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  Innovation spurred by charter schools has improved student outcomes, created more personalized and customized learning environments for students, and driven innovation in traditional schools that would have otherwise not occurred. Read more in this essay featuring  Jeanne Allen, Founder and CEO of CER and Nina Rees, the President and CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter […] Read more »

Dear Charter School Friends, What a crazy thing – the Friday of National Charter Schools Week, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says that as president he will put an end to charter schools. As my mother would have said, “the nerve!” Sanders’ comments – yelling about transparency (which of course exists) or regulation (which charters have […] Read more »

by Jeanne AllenFoundation for Florida’s FutureMay 13, 2019   Nearly 25 years ago, I had the opportunity to witness the beginnings of historic education reform in Florida. In 1995, Jeb Bush, who would be governor a few years later, was laying the groundwork for an educational renaissance in Florida and for the nation. On the […] Read more »

by Jeanne AllenForbesMay 8, 2019 America is the land of innovation, leading the world in technology, art and industry — yet we still have a 20th-century educational system. Our schools are stifled by regulatory overload, making it difficult to bring needed change to outdated ways of doing things. Fortunately for our nation’s children, enterprising individuals […] Read more »

by Jeanne AllenThe Post and CourierMay 6, 2019   Last week, teachers called out of school to protest at the South Carolina Statehouse — a fitting final act to a school year already defined by teacher strikes across the nation. Earlier in the year, teachers went on strike in Los Angeles, Denver, West Virginia and […] Read more »

The results of the National 2018 Technology and Engineering Literacy (TEL) assessment, focused on critical STEM, skills, are more hopeful than in prior years, but the results remain disappointing. The test of more than 15,000 8th grade students in almost 600 schools across the country shows that fewer than 50% are proficient. The test not […] Read more »

by Jeanne AllenForbesApril 25, 2019 Felicity Huffman and 13 other defendants recently agreed to plead guilty to charges relating to the “Operation Varsity Blues” case, the recently uncovered college cheating scandal. Dozens of “elites” — folks at the top of our entertainment, finance and education systems — were implicated in a large-scale bribery scheme to […] Read more »

(Newswire, April 23, 2019)  THE NEA PLAYBOOK.  It’s right out of the playbook and it’s official.  This behavior – and that from DC, to NC to CA – is part of NEA’s very own book of plays designed to “help” the union and its members attack the charter school movement.  This is nothing new of course. For […] Read more »

by Jeanne Allen Forbes March 28, 2019 “Not everyone should go to college,” screamed a recent editorial, penned, ironically, by a Ph.D. He joins the chorus of successful, highly educated people who insist that others should not aspire to similar paths. Here’s why they are wrong. First, creating different pathways for students requires that some […] Read more »

Dear Friends, The news was blaring this weekend.  All the talk seemed to suggest that the nation was focused almost entirely on the release of the Mueller Report. It’s been that way for months. And now it’s out. We’re told the nation is riveted, waiting to learn what’s inside. And that does indeed seem to […] Read more »