Tag: school choice

A Washington Post analysis of homeschooling trends revealed that families in New York have flocked to home education at rates Read More

Changes to New York’s charter-school law championed by Governor Hochul yielded their first results yesterday as five charter schools, which together plan to serve more than 2,300 New York City students, got the green light to open.   Read More

Flawed science not needed to make judgements about school choice. A new study out of Stanford University indicates that charter schools are outperforming traditional public schools (Editorial Board, June 15). School choice supporters touting the s Read More

The looming closure of a Buffalo school that failed to meet student achievement standards is a timely reminder of the high level of accountability New York demands from its charter schools. Read More

Organizations across New York and the country last week observed to raise awareness of the educational pathways that exist outside of residentially-assigned public school systems. But what Read More

New York bureaucrats are ditching standards for what children in public schools should learn. Why are they increasing their imposition on yeshivas? Read More

Due to a quirk in state law, roughly 10,000 mostly low income and minority kids in New York City are being denied the charter school seats their parents covet for them. Read More