Edchoice Chats

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 enact a pilot school voucher program in D.C. Listen to them chat about what the show got right and wrong about school choice. Learn more about school choice across America at www.edchoice.org. Don't forget to subscribe for more in this series! Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @edchoice Visit us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/edchoice

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.

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

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 choice, visit www.edchoice.org.

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

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.

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 www.edchoice.org.

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 non-public schooling providers from that same excessive red tape. Listen to learn more. To download the full report, visit our website at www.edchoice.org.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.