EdChoice Chats

In today’s Cool Schools episode of EdChoice Chats, Mike McShane chats with Stephanie Saroki de Garcia, co-founder of Seton Education Partners. Her job is to fill in gaps for Catholic schools across several cities by helping them improve school culture and implement successful blended learning programs. Seton also runs several secular charter schools with optional faith-based programming. To learn...

In today’s episode of EdChoice Chats, Vice President of Communications Jennifer Wagner interviews Vice President of Legal Affairs Leslie Hiner about Montana’s Espinoza v. Department of Revenue case, which involves the state’s tax-credit scholarship program. Leslie talks about why this case is so important and what it could mean for school choice programs around the country. To learn more about sch...

In today’s episode of EdChoice Chats, we continue our Cool Schools series with an interview with Acton Academies Co-Founder Jeff Sandefer. He talks about how his family started Acton Academies and what their innovative model of education looks like in the classroom. To learn more about educational choice, visit www.edchoice.org.

In today’s EdChoice Chat, our Director of State Research and Policy Analysis Drew Catt talks with two researchers from the Center on Reinventing Public Education, Georgia Heyward and Christine Campbell. They talk about their new report, Stepping Up: How Are American Cities Delivering on the Promise of Public School Choice. To read the report, visit https://www.crpe.org/publications/stepping-up-ame...

This episode of EdChoice Chats is our monthly state update for February. Get the insider’s scoop on what’s happening with school choice legislation in states across the nation, and get a look into how legislatures work. Learn more at www.edchoice.org.

In today’s episode of EdChoice Chats, Director of National Research Mike McShane features another “Cool School,” Open Sky Education. He talks with Executive Chair and CEO Andrew Neumann about the network’s model, which runs both charter and private schools, as well as providing childcare and after school character education programs to thousands of kids across the country. To learn more, visit www...

In today’s episode, EdChoice’s President and CEO Robert Enlow moderates a conversation with two of our team’s long-time coalition builders, Vice President of Training and Outreach Keri Hunter and Senior Director of State Relations Michael Chartier. The three talk about their past experiences in coalition building and which states have strong school choice coalitions today. To learn more, visit our...

In this episode of EdChoice Chats, Shaunette Parker, executive director of My South Carolina Education, joins us on the show to talk about a new private school survey report with one of the report’s co-authors, EdChoice Director of State Research and Policy Analysis Drew Catt. They delve into common arguments for and against school choice locally, concerns parents and private school leaders have a...

In today’s EdChoice Chat, we continue our “Cool Schools” series with a conversation with Kathleen Porter-Magee. She heads the Partnership for Inner-City Education, which operates six Catholic schools in New York City. Katherine tells our Director of National Research Mike McShane about the Partnership’s community roots and how they’re helping century-old Catholic schools innovate. To learn more ab...

Do you want a behind-the-scenes look at the legislation updates we feature in our monthly state brief blog post? You’ll find that in today’s EdChoice Chat. In this episode, Michael Chartier talks with Jason Bedrick about the details of educational choice legislation in several states. To learn more about educational choice, visit www.edchoice.org.

In today’s episode of EdChoice Chats, Director of State Research and Policy Analysis Drew Catt chats with Research Assistant Mike Shaw about their experience at the International School Choice and Reform Conference. They talk about who was there, forthcoming research they got to preview and panels they watched or participated in. To learn more, visit www.edchoice.org.

In this episode of EdChoice Chats, our Director of National Research Mike McShane continues our “Cool Schools” series with an interview with CEO of The Oaks Academy Andrew Hart. They talk about the classical Christian school network’s mission to provide excellent education in a racially and socioeconomically integrated environment near downtown Indianapolis. To learn more, visit www.edchoice.org.

Today, EdChoice released its latest research, a report on how Florida families are using the state’s Gardiner Scholarship Program, an education savings account (ESA) program for primarily for students with special needs. Visit www.edchoice.org/PersonalizingEducation to download the full report.

