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• School Choice Reduces Crime, Increases College-Attendance, and Makes Your Breath Smell Better

  
  Jay P. Greene's Blog — Authority: 420
  Well, at least the first two claims are supported by rigorous new research based on school choice lotteries in Charlotte, North Carolina. Harvard researcher, David Deming , looked at a public school choice program that allows families to rank order their preferred schools and then admits students by a weighted ...
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• Good News: U.S. Charter Schools Reach Milestone

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  What began as an experiment in 1992 has become 5,043 charter schools in 39 states and the District of Columbia, providing nearly 2 million American families with opportunity not available in the public school system. Jeanne Allen, president of The Center for Education Reform, said parent demand fueled the rise. "No ...
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• Save the Children—in Washington, D.C.

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 761
  Speaking on education this past March, President Obama told Americans that he believes in only “one test when deciding what ideas to support with your precious tax dollars: It’s not whether an idea is liberal or conservative, but whether it works.” OK, great! Here’s something that works: the D.C. ...
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• N.H. high court to hear case of girl ordered out of homeschooling

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 532
  Christian Post : "Courts can settle disputes, but they cannot legitimately order a child into a government-run school on the basis that her religious views need to be mixed with other views. That’s precisely what the lower court admitted it is doing in this case, and that’s where our concern lies, said Alliance ...
  3 days ago

• Germany: Judge Fines Homeschoolers, No Jail Sentence

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 532
  HLSDA : "Jurgen and Rosemarie Dudek of Archfeld, Germany, were found guilty under the German State of Hessen’s criminal law that requires that all children go to school. Even as Judge Drier recognized that the family was doing a fine job in educating their children, he still imposed a fine of 120 euros on them."
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• U.S. Charter Schools Reach Milestone

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 532
  Citizen Link : "What began as an experiment in 1992 has become 5,043 charter schools in 39 states and the District of Columbia, providing nearly 2 million American families with opportunity not available in the public school system."
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• Idaho Attorney General’s office rebukes Nampa charter school amid lawsuit threat

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 532
  Mercury News (AP) a: "The Alliance Defense Fund said the school doesnt have to hand over anything because of a federal lawsuit it filed in September against the state concerning the schools plan to use the Bible. The group said in the letter that it is considering a second lawsuit against the state to determine ...
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• Attorney: We won’t let Nampa Classical Academy shut down

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 532
  Idaho Press Tribune : "The school and Charter Commission have clashed over the use of the Bible and other religious texts in the Academys classrooms. Cortman, of the Alliance Defense Fund, represents the school in a federal lawsuit against the state asking a judge to allow the school to use religious texts in a ...
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• New Hampshire High Court to hear case of homeschooled girl ordered to attend public school

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 532
  Christian Examiner : "An Alliance Defense Fund allied attorney representing the mother stated that he is concerned when a court treads on the parents’ right to make sound choices for their children. Courts can settle disputes, but they cannot legitimately order a child into a government-run school on the basis that ...
  4 days ago

• Hearing for homeschooler forced into gov’t system

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 532
  WorldNetDaily : "Courts can settle disputes, but they cannot legitimately order a child into a government-run school on the basis that her religious views need to be mixed with other views. Thats precisely what the lower court admitted it is doing in this case, and thats where our concern lies, ADF-allied attorney ...
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• Charter school using Bible controversy continues

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 532
  Charter Schools Examiner : "The controversy over Idahos Nampa Classical Academy’s alleged use of religious texts has turned into a tug-a-war between the Idaho Attorney Generals office and the Arizona based religious liberty group, The Alliance Defense Fund."
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• NH Supreme Court accepts case of home-schooled girl ordered into government-run school

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 532
  The Church Report : "Courts can settle disputes, but they cannot legitimately order a child into a government-run school on the basis that her religious views need to be mixed with other views. That’s precisely what the lower court admitted it is doing in this case, and that’s where our concern lies, said ...
  6 days ago

• WaPo: “Save the Vouchers”

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 761
  From the Washington Post editorial board this Sunday: OPTIMISM THAT the District’s federally funded school voucher program will be allowed to flourish is fading. Leading Democrats say that they are open to letting new students enter the program, but efforts to make that a reality seem to have stalled. Indeed, it ...
  6 days ago

• Arizona Shows K-12 Tax Credit Program Saves State Millions of Dollars

  
  Ed is Watching — Authority: 419
  Should Colorado enact a K-12 scholarship tax credit program that empowers families to choose private schools? It may sound crazy politically, yet the idea would make sense not only to expand choice for families but also to help the state save money during an especially tough budget year. What, you say, you don’t ...
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• NH Supreme Court accepts case of home-schooled girl ordered into government-run school

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 532
  "The New Hampshire Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case of a 10-year-old home-schooled New Hampshire girl ordered into a government-run school."
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• Bible as textbook? Idaho school under fire

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 532
  Salt Lake Tribune : "The Idaho Attorney Generals office has told Nampa Classical Academy officials the state wont back down from pursuing information about the charter schools possible use of the Bible and other religious texts . . . The Alliance Defense Fund said the school doesnt have to hand over anything because ...
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• Idaho AG’s office rebukes Nampa charter school

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 532
  Local News 8 (AP) : "In an e-mail sent Friday to school officials and obtained by the Idaho Press-Tribune, deputy attorney general Mike Gilmore says the Idaho Public Charter School Commission and its program manager, Tamara Baysinger, will not comply with a Wednesday letter sent by the Alliance Defense Fund to the ...
  6 days ago

• Nampa charter may defy state

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 532
  Idaho Press Tribune : "Nampa Classical Academys attorney has advised the school to defy an order from the states Public Charter School Commission and use religious texts in its classrooms . . . The Wednesday letter from ADF says the Charter Commissions recent reprimands of the school are in direct retaliation for the ...
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• New Hampshire Family Court Orders Girl to Public School over Home Schooling Preference of Mother

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 532
  Blackstone Legal Fellow Nathan Fox has written an article in the Federalist Societys State Court Docket Watch (Fall 2009) that begins (citations omitted): In a case that is of great consequence to education law, as well as to religious liberties issues more broadly, a New Hampshire state court judge recently ...
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• Glad to Have My Skepticism Validated about Denver’s “Boundary School” Idea

  
  Ed is Watching — Authority: 419
  Last week I asked what Denver Public Schools was up to with a plan to change the enrollment policies for some of its charter schools, making them into “boundary schools.” What’s up with that? When you’re 5 years old like I am, you can tend to be insecure about questioning authority so often. Thus I was ...
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