Schools Accused of Pushing Mainstreaming to Cut Costs
Wall Street Journal, December 14, 2007
Now, some experts and parents complain that mainstreaming has increasingly taken on a new role in American education: a pretext for cost-cutting, hurting the children it was supposed to help.

Bush Signs Head Start Renewal, With Reservations
Education Week, December 13, 2007
President Bush has signed into law a long-awaited bill reauthorizing Head Start for five years, but he criticized the measure for…

Class Size Matters
Daily Planet, Minnesota, December 13, 2007
He concluded that smaller class sizes at the earliest grades had substantial benefits especially for minority students.

Vouchers Are The Obvious Choice
Star-Ledger, New Jersey, December 14, 2007
We need more school choice. We need to break the monopoly of the public school system. We need to build on this success by at least experimenting with vouchers in the K-12 system. 

Listen To Schools, Not Union Whines
Denver Post, Colorado, December 14, 2007
It’s a given that Colorado teachers unions continually fight against parental school choice. We know they whine about accountability. We know they’re not crazy about charter schools, either.

Police, Teachers, Government Workers Form Group To Fight Tax Cut Plan
Sun-Sentinel, Florida, December 14, 2007
Teachers, firefighters and police - the frontline workers who could feel the biggest pinch from a property tax cut plan on the Jan. 29 ballot - joined together Thursday to launch a campaign to defeat it.

It’s Virtual War
New York Sun, December 14, 2007
The Wisconsin Virtual Academy has grown in its four years to about 850 students, all there by choice.

Charter School Debate Heats Up
Alameda Sun, California, December 14, 2007
The school’s innovative program, based in part on self-directed education, has won wide praise from charter school supporters who are quick to say you can’t argue with results.

Parents Wait For Fallout From Online School Ruling
Green Bay Press-Gazette, Wisconsin, December 14, 2007
Some area parents are worried about their children’s future education after a state appellate court ruled last week that an online state charter school was illegal.

House Bill Will Hurt Cyber Charter Schools
Allentown Morning Call, Pennsylvania, December 14, 2007
Proponents of an anti-cyber school bill (House Bill 446) claim the legislation will strengthen public cyber schools. You don’t strengthen schools by cutting funding and imposing new restrictions.