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School choice makes national waves

Not just an issue for conservatives anymore By Eric Boehm | PA Independent HARRISBURG — Americans like to choose. As consumers, we have an endless number of options when it comes to spending money — we choose everything from the clothes we buy to the colleges we attend. Our grocery stores carry dozens of varieties of breakfast cereal, our ice cream parlors ...
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School choice makes national waves

Posted on January 20, 2012

Not just an issue for conservatives anymore By Eric Boehm | PA Independent HARRISBURG — Americans like to choose. As consumers, we have an endless number of options when it comes to spending money — we choose everything from the clothes we buy to the colleges we attend. Our grocery stores carry dozens of varieties of [...]

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Choosing success: School choice grows amid controversy in Wisconsin

Posted on January 19, 2012

By M.D. Kittle | Wisconsin Reporter MADISON — The fire took everything. A community inside a school brought it all back. Jeffrey Robb, development director for Messmer Catholic Schools, home to Milwaukee’s famous school choice voucher program, said the story of Ayanna Murrell, a Messmer High junior, the fire that claimed her family’s home, and the way [...]

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Educational choice in PA has expanded in past 20 years

Posted on January 19, 2012

By Eric Boehm | PA Independent HARRISBURG — School choice is advancing in Pennsylvania, even as a public school voucher plan remains stuck in legislative limbo. As the New Year dawns over the state Capitol, lawmakers and lobbyists are geared up for another fight over the creation of a public school voucher program aimed at providing [...]

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VA school choice advocates push tax credits for corporate scholarships

Posted on January 19, 2012

By Hannah Hess | Virginia Statehouse News RICHMOND — Parents of children who are struggling in some of Virginia’s most troubled public schools could get more choices, if Republicans win tax breaks for companies that make donations for low-income students to attend private institutions. The plan provides corporations with a tax credit that covers 70 [...]

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School choice debate to resume in Kansas education committee

Posted on January 19, 2012

By Gene Meyer | Kansas Reporter TOPEKA — Parents get to choose the tax-supported colleges and universities in which to enroll their children, says one longtime advocate of homeschooling. So why are there so few choices for public schools? That’s the question asked by Jeff Barclay, pastor at Christ Community Church in Lawrence. Only 25 of Kansas’ 1,445 [...]

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