubt teachers, like everyone else in the world, can … Continue reading
The School Choice Week website has a helpful database of public events during School Choice Week. There are thousands of opportunities for supporters of school choice to get involved, including events in every state except South Dakota. (Incidentally South Dakota … Continue reading
Compact for America is an organization seeking to generate support for a balanced budget amendment in an interesting way: establishing an agreement among the states to convene a limited constitutional convention for the purpose of adding a balanced budget amendment … Continue reading
Last week my colleague Joshua Thompson posted on New Hampshire’s recently enacted school choice law, passed by the legislature over the governor’s veto. Using the constitutionally validated means of providing tax credits for donations to school tuition organizations, Section 77-G:2 … Continue reading