Joanne Jacobs
Mayors: Don’t limit new charters
Families want and need new charter schools, write a bipartisan group of mayors in an open letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona....
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Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 15, 2022
- 1 min
Indy charters: 116-day boost in math
Indianapolis charter students are dramatically outperforming similar students in district-run schools, concludes a new study by Stanford...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 26, 2022
- 2 min
#1 school for rigor is charter on Mexican border
At IDEA McAllen College Prep, a charter school near the Mexican border, 77 percent of students come from low-income families and nearly...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 18, 2022
- 2 min
Biden picks teachers’ unions over students
The Biden administration has abandoned the Obama legacy on charter schools and chosen teachers’ unions over students, writes Jonathan...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 20, 2018
- 2 min
Public supports raising teacher pay
Public support for raising teacher pay is climbing, reports the 2018 Education Next survey. Support for increasing teacher pay was...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 19, 2018
- 1 min
NC parents choose alternatives
North Carolina public schools are losing students to charter schools, private schools and homeschooling, reports T. Keung Hui in the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 17, 2018
- 2 min
New Orleans improves — a lot
“After Katrina’s devastation, New Orleans embarked on the the most ambitious education overhaul in modern America,” writes David...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 19, 2018
- 2 min
Integration is not parents’ priority
With charter schools, urban parochial schools and “a few unicorn-y school districts” showing that low-income black and Latino kids can do...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 18, 2018
- 2 min
Equity and excellence
New York City’s elite high schools are filled with Asian-American students — many from low-income, immigrant families — who’ve aced the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 3, 2018
- 1 min
Charter support rebounds
Charter support, which dropped last year, is rebounding, especially among blacks and Republicans, according to University of Southern...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 26, 2018
- 2 min
A better school for my child
Lane Wright and his wife bought a home in a racially and economically diverse neighborhood in Tallahassee, he writes on Education Post....
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 27, 2018
- 1 min
Closing the gap in Chicago
Two Chicago charter schools are closing the achievement gap for low-income, black children, according to a new book, The Ambitious...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 27, 2018
- 2 min
Low-scoring school is better — but not good
Locke High has improved in its 10 years as a Green Dot charter school. But it remains a very low-performing school, report Kyle Stokes...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 21, 2018
- 1 min
Despite legal fights, charters thrive in Washington state
Operating under a “cloud of legal uncertainty” and often housed in portables, Washington state’s charter schools are attracting students,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 20, 2018
- 1 min
More brains for the bucks at urban charters
Charter schools provide higher achievement for less money in eight cities, concludes a University of Arkansas study. “Public charter...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 4, 2018
- 2 min
Can charters be ‘schools of virtue’
Urban Catholic schools are closing, victims of an obsolete funding model, writes Stephanie Saroki de García of Seton Partners. The...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 26, 2018
- 1 min
Disabled kids need well-off parents
Affluent parents in New York City hire lawyers to sue for private-school tuition for their special-needs children, writes Jim Epstein on...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 24, 2018
- 1 min
School choice shouldn’t be controversial
School choice shouldn’t be controversial, writes Chris Stewart on Citizen Ed. School Choice Week reminds us that “hundreds of thousands...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 15, 2018
- 2 min
Most improved cities: Chicago? Or New Orleans, D.C.
New Orleans and Washington, D.C. — not Chicago — are the fastest-improving urban districts, argue Emily Langhorne and David Osborne of...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 7, 2017
- 1 min
District-charter collaboration gains popularity
A new model for urban education — a portfolio of traditional and charter schools — is gaining ground, reports Matt Barnum on Chalkbeat....
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