Why has Tennessee K-12 education experienced a "lost decade", while by comparison, a decade of revolutionary reforms has led to extraordinary K-12 achievement gains in Florida? The Foundation for Educational Choice's new study "Lessons for Tennessee from Florida's Education Revolution" explains why and attempts to show lessons the Volunteer State could learn from the Sunshine State.
A new survey of Indiana voters by The Foundation for Educational Choice shows that the Hoosier State broadly supports vouchers and charter schools. It also shows that most hoosiers are unaware of how much is spent in public schools as most respondents to the survey substantially
While 11 states and the District of Columbia divvy up $4.35 billion in Race to the Top funds to attempt to fix the nation's public schools, a new proposal is being floated to instead use the same amount of money to offer students a chance to attend the school of their choice.
Voters in Alabama, Arkansas, Kansas, Mississippi, New Jersey, and New York decidedly favor charter schools, tax-credit scholarships, and vouchers, according to a new report released today by the Indianapolis-based Foundation for Educational Choice.
Montana's 37,000 high school dropouts cost state taxpayers nearly $23 million in Medicaid payments and about $216 million in lost taxable earnings annually, according to a new study released today by the Foundation for Educational Choice and the Montana Family Foundation.
California's 3.8 million high school dropouts cost state taxpayers more than $1 billion in Medicaid payments and another almost $1 billion in lost tax revenue due to the lack of a quality education, according to a new study released today by the Foundation for Educational Choice.
A new study by The Foundation for Educational Choice finds that the BOAST Tax Credit proposal could produce net fiscal savings to the state of Maryland ranging from $7 million to $267 million over a 10-year period.