In July, the Texas Senate Committee on Education announced it will be studying a school choice program using education savings accounts, or ESAs. ESAs may be a new concept to many Texans, but they’re ...

The lead-up to the 2025-26 school year marked the first time all students could apply for Arkansas' Educational Freedom Accounts, the $277.4 million initiative that greatly expands taxpayers' funding ...

Shakespeare wasn’t talking about Texas education policy when he wrote, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.” But he could have been. The idea ...

About this series: A growing number of states are making school choices funding available to parents, often without regard to their financial means. Over the past two months, CNHI reporters have ...

As Arkansas expands its publicly funded private school voucher system, now in its second year of accepting applications, the condition of similar programs and efforts in neighboring states remains ...

When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott finally called a special legislative session to begin on Oct. 9, he followed through on a promise, or a threat, depending on your view, to bring state lawmakers back to ...

“That will give all parents the ability to choose the best education option for their child,” he said during a parental rights event in Corpus Christi in January, where he announced his support for ...

FOR A LESS AMBITIOUS EXPANSION OF THE PROGRAM. ADVOCATES FOR SCHOOL CHOICE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE CAME TO CONCORD, DECKED OUT IN THEIR YELLOW SCARVES, BUT DIDN’T GET ALL THE BIG VICTORIES THEY WERE HOPING ...