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Charter school debate heats up

Yesterday Rep. Carl Rollins (D-Midway), Chair of the Kentucky House Education Committee, announced that he will allow proposed charter school legislation to come up for debate, tentatively next Tuesday. In the past Rollins has prevented...

Charter school opponents spread misinformation

UPDATE (1/14/16): The Courier-Journal has published a version of this post in its online op-ed section. Opponents of charter schools, who want Kentucky to remain one of only seven states that refuse this education option to low-income f...

A visit to two charter schools

Earlier this week I had the pleasure of touring two charter schools in Nashville and visiting with their principals. As Kentucky looks forward to its first charter school law, it was helpful to see first hand two different charter school...

New poll suggests a strong majority of Kentuckians support charter schools

The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS), in partnership with the Kentucky Charter Schools Association, just released results of a public poll suggesting that a strong majority of Kentuckians favor charter schools. Kentu...

Charter advocates rally in KY capitol

Many of my students and readers of this blog know that I'm an advocate for expanding school choice. After 16 years working in the trenches as a teacher and administrator in both public and private school contexts, I've become convinced ...

National School Choice Week to be observed January 22-28

Advocates for school choice have announced January 22-28, 2012 as National School Choice Week. Visit their website for more information, resources, and events. I'll be blogging in advance of and during the week-long observance. As I'v...

Scholarship tax credits: Kentucky's best chance for school choice

Kentucky is one of the few American states with no mechanism for giving l0w-income families a wider array of school choices, but that could change in 2016. The state legislature is considering three important school choice proposals, an...

Will charter schools finally come to Kentucky?

The Kentucky legislature has decided to redeem its failure to follow through on its flawed 2017 charter school law by trying again. HB 9 was introduced this week, and if passed as written it will correct a number of important problems wi...

Honored to join the Bluegrass Institute Board of Scholars

I am tremendously honored to be joining the Board of Scholars for the Bluegrass Institute, Kentucky's first and only think tank dedicated to free-market solutions for the Commonwealth's most pressing public policy problems. The Bluegra...

Expand educational options for Kentucky families with scholarship tax credits

I've learned a lot in my two decades working in education. One thing I've learned is that no school, no matter how good, can adequately meet the needs of every single student. That's why every family deserves the chance to choose from ...