Government
South Carolina allows homeschoolers to participate in school choice programAfter months of uncertainty, South Carolina homeschoolers can finally rest easy knowing they can participate in the state’s school choice program. The budget recently approved by the… Read More
Public Education
Glenn Youngkin launches national non-profit to promote Trump’s scholarship tax credit(Daily Caller News Foundation) – A major advocate for conservative education policies in Virginia is stepping back into the public arena with the launch of a new political action… Read More
Public Education
Texas school choice participation tops 85k students with 121k on waiting listParticipation in Texas’ new school choice program has topped 85,000 students, but another 121,000 remain on the waiting list, a new report says, with many… Read More
Government
Republican governors urge Treasury to include homeschoolers in federal school choice programOn the same day a report revealed that nearly 800,000 homeschoolers could be excluded from the new federal school choice program, a group of governors… Read More
Christian Schools
This is the Great Commission: Parents describe impact of MOScholars programAfter eight years of hearing about the unique education offered at a local Christian school, Shannon and John Stewart finally received scholarship funding enabling them to enroll their children. “I really hope and… Read More
Government
More than 50 million kids eligible for scholarships – if states join new federal tax credit programMore than 90% of K-12 students nationwide will be eligible to receive scholarship funding under the new federal Education Freedom Tax Credit (EFTC), which takes… Read More
Government
10 states ‘medal’ in latest school choice rankingsEdChoice’s latest education freedom rankings awarded 10 states gold, silver or bronze status. The Friedman Index, named for EdChoice founders Milton and Rose Friedman, “is a comprehensive and easy-to-understand measure of the availability of… Read More
Courts
Advocates sue to block anti-school choice Arizona petition driveA pro-school choice group is challenging the validity of signatures collected to place an anti-school choice measure on Arizona’s fall ballot. The Goldwater Institute… Read More
Government
Democrat Gov. denied: Kids’ educational scholarships are saved(The Daily Signal) – Pennsylvania’s Republican-led Legislature has successfully pushed back against Democrat Gov. Josh Shapiro’s proposal to cut two scholarship programs from the 2026–27 budget. Shapiro’s… Read More
Government
Alabama’s rapid school choice expansion stands out nationally, report findsAlabama’s school choice program has grown rapidly, reaching 34,000 students in its second year – growth unmatched by any other state at the same stage, according to the Alabama Policy Institute. Read More
Public Education
WATCH: Florida’s newest senator calls for school choice expansion nationwideSen. Ashley Moody, R-Florida, is championing a new federal tax credit scholarship designed to help millions of students get the education their parents choose. The Education Freedom… Read More
Opinion
New Kentucky audit shows why families need education freedom(The Daily Signal) – Kentucky State Auditor Allison Ball’s recent report on Jefferson County Public Schools should alarm every taxpayer and parent in the state. Read More
Public Education
Birth rates plunge as public schools face long-term enrollment declineU.S. births have dropped dramatically over the last two decades, a trend affecting public school enrollment in most states. The decline is more pronounced in blue, Democrat-led states… Read More
Public Education
Arizona drops regulation of school choice in settlement(The Center Square) – Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has withdrawn a policy requiring families using the state’s school choice program to document every purchase made for “general educational supplemental… Read More
Public Education
Vociferous school choice opponent urges states to join new federal school choice program, calls opposition ‘mostly political’In what could represent a seismic shift in the nation’s education environment, one of school choice’s most vociferous opponents is urging states to opt in to the new federal… Read More
Opinion
Unions are fighting yesterday’s education debate(Daily Caller News Foundation) – Leaders of the nation’s largest teachers unions recently sent a letter urging Democratic governors to refrain from participating in the new federal… Read More
Public Education
North Carolina charter school enrollment doubles after cap removedNorth Carolina families are clamoring for more educational opportunities in both the public and private sectors. The North Carolina State Board of Education revealed in its … Read More
Opinion
Op-ed: Education tax credits work — that’s why Dems voted to destroy themThis school year about 108,000 Pennsylvania students from poor and working-class families received K-12 tuition assistance scholarships to find a non-public school that works — funded entirely by charitable… Read More
Public Education
Teachers’ unions oppose school choice tax credit, merit pay as education freedom advancesWith education freedom advancing and 31 states signing on so far to the new federal school choice program, the leaders of the nation’s two largest… Read More
Public Education
Democrats ‘act as if school choice is the bubonic plague,’ former Trump adviser says“Why are Democrats and their teachers’ union masters trying to shoot down parental choice in education even when we now have so many examples of these programs working?” asks Stephen… Read More