Our Director of State Research and Special Projects Drew Catt and Research Assistant Mike Shaw join up with our President and CEO Robert Enlow to talk about a new EdChoice research report. Catt and Shaw, the authors Indiana’s Schooling Deserts—our latest report—used Geographic Information System software to map Hoosier families’ drive times to traditional public, magnet, charter and voucher-participating private schools. That first-of-its-kind mapping allowed us to identify where three kinds of ...
Aug 22, 2018•29 min
In this Monthly Debrief podcast, EdChoice’s Director of State Relations Lauren Hodge, Director of Policy Jason Bedrick and Senior Director of State Relations Michael Chartier discuss the latest school choice happenings in the states in July and look forward to what’s still to come as we close out August 2018. Learn more on our website at www.edchoice.org.
Aug 21, 2018•23 min
In today’s EdChoice Chat, Director of National Research Mike McShane talks with Thomas Moran, Jr., the president and CEO of a growing Catholic school in inner-city New Orleans. They talk about how the school started and is growing, how they manage to keep tuition free and what they’re doing to close achievement gaps. To learn more, visit www.edchoice.org.
Aug 14, 2018•38 min
In today’s episode of EdChoice Chats, Vice President of Communications Jennifer Wagner chats with Vice President of Legal Affairs Leslie Hiner about several court cases, including the U.S. Supreme Court Janus v. ASFCME case and an ongoing case about Florida’s school choice programs. To learn more, visit www.edchoice.org.
Aug 07, 2018•28 min
Marty Lueken chats with Friedman Fellow Dr. Mike Podgursky about why he started studying the education labor market, his upcoming research and more. To learn more, visit www.edchoice.org.
Jul 31, 2018•16 min
Mike McShane chats with Jeffrey Baker, the school administrator of the Santa Fe Waldorf School. This prekindergarten through 12th grade school follows the nearly 100-year-old hands-on educational model put forth by Rudolf Steiner. Listen to the podcast or read the transcript to discover how this school developed, challenges it has overcome and more. To learn more, visit www.edchoice.org.
Jul 24, 2018•31 min
Our state team lets you in on legislative movement in the states last month and what’s coming up in July. Learn more at www.edchoice.org.
Jul 17, 2018•17 min
We are excited to kick off this new series—School Choice in Pop Culture—where different members of our team chat about how school choice is represented in popular TV shows and movies. In this episode, two fans of The West Wing, our Director of National Research Mike McShane and our CRM and Email Marketing Manager Abby Hayes, discuss four clips from the popular early-2000s television series. In the show, the U.S. president, his staff and the District of Columbia’s mayor are debating whether to en...
Jul 10, 2018•30 min
Highlands Micro School leader Anne Wintemute explains what a micro school’s philosophy is and how it works in the classroom. To learn more, visit www.edchoice.org.
Jul 03, 2018•31 min
Our latest brief, which compiles the results of a survey of New Hampshire Private Schools, had some results that surprised even EdChoice Director of Policy and former New Hampshire legislator Jason Bedrick. Listen to the team’s discussion of the results here. To learn more about educational choice, visit www.edchoice.org
Jun 25, 2018•21 min
In today’s episode of EdChoice Chats, our Director of Fiscal Policy Dr. Marty Lueken talks with Lisa Snell, education director at the Reason Foundation, about a report she coauthored that examines the fiscal outlook of the Los Angeles Unified School District. Short story: It’s not a sunny picture. Listen to hear Marty and Lisa discuss how LA Unified’s trouble is similar to that of other districts in the United States and how school choice could be part of the solution. To learn more about school...
Jun 20, 2018•32 min
In this Monthly Debrief podcast, EdChoice’s Director of State Relations Lauren Hodge, Director of Policy Jason Bedrick and Senior Director of State Relations Michael Chartier break down the legislative movement of private educational choice bills in the states in May and look forward to what’s to come in June. Learn more on our website at www.edchoice.org
Jun 12, 2018•7 min
In today’s EdChoice Chat, Drew Catt talks with Dr. Greg Forster, an EdChoice Friedman Fellow, about why he joined the school choice movement, what challenges he sees for the future of the movement and more. To learn more about school choice, visit www.edchoice.org.
Jun 05, 2018•36 min
In our latest episode of our Cool Schools podcast, Mike McShane talks with Drew Schantz, the founder and executive director of the soon-to-be Venture School. This charter high school in Detroit will use project-based learning principles to teach high schoolers to think like entrepreneurs. Mike and Drew talk about the research and development process for the school, how they’re testing their ideas, the challenges of starting up a high school and more. For more information on school choice, visit ...
May 29, 2018•28 min
In this episode of EdChoice Chats, our Director of State Research and Special Projects Drew Catt discusses our newest research with the author and EdChoice’s Director of National Research Mike McShane. The new report is called "Rethinking Regulation," and in it, McShane posits a four-step solution to optimizing how we regulate schools and education providers in K–12 education. The goal is to free up our public schools of excessive red tape that hinders their work educating kids and to protect no...
May 23, 2018•17 min
In this episode of The Monthly Debrief, the EdChoice state programs team talks about legislation and policy updates that happened in the states in April and what we can expect through the end of May. If you want to stay updated on this series, be sure to subscribe to our podcast. For more school choice information, visit www.edchoice.org. For realtime tweets on legislative developments related to school choice, follow us on Twitter @EdChoice.
