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Ed Choice Moves to Defend Multiple Wisconsin School Choice Programs
2+ hour, 20+ min ago (368+ words) Press Release: For Immediate Release April 15, 2026 For more information contact Mairead Elordi at [email'protected] Ed Choice Moves to Defend Multiple Wisconsin School Choice Programs EAU CLAIRE "This week,'on behalf of Wisconsin families,'Ed Choice'Legal Advocates filed a motion to…...
How Many Choice Students Have Special Needs? Thousands More Than Last Year.
6+ day, 26+ min ago (207+ words) As my'colleague John Kristof'observed'in'last year's version of this article,'a law is only as good as its enforcement, and the'Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)'is no exception.' As Senior Research Assistant at Ed Choice, Alli studies school choice, public…...
Is Arizona's ESA Plagued by Unallowable Expenses?
1+ week, 6+ day ago (566+ words) Determining'how these funds are being spent'is a monumental task, and'the sheer volume of transactions'has'led'different sources'to take'different methods managing the data toward answers. We took a'two-track approach, aiming to provide as rigorous and relevant a study as possible. The second'track'is a…...
The Long View: What a Universal ESA Could Mean for Texas
2+ week, 6+ day ago (606+ words) Education policy debates often focus on short-term questions: How much does a program cost? What happened to test scores this year?" But education is an investment in human capital. The real question is what happens to students over the course…...
Misspending Rates in Arizona's ESA Program Have Been Wildly Overstated
4+ week, 2+ day ago (816+ words) As of this school year, over 100, 000 studentshave enrolled in Arizona's Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) program. Their families are spending more than $900 million per year on a variety of educational environments for their children. When the number gets that big, there…...
The Texas EFA Program, Explained
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (951+ words) My colleague Alli Aldis'wrote a great piece'last week detailing the initial surge in applications for the Texas EFA program, comparing it to other states" first few months after launching their education savings account programs. This piece will serve as an…...
A High-Stakes Day in Court: Ed Choice Defends Wyoming's ESA Program in Oral Arguments
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (453+ words) In 2024, Wyoming took an important step toward making Milton and Rose Friedman's vision for universal educational freedom a reality, only to see that progress immediately challenged in court in a lawsuit filed by the National Education Association against state officials....
Arizona's ESA Program Crosses the 100, 000-Student Threshold
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (697+ words) In the summer of 2022, Doug Ducey, the governor of Arizona at that time, signed a bill to expand the Arizona ESA program to make every student in the state eligible to participate. Beyond making Arizona's ESA program the first ESA…...