The Heartland Institute

As vouchers and tax credits move from theory to practice in cities and states across the country, greater attention is being focused on matters of program design. One design feature that could boost the effectiveness of school choice and possibly minimize the threat of increased regulation of participating schools is Education ...

Since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled school vouchers are constitutional in 2002, grassroots activists around the country have been organizing to support passage of school choice programs. Legislatures passed statewide programs in Florida and Colorado, and other states are expected to follow their lead. Some 35 cities have privately ...

I recently received a letter from the former superintendent of a public school system in Illinois. The writer said spending more money on the state s public schools wouldn t make them better, but that extending the number of hours children spend in school would. His letter got me thinking. ...