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With the growing number of charter schools and early school choice programs such as vouchers and opportunity scholarships across the nation, education experts Jeanne Allen and Chester Finn discuss alternative methods and how reform will impact the public school system itself. Charlie Rose explores success and failure in implementations of education reform, and looks at the policy behind the practice and its importance.

Jeanne Allen and Charles Hudson of the Louisiana State Senate give commentary to a proposed LA law that would establish rules for the way public school students address their teachers and classmates in the classroom.

Center for Education Reform founder Jeanne Allen and American Association of School Administrators Executive Director Paul Houston discuss testing and accountability in schools- President Bush’s planned national education overhaul and the No Child Left Behind Act would increase testing and hold teachers more accountable for results in the classroom.

Learn about the beginnings of the revolutionary edreform movement through the lens of success in some of the early charter schools of the nation.

Fox 45 Baltimore provides coverage of Maryland’s new law recognizing Charter Schools, the difficulties and potential effectiveness and then-Superintendent Nancy Grasmick sheds light on the difficulties in starting charter schools, namely, finding proper and working facilities for classrooms.

CER Founder Jeanne Allen and Walter Farrell of the University of Wisconsin discuss education reforms that aim to improve the grade Americans give U.S. Schools and successes in school voucher programs across the nation, including Milwaukee’s growing program.

Larry Elder hosts a discussion on what is wrong with the American school system and what can be done to change it. Education reform pioneers including Jeanne Allen of CER and Clint Bolick, among others, discuss alternative methods of education and solutions to the failing system.

Gene Hicock hosts a U.S. Department of Education production titled Charters, Magnets and Choice: Expanding Options for America’s Parents. Jeanne Allen of CER and others, including Rod Paige, then-U.S. Secretary of Education, discuss options for parents during a satellite town meeting in Washington D.C.

Frank Wang of the American Enterprise Institute gives commentary on his experience with the boundaries of teacher hiring rules in the public school system, with commentary and response from Lisa Keegan and others.

As national education experts gather to work on then-President George W. Bush’s plan to re-authorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Chris Braunlich of the Center for Education Reform and Vicky Rafel of the National Parent Teacher Association discuss No Child Left Behind and the reforms taking place.