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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...