The Heartland Institute

... cut above the rest in offering parents extensive opportunities to control their children’s education, according to the 2013 Parent Power Index from the Center for... Education Reform (CER) vice president. Empowering parents increases student achievement, the center also... there it’s really hard for parents... ...

... With Herbert Walberg, Let’s Put Parents Back in Charge! (Chicago: Heartland Institute... Behrend, Ben Boychuk, and Marc Oestreich, The Parent Trigger: A Model for Transforming Education, August... Sun-Times , June 28, 2004. “Can Parents Choose the Best Schools for their... Party, Atlanta, May 30, 2004... ...

... Massachusetts Bay Colony – passed laws making parents and ministers responsible for ensuring children... to schools based on where their parents live because that’s easier for... and competition to education by funding parents rather than schools: parents decide which schools their children attend... education... ...

... shows strong and widespread support — among parents of CPS students and among other... favor a law that would empower parents to take control of a persistently... to manage the school. That's the "parent trigger" law that has shaken the status quo in California. There's a push for such laws... ...

... 2. Maryland legislators are considering a Parent Trigger bill . 3. Maine's governor tucked... s Senate Education committee passes a Parent Trigger bill 7-3 . 3. A 20... want to attend college? 9. Colorado parents get angry at their son's... days, and expand the state's Parent Trigger... ...

The speech in the attached PDF was delivered by Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast on February 23, 2013, at the Eighth Annual Wisconsin Conservative Conference, Bluemound Gardens, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. An excerpt is below: In 2016, in time for the next presidential election, every child now in high school will be eligible ...