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Publications Never lose a debate with a global warming alarmist!   July 15, 2021 Local affiliate Fox 45 News’s ongoing “Project Baltimore” investigation has uncovered that 41 percent of high school students in Baltimore City Public Schools (BCPS) received a grade point average below 1.0, or below a D average, this past school year. Essentially, roughly 8,400 of Baltimore’s 20,500 high school students have GPA’s considered failing. The micro-level results in BCPS are just as horrifying as the macro-level results. For example, Fox 45 News also uncovered that over 41 percent of the ...

Publications Never lose a debate with a global warming alarmist!   Research & Commentary: Making the Invest in Kids Program Permanent is the Right Way to Go for Illinois May 12, 2021 Program Provided Scholarships For Over 5,500 Students In 2020, With Over 32,000 Still On Wait List A bipartisan group of legislators have introduced a bill to make the Invest in Kids Program, Illinois’ tax-credit scholarship (TCS) program for low-income students which is set to expire in 2022, a permanent program. Enacted in 2017, the Invest in Kids Program is open to families with household income levels be...

Publications Never lose a debate with a global warming alarmist!   May 6, 2021 Every Ohio Child Would Become Eligible For Highly Popular Educational Choice Scholarship Voucher Legislation introduced in the Ohio House of Representatives would ensure that every child in the Buckeye State would be eligible to participate in the state’s highly popular Educational Choice Scholarship voucher program. This “Backpack Bill” (as in education funds will follow a child like a backpack) has been introduced as a “‘Legislative Intent Bill’ while lawmakers debate Ohio’s education funding formu...

Publications Never lose a debate with a global warming alarmist!   May 6, 2021 Forty School Choice Programs Have Saved Between $12.1 And $27.8 Billion Through 2018 A Working Paper released by EdChoice in March 2021 finds that education choice programs have saved taxpayers between $12.1 billion and $27.8 billion through Fiscal Year (FY) 2018. The Fiscal Effects of Private K–12 Education Programs in the United States, authored by EdChoice’s Director of Fiscal Policy and Analysis Martin Lueken, analyzed data from 40 separate private school choice programs—including 19 voucher programs, 18...

Publications Never lose a debate with a global warming alarmist!   May 7, 2021 Education Choice Associated With Higher NAEP Achievement Levels, Higher Gains A March 2021 report from the School Choice Demonstration Project at the University of Arkansas finds that states with higher levels of education choice, or “education freedom,” are associated with higher achievement levels and higher achievement gains on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test, colloquially known as the “Nation’s Report Card.” In Education Freedom and Student Achievement: Is More School Cho...