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 Postcards from the Past  A new, occasional blog post in commemoration of CER’s 20 years in business and the historical events that have taken place during our history and the history of the education reform movement. In its annual “Quality Counts” release, the researchers at Education Week took a different approach to state evaluations in […] Read more »

Jeanne Allen & Kara Kerwin, Pleasanton Express January 8th, 2014 Thanks to assessments of educational progress, we know where our children stand compared to other communities, states, and even nations. Now that the holidays are behind us, it’s time to take stock of how we are doing, and set resolutions for the New Year. According […] Read more »

Jeanne Allen National Journal January 7, 2014 Choice is post-partisan! House Majority Leader Cantor’s efforts to highlight positive data on school choice and be a federal voice for school choice is commendable. While school choice proponents nationwide are in the majority, there is no nationwide membership organization for school choice that has the clout of, […] Read more »

Postcards from the Past  A new, occasional blog post in commemoration of CER’s 20 years in business and the historical events that have taken place during our history and the history of the education reform movement. This time last year brought reflections on the major developments in education policy at the state level during 2012, […] Read more »

As we say farewell to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, we hope the education reforms he enacted during his tenure are as durable as the Styrofoam cups he sought to ban. Over the past decade, New York City has become one of the nation’s laboratories for charter school expansion in the United States. With […] Read more »

Tyler Losey My internship at the Center for Education Reform is coming to an end and I think there are two central things that it has given me.  These go beyond the important professional experiences, seeing what working in a non-profit office was like, meeting leaders in education from government and the advocacy world, and […] Read more »

Gregory A. Miller, Arizona Daily Star RE: “Calvin Baker – The whole truth on charter school funding” Superintendent Baker knows that anyone can make his or her case or agenda using statistics, or in this case, very complicated financial systems that support our children’s education. If he truly believes what he advocated at the end […] Read more »

Originally going into my fall internship at the Center for Education Reform, I knew little about the organization, besides that its focus was education. While I am very passionate about the education field, most of my knowledge comes first hand, from tutoring or assistant teaching. I thought it would be interesting to see what it […] Read more »

All I Want for Christmas is the OSP A song made in 2009 about Washington, D.C’s Opportunity Scholarship program still applies today as anti-reformers try to block or find fault with school choice programs across the state, most recently in North Carolina and Louisiana. All I want for Christmas is the OSP, the OSP for […] Read more »

Egged on by hyperbolic media headlines, teacher union chiefs and their anti-reform surrogates declared the Washington state charter school law unconstitutional, treating it as the kiss of death to innovative educational solutions in the Evergreen State. However, the ruling actually upholds the law’s constitutionality, albeit not to its fullest, which no doubt sets up an […] Read more »