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NEPC Review: Balancing Act: Schools, Neighborhoods, and Racial Imbalance (Brookings Institution, November 2017)

NEPC Review

Genevieve Siegel-Hawley and Erica Frankenberg

February 8, 2018

How Voucher Advocates Created a Blue-State Loophole to Trump’s Tax Law

Policy Memo

Kevin G. Welner

January 24, 2018

The State of Education Savings Account Programs in the United States

Policy Brief

Oscar Jiménez-Castellanos, William J. Mathis, and Kevin G. Welner

January 23, 2018

NEPC Review: The Policy Framework for Online Charter Schools (Center on Reinventing Public Education, October 2015)

NEPC Review

Gary Miron

April 18, 2016

The Business of Charter Schooling: Understanding the Policies that Charter Operators Use for Financial Benefit

Research Brief

Bruce D. Baker and Gary Miron

December 10, 2015

Silver Linings Casebook: How Vergara’s Backers May Lose by Winning

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner

June 3, 2015

Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act: Time to Move Beyond Test-Focused Policies

Policy Memo

Kevin G. Welner and William J. Mathis

February 12, 2015

First Fish Chronicles: My Testimony to the United States Senate

Blog Post of the Day

Emily Cherkin

January 16, 2026

Tomorrow's Mess: What the AI Executive Order Can't Do

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Casey Mock

December 17, 2025

Janresseger: Trump Attack on Fair Housing Will Impact Public School Integration

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Jan Resseger

December 16, 2025

Shanker Blog: Reading Legislation in California and Massachusetts – Is There a Third Path?

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Esther Quintero and Susan B. Neuman

November 20, 2025

Ed Politics: How the Trump Administration Wields the Federal Government’s Power Over Public Education

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Jeff Bryant

October 28, 2025

Janresseger: Important New Court Ruling Protects Equity and Inclusion in Public Schools and Students’ Civil Rights

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Jan Resseger

October 23, 2025

10th Period: Unconstitutional Voucher Program Can't Be Fixed Easily

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Stephen Dyer

August 22, 2025

School Finance 101: Preserving an Educated Future for America (Short Term Plan)

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Bruce D. Baker

August 12, 2025

Shanker Blog: Science of Reading Laws: Let’s Begin With the Facts

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Esther Quintero, Kayla Reist, and Susan B. Neuman

July 25, 2025

10th Period: Judge Lays Bare Unconstitutional Voucher Program

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Stephen Dyer

July 22, 2025

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Separation of Church and State: Critical for Public Schools and America!

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Nancy Bailey

July 11, 2025

Josh Cowen's Newsletter: Vouchers and the Rest of the Right-Wing, Anti-Family Agenda: Looking Back and Looking Ahead

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Joshua Cowen

June 5, 2025

10th Period: Data: Ohio Vouchers Clearly Unconstitutional

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Stephen Dyer

May 28, 2025

Janresseger: The First Amendment’s Establishment Clause Remains Central to the Future of Public Education

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Jan Resseger

May 20, 2025

Janresseger: Trump Says He’ll Fully Return Education to the States: Why That’s a Dangerous Idea

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Jan Resseger

May 5, 2025

Janresseger: What About that “Dear Colleague” Letter from Trump’s Dept. of Ed. Attacking Schools on Race and Diversity?

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Jan Resseger

April 21, 2025

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: What Does the U.S. Department of Education Do? Enforcing Laws to Protect Students

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Nancy Bailey

April 11, 2025

Janresseger: Ohio’s Journey From Public Education to School Privatization

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Jan Resseger

April 1, 2025

Josh Cowen's Newsletter: Thoughts on the Election, Answering Questions from My Recent PFPS Webinar, and a Renewed Opposition

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Joshua Cowen

February 3, 2025

Radical Eyes for Equity: “Science” as Bad Faith Bullying

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P.L. Thomas

January 27, 2025

Josh Cowen's Newsletter:Three Kinds of Voucher Billionaires—and Other Big Questions

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Joshua Cowen

January 10, 2025

Josh Cowen's Newsletter: And Now for Some Good News!

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Joshua Cowen

December 13, 2024

Shanker Blog: Digital Technology and the Reading Brain: What Reading Legislation Overlooks

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Esther Quintero and Kayla Reist

November 21, 2024

Shanker Blog: A Legislator’s Lessons From Fifth Graders

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Becca Rausch

October 29, 2024

Shanker Blog: New Hampshire’s Divisive Concepts Law Was Ruled Unconstitutional, Sending a Message to the Nation

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Deb Howes

October 16, 2024

Janresseger: Erasing the Line that Separates Church and State in Education

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Jan Resseger

October 15, 2024

picture of graduation cap reading "school vouchers" on top of diploma and cash

Federally Funded School Vouchers: Contrasting Party Views

Newsletter

September 19, 2024

Janresseger: States Persistently Fail to Invest Enough in Their Public Schools

Blog Post of the Day

Jan Resseger

July 24, 2024

Janresseger: Seventy Years After “Brown v. Board” Decision, School Segregation Keeps Growing

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Jan Resseger

June 21, 2024

Answer Sheet: Kentucky Judge Rules State Charter School Law Is Unconstitutional

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Valerie Strauss

February 8, 2024

Radical Eyes for Equity: Research Roundup January 2024 [Updated]

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P.L. Thomas

February 1, 2024

Gadfly on the Wall: Teaching in Pennsylvania’s Unconstitutional School Funding System

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Steven Singer

November 20, 2023

Janresseger: Important New Publication Explores How Inadequate School Funding is Intertwined With Race and Segregation

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Jan Resseger

October 26, 2023

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