Charlie Barone

The School Choice Parents Want Is Not the One They're Getting From Vouchers and ESA’s - National Parents Union By Dr. Charles Barone Many voucher and ESA proponents cite polling showing that 60% or more of parents of K-12 students support using public funds to pay for private school tuition. Some cite such sta...

The “school choice” parents are willing to support comes with a robust set of conditions centered on fairness, accessibility, and accountability, conditions that existing voucher and ESA programs fail to meet. nationalparentsunion.org/2025/09/29/t...

Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's former girlfriend, transferred to a prison camp in Texas The federal Bureau of Prisons said Friday that Maxwell had been transferred to a prison camp in Texas, but did not explain the circumstances.

Quid Pro Quo?
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R&D Agenda to Transform High School | Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching American high school education is at a crossroads. While the world accelerates toward an AI-driven economy that demands creativity, critical thinking, and adaptability, our high schools remain trapped...

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‘A lack of political courage’: Why is Chicago avoiding its school enrollment problem? Declining school enrollment has left 30% of Chicago public schools at least half-empty. The city’s failure to address this problem has come at a high cost to the district — and its students.

The “abundance agenda” doesn’t seem to be working out well for Chicago. www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025...

Americans think Trump’s big military parade is not a good use of government funds, poll shows The president said in May the cost would be “peanuts compared to the value of doing it.”

Duh www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

I got really frustrated listening to Democrats disparage charter schools at last week's hearing in the House Education and Workforce Committee. So I wrote a blog. nationalparentsunion.org/2025/05/21/d...

Five Ways High-Performing Schools Use Data to Help Students Succeed Saslow: 53 school leaders agree that data is key in areas ranging from daily instruction and extra help to absenteeism and family engagement.

Five Ways High-Performing Schools Use Data to Help Students Succeed Rianna Saslow @the74.bsky.social www.the74million.org/article/five...

“What Democrats need is a more robust agenda that’s an alternative to Trump...We need somebody that’s willing to speak truth to power, not hedge on the severity of the problems we’re facing for the kids we care about...” www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Totally mystified that R's made such a big deal about passing the budget resolution this week. They actually gave wildly different and conflicting budget-cutting instructions to each chamber, in one bill. Sooner or later, Republicans are going to have to come clean and make tough choices.

You Can’t Rob Title I Funds and Call It Reform - National Parents Union By Keri Rodrigues, President, National Parents Union and Dr. Charles Barone, Senior Director of the Center for Innovation, National Parents Union In the wake of what may be the most reckless education...

Governor Kim Reynolds wants to override the federal Title I formula and allow Iowa to decide for itself how to distribute federal education funds to schools and districts. This is a smash-and-grab. It’s not reform. It’s theft. And we will fight it.

nationalparentsunion.org/2025/03/26/y...

Rethinking School Accountability Waiving federal rules would be a step backward but could create space for state leadership

Rethinking School Accountability: Waiving federal rules would be a step backward but could, with strong advocacy, create space for state leadership. www.educationnext.org/rethinking-s...

Who's gonna tell him?
"We think that when you move it back to...all the states that run so well - there's so many I could name 30 maybe almost 40 - those will be as good as Denmark those will be as good as Norway.." - @realDonaldTrump www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zuvc...

State tests (and a fed requirement for doing so) are so important for families of kids with disabilities.

The Future of Assessment and Accountability | Part 1 | Goodbye Federal Assessment Guardrails? - National Parents Union By Charles Barone, National Parents Union Senior Director of the Center for Innovation Many of us in the education policy world attended the “National Forum on the Future of Assessment and Accountabil...

The Future of Assessment and Accountability | Part 1 | Goodbye Federal Assessment Guardrails? nationalparentsunion.org/2025/02/26/t...

Anyone who cares about NAEP should worry about the abrupt removal of the person most responsible for its technical and operational quality.

Oppose Safety Net Cuts to Fund Billionaire Tax Breaks - Vote Tues 2/25 ⭑ 5 Calls UPDATE (02/21/25): Early on Feb 21st, Senate Republicans passed their own slimmed down budget resolution. The Senate plan does not yet extend the 2017 …

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At Annual Meeting, Battered Presidents Are Subdued in the Face of Trump’s Funding Blitz Leaders at the American Council on Education conference heard calls to stand up for their colleges and contemplated what may come next.

Trump's executive orders hung in the air at ACE's annual meeting this year. "I want to call the orders what they are, not pussyfoot around — these orders are an assault," said ACE's president, Ted Mitchell. chroni.cl/4gMr5B8

"It's almost like we're being subjected to a very elegant gaslighting here." - Senator Maggie Hassan at hearing for Sec of Ed nominee Linda McMahon

#quoteoftheday

NAEP and Choice: Something’s Not Adding Up - National Parents Union By Charles Barone, National Parents Union Senior Director of the Center for Innovation Two significant events occurred on the national education landscape yesterday: the highly anticipated and widely ...

NAEP and Private School Choice: Something is not quite addiing up. nationalparentsunion.org/2025/01/30/n...