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A growing body of empirical evidence demonstrates the many positive benefits of providing choice in education.

What is the measure of a good school? And who is best positioned to decide what works? For decades, policymakers, and education officials have attempted to bolster school “accountability” by increasing regulations on schools across the board—public, charter, and private. They have tried to do so at the federal level for half a century, with federal intervention in K-12 education hitting a high-water mark under the Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind policy and the Obama administration’s attempts to pressure states into adopting Common Core..

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Some of the poorest performing public schools in America can befound in the nation's capital. Despite per-pupil expenditures ofmore than $11,000, 94 percent of 4th grade students in Washington,D.C., are not proficient in math, and 90 percent lack proficiencyin reading, according to the National Assessment of EducationalProgress (NAEP). Given the failure of other reforms to improve thecity's poor academic achievement and the growing recognition thatadditional funding alone will not improve the system, Congress hasan historic opportunity to support D.C. students by authorizing andfundi...

/PRNewswire/ -- Award-winning Austrian tech company Legitary provides an AI powered technology that automatically scans billions of streams to identify...