Category: Education

School Choice Makes “Cents” for Oregon’s Budget By Jeff W. Reed As Oscar…

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For release March 10, 2010 Cascade Policy Institute & Foundation for Educational Choice…

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Speech to the Junior State of America by Christina Martin Cascade’s Christina Martin…

Summary: Instead of blocking innovation in education, the Oregon Legislature should ensure that…

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    Summary: Corbett High School is one of the top 100 public…

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Summary: A recent U.S. Supreme Court case requiring a school district to reimburse…

Oregon’s public schools are failing Oregon students. That became even clearer on August…

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David struggled in public school. His individual learning needs were not being met….

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A Hillsboro 8th grader will receive up to ten thousand dollars to help…

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Summary: House Bill 2754 would create two education tax credits, one for families’…

By Eric Fruits, Ph.D. Executive summary Currently, Oregon parents of public school children…

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Where do Oregonians send their children to school? Where would they send them…

– Survey Results Find Strong Support for School Choice Among Democrats, Independents, Republicans…

Many policymakers in Oregon have concluded that global warming is a crisis, that…

Did you know that in the last ten years, over 600 Oregon children…

Summary The proposed renewal of the five-year levy that created the Portland Children’s…

The U.S. Department of Education has released a report entitled “Preserving a Critical…

Summary Absent serious structural reforms such as school-level competition, paying for performance in…

Introduction and Executive Summary This report examines the potential for using performance incentives…

Last week Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue signed legislation enacting a new school choice…

The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice recently released a poll of 1,000 likely…

Summary A federal review found Oregon’s Child Welfare program to be in “substantial…

Summary Why has Governor Ted Kulongoski left at-risk and abused kids waiting during…

Summary Calculating the true per-student cost of public education in Oregon is complicated,…

Recently, the Oregon Board of Education took up the issue of whether and…

The Portland Public School Board recently denied all four requests from charter school…

Contrary to what the interest groups who run our public education system keep…

Do you believe in Santa Claus? By the time many people think they…

In 1999 local Oregon donors pledged one million dollars to begin the Children’s…

Last summer the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation released a study entitled…

The Oregon Legislature recently passed a 6.2 billion dollar budget for K-12 education…

The conventional wisdom in Oregon is that we’ve been “disinvesting” in public schools…

Last week the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation released a landmark study…

The mix of traditional school closures, charter school openings, and transfers out of…

Finally, low-income students and their parents will be able to see the Oregon…

On Monday, Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman signed the nation’s first universal school voucher…

Oregon’s charter school law requires 50 percent of online charter school students to…

An influential group of business and political leaders just completed their fifth annual…

How many of us remember the scenes of young East Germans risking their…

The biggest private foundation in the world is pouring millions of dollars into…

Oregonians have nixed a sales tax nine times at the ballot box, yet…

Oregon owns a billion dollars worth of agricultural and timber land that is…

INTRODUCTION by Steve Buckstein In 1991, two distinct educational reform paths took off…

The Portland Public School District is going through a painful process of closing…

The Black Alliance for Educational Options and the Cascade Policy Institute present highlights…

The Black Alliance for Educational Options and the Cascade Policy Institute present highlights…

The American Beverage Association announced last week that it has worked with the…

While most Portlanders are focused on the Portland Public School District’s financial woes…

Introduction In January, 2006, the Portland School Board voted to “reorder” the Jefferson…

Critics Charge Portland Public Schools with Sub-Standard Education This report was recently covered…

Critics Charge Portland Public Schools with Sub-Standard Education This report was recently covered…

Oregon’s school funding debate has entered a new phase. Last week several school…

Kirby Dyess, vice president of the State Board of Higher Education, stunned her…

If you can’t convince legislators to spend more money on the public school…

One of the biggest challenges for parents is deciding where to live in…

Last week the Florida Supreme Court threw out the state’s “Opportunity Scholarships” that…

Oregon Superintendent of Public Instruction Susan Castillo decided last week that a key…

Can states solve their public education problems by directing a higher percentage of…

Hurricane Katrina’s 372,000 displaced school children have become pawns in a political game…

Oregon recently became the first state to require prescriptions for medications whose ingredients…

It’s not hard to understand why many parents and students believe that Oregon’s…

Test scores are one way to judge our public schools. But no one…

Many public school supporters blame poor academic results on stingy taxpayers. On July…

People who argue that Oregon’s public schools need more tax dollars lost another…

While the D.C. school system spends more per pupil than most US cities,…

Sharon Kitzhaber was interviewed for the Dec. 24, 2003 Willamette Week. The former…

Despite reform efforts, school performance is improving slowly, if at all, and continues…

Who is responsible for your children’s education? One hundred fifty years ago the…

The Oregon Board of Higher Education approved a change that allows state universities…

Salem-Keizer School District board members just learned that they could have reduced expenses…

A June 22 Oregonian story reported that a significant number of Oregon middle…

A recent document from the Confederation of Oregon School Administrators (COSA) trumpets that…

The Oregon State Senate recently advanced education freedom by eliminating mandatory testing of…

The recent deal between the city, county and school district and teachers’ union…

Oregon education officials recently revealed what many have long known – the public…

The intellectual debate about school spending in Oregon is coming to a close….

Discontent with Oregon’s education reform is now coming from new areas. Recently the…

A recent report by an Oregon legislative task force outlines how the state…

The bipartisan No Child Left Behind education bill is unlikely to achieve its…

The debate surrounding government education and religion took an interesting turn with recent…

Oregon passed its charter school law to foster educational freedom. The recent negotiations…

Last week the U.S. Supreme Court issued its long awaited ruling that low-income…