June 4, 2013 New NCLB Reauthorization Bill Filed Senator Tom Harkin (D – Iowa) introduced a new bill today to reauthorize No Child Left Behind. The bill, titled Strengthening America’s Schools Act of…
May 29, 2013 The Future of Virtual Charter Schools Virtual charter schools are controversial, no matter how you look at it. They’re controversial here in Arkansas and in every other state as well….
May 20, 2013 The Higher Education Bubble When I worked in Governor Beebe’s office, though I was assigned to K-12 education, higher education, and pre-k, I spent the majority of my…
May 13, 2013 What’s Happening with School Choice? During the session, the Arkansas General Assembly passed Act 1227, the Public School Choice Act of 2013, which allows for open school choice with two…
April 26, 2013 Kentucky Court Holds Miranda Warnings Required At School In an opinion handed down yesterday, N.C. v. Commonwealth of Kentucky, the Kentucky Supreme Court held that a student’s confession to an assistant principal…
April 12, 2013 The Tim Tebow Bill: What’s Wrong With It? To some, nothing, which is why it’s probably going to pass, if it hasn’t already, through the Senate Education Committee this morning with flying…
April 3, 2013 Legislative Update I haven’t posted a legislative update in a while, so here are a few important happenings from this week: Yesterday, HB1897, the Parental Choice…
March 27, 2013 School Vouchers Constitutional in Indiana Yesterday, the Indiana Supreme Court issued an opinion upholding the state’s private school voucher program, which some have called the broadest in the nation….
March 22, 2013 60 Years after Brown v. Board, Segregation Lingers in Mississippi This probably doesn’t come as much of a surprise. Just look around many small towns and big cities alike throughout the deep south, and…
March 18, 2013 Bill Halter’s Arkansas Promise On Friday, Bill Halter’s campaign staff released what he is calling the Arkansas Promise, a plan to pay for the college tuition for every Arkansas student….