EdChoice Chats

What does it mean to hold schools accountable? How do we measure school performance? Why do we care? We convened focus groups of K-12 stakeholders to wrestle with these tough questions and help us better understand the current accountability landscape—where we’ve been as well as where we’re headed. We’ve compiled what those focus group participants told us into this report, which the authors discu...

You may have heard that private schools don’t serve students with special needs. But in today’s podcast, Director of National Research Mike McShane talks with Lannie Davis-Frecker, president and CEO of the Julie Billiart Schools, about how the schools serve students with a variety of special needs, how they fund the schools and how they measure progress. For more information, visit www.edchoice.or...

To download the full report, visit www.edchoice.org/VoucherFiscalEffects. In our new study, EdChoice’s Director of Fiscal Policy and Analysis Marty Lueken examined the fiscal impact of voucher programs in Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, Utah, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia—from their inception through FY 2015—to determine whether they generated costs or s...

In this episode of EdChoice Chats, we bring you a breakdown of school choice-related themes in the popular NBC television show Parenthood. This is the second in our School Choice in Pop Culture series. To listen to more, view our uploads or subscribe to our pop culture playlist to always get notifications of new episodes. To learn more about our research and our work, visit www.edchoice.org.

In this Monthly Debrief podcast, EdChoice’s Director of State Relations Lauren Hodge, Director of Policy Jason Bedrick and Senior Director of State Relations Michael Chartier discuss the latest school choice happenings in the states in August and look forward to what’s still to come as we close out September 2018. Learn more on our website at www.edchoice.org.

In today’s EdChoice Chat, our own Director of Fiscal Policy and Analysis Marty Lueken talks with Cato Institute Policy Analyst Corey DeAngelis about what drew him to school choice, his educational career and his upcoming research. For more information, visit www.edchoice.org.

Our Director of State Research and Special Projects Drew Catt and Research Assistant Mike Shaw join up with our President and CEO Robert Enlow to talk about a new EdChoice research report. Catt and Shaw, the authors Indiana’s Schooling Deserts—our latest report—used Geographic Information System software to map Hoosier families’ drive times to traditional public, magnet, charter and voucher-partic...

In this Monthly Debrief podcast, EdChoice’s Director of State Relations Lauren Hodge, Director of Policy Jason Bedrick and Senior Director of State Relations Michael Chartier discuss the latest school choice happenings in the states in July and look forward to what’s still to come as we close out August 2018. Learn more on our website at www.edchoice.org.

In today’s EdChoice Chat, Director of National Research Mike McShane talks with Thomas Moran, Jr., the president and CEO of a growing Catholic school in inner-city New Orleans. They talk about how the school started and is growing, how they manage to keep tuition free and what they’re doing to close achievement gaps. To learn more, visit www.edchoice.org.

In today’s episode of EdChoice Chats, Vice President of Communications Jennifer Wagner chats with Vice President of Legal Affairs Leslie Hiner about several court cases, including the U.S. Supreme Court Janus v. ASFCME case and an ongoing case about Florida’s school choice programs. To learn more, visit www.edchoice.org.

Marty Lueken chats with Friedman Fellow Dr. Mike Podgursky about why he started studying the education labor market, his upcoming research and more. To learn more, visit www.edchoice.org.

Mike McShane chats with Jeffrey Baker, the school administrator of the Santa Fe Waldorf School. This prekindergarten through 12th grade school follows the nearly 100-year-old hands-on educational model put forth by Rudolf Steiner. Listen to the podcast or read the transcript to discover how this school developed, challenges it has overcome and more. To learn more, visit www.edchoice.org.

Our state team lets you in on legislative movement in the states last month and what’s coming up in July. Learn more at www.edchoice.org.

We are excited to kick off this new series—School Choice in Pop Culture—where different members of our team chat about how school choice is represented in popular TV shows and movies. In this episode, two fans of The West Wing, our Director of National Research Mike McShane and our CRM and Email Marketing Manager Abby Hayes, discuss four clips from the popular early-2000s television series. In the...

Highlands Micro School leader Anne Wintemute explains what a micro school’s philosophy is and how it works in the classroom. To learn more, visit www.edchoice.org.

Our latest brief, which compiles the results of a survey of New Hampshire Private Schools, had some results that surprised even EdChoice Director of Policy and former New Hampshire legislator Jason Bedrick. Listen to the team’s discussion of the results here. To learn more about educational choice, visit www.edchoice.org

In today’s episode of EdChoice Chats, our Director of Fiscal Policy Dr. Marty Lueken talks with Lisa Snell, education director at the Reason Foundation, about a report she coauthored that examines the fiscal outlook of the Los Angeles Unified School District. Short story: It’s not a sunny picture. Listen to hear Marty and Lisa discuss how LA Unified’s trouble is similar to that of other districts...

In this Monthly Debrief podcast, EdChoice’s Director of State Relations Lauren Hodge, Director of Policy Jason Bedrick and Senior Director of State Relations Michael Chartier break down the legislative movement of private educational choice bills in the states in May and look forward to what’s to come in June. Learn more on our website at www.edchoice.org

In today’s EdChoice Chat, Drew Catt talks with Dr. Greg Forster, an EdChoice Friedman Fellow, about why he joined the school choice movement, what challenges he sees for the future of the movement and more. To learn more about school choice, visit www.edchoice.org.

In our latest episode of our Cool Schools podcast, Mike McShane talks with Drew Schantz, the founder and executive director of the soon-to-be Venture School. This charter high school in Detroit will use project-based learning principles to teach high schoolers to think like entrepreneurs. Mike and Drew talk about the research and development process for the school, how they’re testing their ideas,...

In this episode of EdChoice Chats, our Director of State Research and Special Projects Drew Catt discusses our newest research with the author and EdChoice’s Director of National Research Mike McShane. The new report is called "Rethinking Regulation," and in it, McShane posits a four-step solution to optimizing how we regulate schools and education providers in K–12 education. The goal is to free...

In this episode of The Monthly Debrief, the EdChoice state programs team talks about legislation and policy updates that happened in the states in April and what we can expect through the end of May. If you want to stay updated on this series, be sure to subscribe to our podcast. For more school choice information, visit www.edchoice.org. For realtime tweets on legislative developments related to...

In today’s Cool Schools edition of EdChoice Chats, Mike McShane interviews Kari Beckman. Fifteen years ago, she began homeschooling her own kids but felt like something was missing. So, she founded Regina Caeli Academies, which support parents’ homeschooling efforts with two in-classroom days of classical education. To learn more about educational choice, visit www.edchoice.org.

In today’s Cool Schools episode of EdChoice Chats, our Director of National Research Mike McShane talks with Pastor Wade Moore, the founder of Urban Prep. Pastor Moore describes how he started the school and how it’s overcome many challenges in its first four years of operating. To learn more about educational choice, visit www.edchoice.org.

This episode of EdChoice Chats is our monthly state team debrief. In it, Senior Director of State Relations Michael Chartier talks with Policy Director Jason Bedrick about what’s going on in their states. Then they introduce a surprise new guest. To learn more about educational choice, visit www.edchoice.org.