Alaskans for Choice in Education

WE NEED TO ACTIVELY ENCOURAGE LEGISLATORS-HELP THEM HELP US!

We need your help now to get more legislators on board to support the constitutional amendments, SJR9 and HJR1. And we need  your help immediately. We need to work on the following legislators to get their support. If one …

Mike Dingman: Vouching for SJR 9

If you have read the newspapers or watched the news on television in the last couple of weeks, you may be pretty well convinced that the Alaska State Senate is trying to give away education funds in the form of …

Cut ‘Blaine Amendment’ from state constitution

By KRISTINA JOHANNES

Our founding fathers recognized that there is such a thing as self-evident truth and so they based our country on this ideal.

One self-evident truth is that parents have the right to oversee the education of their …

Parnell supports giving voters a say on amendment

“Gov. Sean Parnell supports legislative efforts to let voters decide whether to change the constitution to allow public funds to be used for private schools…” (Read more…)

(By Becky Bohrer: The Associated Press)…

Patrick J. Wolf: Research shows school vouchers benefit students

Tennessee is considering launching a private school choice program for certain K-12 students. If the proposal passes, the Volunteer State would join 17 others that are operating or have passed into law 33 such scholarship programs.

Do scholarship programs work? …

School vouchers improve chances of attending college

An evaluation of a school voucher program in Milwaukee showed that high school students who had used the vouchers for tuition at private schools were more likely to complete at least one year of college and start a second year …

Voucher study focuses on high school graduation: First strong evidence of educational attainment gains

(Phys.org) —More students who used vouchers in a Washington, D.C., program to attend private schools graduated from high school than students in public schools who did not receive the vouchers, according to a University of Arkansas researcher.  (Read more……

School choice measures find success in Alabama, Tennessee

BY: Lachlan Markay
March 1, 2013 2:01 pm

The Alabama state legislature pushed through major school choice reforms on Thursday evening despite opposition from state Democrats and teachers’ unions.

The reforms followed legislative success in neighboring Tennessee where a school …