Policy Chat Debunking Education Freedom Myths During National School

Join us for a lively and informative conversation about education freedom misconceptions. IWF Education Freedom Center director Ginny Gentles and Corey DeAngelis, senior fellow at American Federation for Children, will dispel the most common school choice myths with facts and flair. Corey is a compelling speaker and writer and the co-editor of the book School Choice Myths: Setting the Record Straight on Education Freedom. He will explain what is true about empowering families and educators and why we should fund students, not systems. Ginny Gentles | $(document).ready( function() { // or shorthand of $( function () { $.each($(".latest-author"), function(index, value ) { if($( this ).text().indexOf("’") >= 0){ $author_name = $( this ).text(); $new_text = $author_name.replace("’", "'"); $(... Virginia Walden Ford | $(document).ready( function() { // or shorthand of $( function () { $.each($(".latest-author"), function(index, value ) { if($( this ).text().indexOf("’") >= 0){ $author_name = $( this ).text(); $new_text = $author_name.replace("’", "'");...

Staff | $(document).ready( function() { // or shorthand of $( function () { $.each($(".latest-author"), function(index, value ) { if($( this ).text().indexOf("’") >= 0){ $author_name = $( this ).text(); $new_text = $author_name.replace("’", "'"); $( this... Mary Vought | $(document).ready( function() { // or shorthand of $( function () { $.each($(".latest-author"), function(index, value ) { if($( this ).text().indexOf("’") >= 0){ $author_name = $( this ).text(); $new_text = $author_name.replace("’", "'"); $(... National School Choice Week (NSCW) provides an annual opportunity to celebrate existing educational opportunities, educate parents about their options, and advocate for expanding school choice programs. This NSCW, let’s also address a few school choice myths. Can you identify which of the following is NOT true about school choice? A.

School choice benefits the students and families who remain in public schools. B. School choice programs drain money from public education. Let’s take these statements one at a time: Denisha Allen failed third grade — twice — because she couldn’t read. “I was a student who was languishing in the system,” said Allen, whose family had lived in poverty for at least four generations.

She didn’t feel connected to or valued by her teachers. The one-size-fits-all education offered by her neighborhood school didn’t meet her needs, nor did it meet the needs of her mother, sister, and three brothers — all of whom dropped out of school. Everything changed for Allen when she found the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship before sixth grade. The scholarship made it possible for her to attend a local private school. “It really wasn’t until I started to go to this choice school that I began to not think of myself as a failure,” she said. Today Allen has a master’s degree.

She is a senior fellow at American Federation for Children and the founder of Black Minds Matter, a network of Black school founders, activists, education leaders, and parents. She attributes her academic and career success to the freedom afforded by that tax credit scholarship. “A different school didn’t just make dreams come true for me. It allowed me to have dreams I didn’t know I could have,” she wrote in the Wall Street Journal. Despite stories like Allen’s, as well as ample evidence that education freedom benefits students, school boards and teacher’s unions continue to fight it. In a recent op-ed for The Hill, Allen explained that these groups “perpetually insist that the status quo will magically fix itself someday, and the inequalities of our education system will disappear, perhaps with...

The freight train that is education freedom continues to run down the tracks across the country in 2024. Here are a few of the highlights: The progress continues to be amazing, but there are some myths about education freedom that continue to be perpetuated. It is important to dispel some of the more common myths that lawmakers are likely to hear when debate is inevitably held on expanding education freedom for students in their state. In addition, lawmakers looking to keep pace with states like Alabama can consult ALEC’s model policy, The Hope Scholarship Act, which offers a model for creating a universally-available EFA program, as well as ALEC’s... There are also a variety of good resources available from the Education Freedom Alliance, which is being led by ALEC and includes a variety of other national groups focused on bringing education freedom to...

Myth #1: Education freedom will bankrupt public schools. Fact: The myth that education freedom will “destroy” the public school system is probably the most common, and most deceptive, argument that opponents resort to. Every student is unique, and each one possesses a distinctive combination of skills, interests, aspirations, and goals. All students deserve the flexibility to choose the method of education that best suits their needs and prepares them to succeed in their future endeavors. The flexibility to empower students in this way can be achieved through education choice. Education choice refers to the idea that families should be able “to choose the best educational fit for their children,” whether that be a public, private, charter, or home school, online learning, or a...

However, any effort to implement education choice policies is usually met with opposition because of prevailing myths that are perpetuated by its opponents. These myths impede productive discussion about education policy and prevent the implementation of meaningful reforms. They must be addressed, examined, and debunked before change can move forward. This brief addresses five common myths concerning education choice in Idaho and presents the arguments and evidence to debunk them. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 20, 2024 CONTACT: Rachael Slobodien [email protected]

‍CONWAY, AR — This week marks one year since the historic LEARNS Act cleared the Arkansas Senate Education Committee, the beginning of the legislative process that would ultimately result in supermajority support for the... In recognition of this milestone, Opportunity Arkansas will be releasing a series of original products this week related to the LEARNS Act and education freedom. The first of these products is a new research report, released today, that dispels five major myths surrounding education freedom. Despite the overwhelming popularity of education freedom, many leftist groups and some in the media seek to spread misinformation about the program. This new report shines light on the myths and provides the facts about how education freedom actually works–and how it is already helping thousands of Arkansas families. In the report, “Fact vs.

Fiction: Dispelling Five Myths About Arkansas’s Education Freedom Accounts,” Opportunity Arkansas’s Visiting Economist Hayden Dublois and Founder and CEO Nic Horton tackle five primary myths about education freedom which include: Vladimir Kogan is a professor of political science at Ohio State University and the author of the new book No Adult Left Behind: How Politics Hijacks Education Policy and Hurts Kids. The book drew attention for its tough-minded critique of school boards and call for reforming school governance. Kogan is a scholar of American politics, democracy, and education, all of which make him especially well-suited for this thorny conversation. I reached out to chat with him about his take. Here’s what he had to say.—Rick

Rick: Recently, you published a new book, No Adult Left Behind: How Politics Hijacks Education Policy and Hurts Kids. That’s a no-holds-barred title. What are you arguing? Vladimir: My thesis is that the core problem in public education is local voter control. Most of the voters who participate in school board elections don’t have school-age children. This produces a governance system gerrymandered to serve the interests of adults rather than students.

And adult voting behavior is influenced by all sorts of considerations that are either unrelated to the quality of education or even in conflict with running effective schools. Rick: Where did your interest in school boards come from? Vladimir: I’ve been sort of obsessed with school boards since I first attended meetings as the editor of my high school newspaper. This book builds on academic research that I’ve been doing with my colleagues here at Ohio State and at Emory. We received a grant from the Spencer Foundation to collect data on school board elections and school tax referenda in about 20 states, which resulted in several published studies. This book hopes to make the key findings more accessible to the general public.

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