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July 25, 2007

July 25, 2007

A cycling campaign for education reform, addressing school choice concerns regarding racial balance, cyber schools help not hinder, voucher veto ...  

Digital 50: ED in '08 Team Cycling Across Iowa For Education Reform - More than 50 riders will be cycling across Iowa this week to raise awareness for the need for K-12 education reform.

USA Today: Our view on when schools fail: Let urban kids transfer out - Parents, students and educators in one suburban district are among the biggest supporters of a school transfer program that imports several thousand students from the poorest neighborhoods of St. Louis to the better-run, better-equipped schools in the suburbs. students who participate are more likely to graduate and more likely to go to college. The calm success of the program raises this question: Why can't the children in chronically failing urban schools elsewhere have similar transfer options?

Wall Street Journal: School Choice and Racial Balance - when parents can choose and schools use a lottery, minority parents are quite willing to look for options. In many urban areas, parents are now being given the choice of attending one of the country's nearly 4,000 charter schools. They're attractive in big cities, because they provide smaller, safer and friendlier educational environments. And, charter schools serve a higher percentage of minorities and disadvantaged students than traditional public schools.

Philadelphia Inquirer: Why see cyber school as threat? - Pennsylvania's cyber schools serve students from struggling and poor districts, and a disproportionate number of cyber students are low-income. Cyber schools use their resources more efficiently than traditional public schools,... despite fallacious claims to the contrary, cyber schools complete every accountability and performance measure that district schools do, and more.

Community Press, KY: Working to improve education in Ohio - After all the hard work for so many families whose lives would have been touched and improved with this initiative, the governor chose to veto the special education scholarship program. Now, more than 6,000 special needs children are not eligible to attend a school that would better suit them. Moreover, a number of these students will more than likely not be able to meet their educational potential.

The Sun News, SC: School-choice Leader to Appeal Free Speech Dispute - The district was sending out e-mails and memos against a school choice bill that included tax credits for private and home schools, and Page said, as a district taxpayer, he should be able to defend the bill on the same system. A federal judge ruled Friday that the school district was not obligated to provide a forum for opposing views because it was engaged in "government speech."

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