Obama's shifting views on school vouchers won't score points with anyone other than the NEA and AFT. His strategy aims to woo the teachers unions as 2012 approaches.

Transforming school choice into the kind of competition that raises standards requires attaching consequences to behavior.

Contempt for Middle America will not expand educational opportunities.

Congress is currently tackling the issue of special education as it reauthorizes the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. For insight during the reauthorization process, all parties are taking a look at Florida’s McKay Scholarship Program for Students with Disabilities, which provides vouchers for special-education students. The McKay program...

The alternative to vouchers--direct grants to religious institutions--is harder to impose constitutionally without compromising a church's spiritual message.

Romney’s defenders argue that he was taken out of context when he declared, “I’m not concerned about the very poor,” pointing out that he also said, “We have a safety net [to help the very poor]. If it needs repair, I’ll fix it.” If anything, the context is more disturbing than the initial gaffe. To understand why, Romney needs to listen to the words of Ronald Reagan.

Programs in Milwaukee and New York City give low-income parents vouchers to pay for tuition at the school they choose for their children.

Communities around the nation interested in school choice received a flashing green light when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a Milwaukee case, thereby finessing the acrimonious church-state issue, at least for now.