Do You Wish You Could Choose Your Child’s Teacher?
Posted:09/02/10
The course of a student’s life often depends largely on his teachers. Yet, as important as this their influence is, most Americans have no say in choosing their child’s teacher.
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Charter Schools: A Welcome Choice for Parents
Posted:09/02/10
A study published by the Department of Education (DOE) in June, “The Evaluation of Charter School Impacts,” highlights the many benefits of charter schools.
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D.C. Voucher Students: Higher Graduation Rates and Other Positive Outcomes
Posted:07/28/10
Congress put school vouchers to the test in 2004 when it authorized the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (DCOSP), a federally funded voucher program serving low-income students in the nation’s capital.
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Tucker Carlson On End Of DC Voucher Program
Posted:07/14/10
Congress voted to not reauthorize a successful voucher program for DC schools. Tucker Carlson discusses it on Fox News.
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April 13: A special screening of the documentary Let Me Rise
Posted:04/06/10
On April 13, 2010, at 6 p.m., The Heritage Foundation will screen Let Me Rise, a 30-minute film about the school choice debate in Washington, D.C. and around the nation. Save the date now to join us for this special event.
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Heritage launches ad campaign to save D.C. scholarships
Posted:03/26/10
The Heritage Foundation is launching a four-week Metro advertising campaign to save the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship program, which was axed by Congress even though voucher recipients are doing better academically than their peers in public school and a majority of District residents supports the program.
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Don't Sink Our Scholarships, D.C. Kids Ask in Ads on Metro
Posted:03/26/10
Fransoir, along with seven other children among the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program’s 1,700 current enrollees appear in provocative print advertisements sponsored by The Heritage Foundation.
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D.C. Kids ‘Rise’ to Save Scholarships
Posted:03/26/10
To help raise the profile of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, The Heritage Foundation is sponsoring a four-week ad campaign in Metro’s busy Union Station subway stop and on 225 buses traveling every Metro route in the District. See the ads here!
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WASHPOST: Step up for D.C. vouchers
Posted:03/25/10
PARENTS LOVE IT. Students benefit from it. But neither the White House nor most Democrats in Congress had the backbone to support a unique program that provides vouchers to low-income D.C. families in search of better educational opportunities.
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Choice for the Powerful, But Not for the People
Posted:03/25/10
On April 6, 2009, Secretary Arne Duncan’s Department of Education sent letters to the families of 216 low-income children in the District of Columbia informing them that the $7,500 scholarships they had been awarded by the Department are now being rescinded.
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