In today’s EdChoice Chat, Director of State Research and Policy Analysis Drew Catt talks with Jonathan Mills, senior research associate in the University of Arkansas’s Department of Education. Jon talks about his current research projects, what he’s learned from collaborating with a diverse team and how research can be useful for parents and To learn more about educational choice, visit www.edchoi...

Our VP of Communications Jennifer Wagner was joined by our Research Assistant Mike Shaw, our Senior Director of State Relations Michael Chartier and our VP of Legal Affairs Leslie Hiner to give a glimpse behind the scenes of how our team determined our 2018 yearbook superlatives. What are they; what's our reasoning and what makes deciding so tough. Learn more at www.edchoice.org.

Today on EdChoice Chats, we’re listening in on a conversation between EdChoice’s President and CEO Robert Enlow and his friend Andrew Campanella, the president of National School Choice Week. They talk about how National School Choice Week got started, how it has grown and what it means for the school choice movement. To learn more about school choice, visit www.edchoice.org.

In this episode of EdChoice Chats, our Director of State Research and Policy Analysis Drew Catt interviews three up-and-coming school choice researchers: Frederick Andersson and Christian Buerger of IUPUI and Mike Ford of the University of Wisconsin. They talk about why they chose to research school choice, their current and future projects and tips for other school choice researchers. For more in...

In this episode of EdChoice Chats, our Director of State Research and Policy Analysis Drew Catt talks with Dr. Bartley Danielsen, the author of a three-part blog series on concentrated poverty, pollution, urban blight and gentrification and how school choice could fit into the overall solution. They discuss what inspired this research, what the data say and more. Click below to listen, and be sure...

In our new "Cool Schools" series, our Director of National Research Mike McShane is not just celebrating innovative schools across America, but also opening minds to what is possible in education. In this episode, he spoke with Amy McGrath, COO of Arizona State University’s ASU Prep Digital and associate vice president of ASU Educational Outreach, about her cool school—how it came to be, how it’s...

In this podcast episode, EdChoice Vice President of Communications Jennifer Wagner chats with President and CEO Robert Enlow about the year behind and the year ahead. They discuss the major school choice events of 2017, including Arizona’s education savings account (ESA) expansion and EdChoice’s own rebrand. Then they dive into what we expect and hope for in 2018, as we continue our mission to adv...

A few members of the EdChoice research team jumped in the studio to answer some of the most frequently asked questions about (you guessed it) our research. Listen now to learn more—from the services we provide the states to how we respond to critics of our work.

Our Vice President of Communications (and a lawyer in her own right) Jennifer Wagner sits down with our Vice President of Legal Affairs Leslie Hiner to introduce EdChoice's new Legal Defense and Education Center, or LDEC. Learn why we developed this new center and what type of work we'll be doing to help protect educational choice programs across America in this episode. For more information about...

Get the key findings from EdChoice’s annual survey of Americans on education issues and more, with a special focus on small town and rural families as well as new questions about the role of the federal government. The authors of our Schooling in America Survey—Paul DiPerna, Michael Shaw and Andrew D. Catt—join us in this episode to talk what's new, survey results and what's next. For the full rep...

The EdChoice team is investing more than ever in tracking school choice, children’s rights and teachers’ rights in the courts. Our VP of Communications Jennifer Wagner sat down with our VP of Legal Affairs Leslie Hiner to talk about the state of legal affairs in the school choice movement right now, what’s on the horizon and the supports EdChoice will provide to school choice’s defenders. Listen n...

In this podcast, EdChoice’s Director of State Research and Policy Analysis Drew Catt chats about the effects of school choice regulations on the homogenization of schools with the report’s authors Lindsey Burke—director of the Center for Education policy for the Heritage Foundation, an EdChoice fellow and doctoral candidate at George Mason University—and Corey DeAngelis, policy analyst at the Cato...