May 15, 2018•18 min
In today’s Cool Schools edition of EdChoice Chats, Mike McShane interviews Kari Beckman. Fifteen years ago, she began homeschooling her own kids but felt like something was missing. So, she founded Regina Caeli Academies, which support parents’ homeschooling efforts with two in-classroom days of classical education. To learn more about educational choice, visit www.edchoice.org.
May 01, 2018•30 min
In today’s Cool Schools episode of EdChoice Chats, our Director of National Research Mike McShane talks with Pastor Wade Moore, the founder of Urban Prep. Pastor Moore describes how he started the school and how it’s overcome many challenges in its first four years of operating. To learn more about educational choice, visit www.edchoice.org.
Apr 24, 2018•27 min
This episode of EdChoice Chats is our monthly state team debrief. In it, Senior Director of State Relations Michael Chartier talks with Policy Director Jason Bedrick about what’s going on in their states. Then they introduce a surprise new guest. To learn more about educational choice, visit www.edchoice.org.
Apr 17, 2018•8 min
In today’s Cool Schools episode of EdChoice Chats, Mike McShane chats with Stephanie Saroki de Garcia, co-founder of Seton Education Partners. Her job is to fill in gaps for Catholic schools across several cities by helping them improve school culture and implement successful blended learning programs. Seton also runs several secular charter schools with optional faith-based programming. To learn more about EdChoice, visit www.edchoice.org.
Apr 10, 2018•29 min
In today’s episode of EdChoice Chats, Vice President of Communications Jennifer Wagner interviews Vice President of Legal Affairs Leslie Hiner about Montana’s Espinoza v. Department of Revenue case, which involves the state’s tax-credit scholarship program. Leslie talks about why this case is so important and what it could mean for school choice programs around the country. To learn more about school choice, visit www.edchoice.org.
Apr 03, 2018•12 min
In today’s episode of EdChoice Chats, we continue our Cool Schools series with an interview with Acton Academies Co-Founder Jeff Sandefer. He talks about how his family started Acton Academies and what their innovative model of education looks like in the classroom. To learn more about educational choice, visit www.edchoice.org.
Mar 27, 2018•28 min
In today’s EdChoice Chat, our Director of State Research and Policy Analysis Drew Catt talks with two researchers from the Center on Reinventing Public Education, Georgia Heyward and Christine Campbell. They talk about their new report, Stepping Up: How Are American Cities Delivering on the Promise of Public School Choice. To read the report, visit https://www.crpe.org/publications/stepping-up-american-cities-public-school-choice. To learn more about EdChoice, visit www.edchoice.org.
Mar 20, 2018•40 min
This episode of EdChoice Chats is our monthly state update for February. Get the insider’s scoop on what’s happening with school choice legislation in states across the nation, and get a look into how legislatures work. Learn more at www.edchoice.org.
Mar 16, 2018•22 min
In today’s episode of EdChoice Chats, Director of National Research Mike McShane features another “Cool School,” Open Sky Education. He talks with Executive Chair and CEO Andrew Neumann about the network’s model, which runs both charter and private schools, as well as providing childcare and after school character education programs to thousands of kids across the country. To learn more, visit www.edchoice.org.
Mar 13, 2018•26 min
In today’s episode, EdChoice’s President and CEO Robert Enlow moderates a conversation with two of our team’s long-time coalition builders, Vice President of Training and Outreach Keri Hunter and Senior Director of State Relations Michael Chartier. The three talk about their past experiences in coalition building and which states have strong school choice coalitions today. To learn more, visit our website at www.edchoice.org.
Mar 06, 2018•17 min
In this episode of EdChoice Chats, Shaunette Parker, executive director of My South Carolina Education, joins us on the show to talk about a new private school survey report with one of the report’s co-authors, EdChoice Director of State Research and Policy Analysis Drew Catt. They delve into common arguments for and against school choice locally, concerns parents and private school leaders have about choice programs and, of course, what the data say about it all. To download this brief, visit w...
Feb 28, 2018•11 min
In today’s EdChoice Chat, we continue our “Cool Schools” series with a conversation with Kathleen Porter-Magee. She heads the Partnership for Inner-City Education, which operates six Catholic schools in New York City. Katherine tells our Director of National Research Mike McShane about the Partnership’s community roots and how they’re helping century-old Catholic schools innovate. To learn more about educational choice, visit www.edchoice.org.
Feb 27, 2018•27 min
Do you want a behind-the-scenes look at the legislation updates we feature in our monthly state brief blog post? You’ll find that in today’s EdChoice Chat. In this episode, Michael Chartier talks with Jason Bedrick about the details of educational choice legislation in several states. To learn more about educational choice, visit www.edchoice.org.
Feb 22, 2018•15 min
In today’s episode of EdChoice Chats, Director of State Research and Policy Analysis Drew Catt chats with Research Assistant Mike Shaw about their experience at the International School Choice and Reform Conference. They talk about who was there, forthcoming research they got to preview and panels they watched or participated in. To learn more, visit www.edchoice.org.
Feb 20, 2018•20 min
