Articles By Author Karla Dial
Articles by Karla Dial
03/01/2010 12:00 AM
When the Oklahoma Legislature convened on February 1, a bill creating a voucher program for autistic and other special-needs students was on the agenda.The ...(read more)
02/09/2010 12:00 AM
When the Oklahoma Legislature convened on February 1, a bill creating a voucher program for autistic and other special-needs students was on the agenda.The ...(read more)
02/01/2010 12:00 AM
The February issue of School Reform News reports on California’s efforts to change its state education system so as to quality for federal Race to ...(read more)
12/15/2009 12:00 AM
I thank the Daily Mail for the fair and balanced Nov. 27 article on the charter school proposals the Legislature will likely be hearing in January.When ...(read more)
11/21/2009 12:00 AM
In the midst of the investigation over Arizona’s individual tax credit program, the Arizona Supreme Court on October 27 ended a long-standing legal ...(read more)
10/27/2009 12:00 AM
Special-needs students who attend private, religious schools in Washington state will have an easier time getting their supplemental educational services, ...(read more)
10/18/2009 12:00 AM
A scholarship-granting organization that helps children attend the school of their family’s choice across New Mexico celebrated its 10th anniversary ...(read more)
09/01/2009 12:00 AM
A documentary film detailing corruption in New Jersey’s schools and showing the need for school choice in the state is impressing critics at film ...(read more)
04/14/2009 12:00 AM
In a marketplace, cash follows the consumer. Institutions that provide value to consumers flourish, and those that do not wither. But that’s not true ...(read more)
03/01/2009 12:00 AM
Mississippi—home to exactly one charter school and one of the nation’s most restrictive charter school laws—may soon expand its stable ...(read more)
02/01/2009 12:00 AM
A bill creating a five-year tax credit scholarship program to help students in several of New Jersey’s worst public school districts has brought parents ...(read more)
11/01/2008 12:00 AM
The National Committee for the Furtherance of Jewish Education has made a public appeal for all members of the Jewish community to support federal school ...(read more)
07/01/2008 12:00 AM
A study released June 26 by the National Council on Teacher Quality shows elementary school teachers are not well prepared by education schools to teach ...(read more)
05/02/2008 12:00 AM
(Chicago, IL -- May 2, 2008) Free-market economics has taught us competition improves products--regardless of what that product is. In a study by the Manhattan ...(read more)
05/01/2008 12:00 AM
Missouri has a new route to filling teaching posts that bypasses traditional teachers’ colleges and affords schools more freedom, under a new law signed ...(read more)
03/01/2008 12:00 AM
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard a three-year-old challenge to Arizona's individual tax credit scholarship program in late January, but gave ...(read more)
03/01/2008 12:00 AM
Parents, children, school choice advocates, and some lawmakers in Wisconsin are banding together in an effort to keep a choice option available to the state's ...(read more)
02/01/2008 12:00 AM
Nine health care companies have joined forces to create a consortium urging better security safeguards in electronic health records.
The group--which ...(read more)
01/01/2008 12:00 AM
On November 6, the nation’s first statewide universal voucher program was defeated in Utah by a referendum vote. Since then, major newspapers and magazines ...(read more)
01/01/2008 12:00 AM
Despite the defeats in referenda, school choice advocates point to the movement’s enduring popularity with voters. Over the past five years, more school ...(read more)
01/01/2008 12:00 AM
The Faith First Educational Assistance Corporation honored Wisconsin state Rep. Annette Polly Williams (D-Milwaukee) at its fifth annual Anniversary Banquet ...(read more)
12/01/2007 12:00 AM
On October 4, four states filed suit in a New York federal court against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, saying new guidelines it issued ...(read more)
12/01/2007 12:00 AM
A seven-month investigation by The Associated Press revealed a disturbing amount of sexual misconduct by schoolteachers--usually toward students--in American ...(read more)
12/01/2007 12:00 AM
While the state of New Jersey decided in October to return some control of schools to the Newark School District, one expert says the move doesn't necessarily ...(read more)
12/01/2007 12:00 AM
A study by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and national Council on Teacher Quality concludes alternative teacher certification programs are proving to be ...(read more)
