Defending School Choice
Author: Joshua Thompson Over at Redcounty.com, Senator Bob Huff has a great defense of the District of Choice program. He writes: "The District of Choice program infuses free market principles into this system and breaks down the arbitrary school district boundaries by allowing kids to transfer to other schools. The very possibility of ...
Children are forgotten in school choice battle
Author: Joshua Thompson Last week I blogged about the fight between Rowland Unified School District and Walnut Valley Unified School District over the District of Choice Act. The District of Choice Act is one of California's only school choice programs. It gives parents the freedom to choose the sch ...
PLF joins Rowland Heights parents and Sen. Huff in brief for school choice
LOS ANGELES COUNTY, July 14, 2010 — In a legal brief just filed, Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) represents concerned parents living in Rowland Unified School District, and one of the California Legislature’s leading champions of school choice, state Sen. Bob Huff (R-Diamond Bar), in arguing against an unreasonably restrictive interpret ...
PLF files brief in the US Supreme Court on school choice
Author: Joshua Thompson Last week PLF filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court in Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn. This case marks the first time the Supreme Court will rule on an Establishment Clause challenge to a school choice program since its landmark decision in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris. Arizona Christan School i ...
School choice before the Supreme Court
Author: Joshua Thompson In this podcast, produced by the Federalist Society, I discuss the case of Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn. You can read PLF's amicus brief in the case here. This case will have a profound impact the legality of innovative school choice programs throughout the country. In the podcast I ...
Litigating for school choice
Author: Daniel Himebaugh In case you haven’t heard, January 23-29 is National School Choice Week. According to the organizers, this nationwide event is designed to call attention to the need for “a K-12 education system that provides a wide array of options” to parents and students. As I’ve pointed out before, PLF works di ...
Supreme Court decision is an important victory for school choice
Author: Joshua Thompson As initially blogged about on Monday, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn this week. And, upon closer inspection, my initial hesitation to claim a full victory for school choice proponents was not warranted. By narrowing the availability of taxpaye ...
School choice assaults: Indiana, Colorado, Wisconsin
Author: Joshua Thompson Some very interesting developments have been happening on the school choice front recently. Of course, the big victory came back in April when the Supreme Court ruled that school choice programs funded by tax credits are not challengeable by taxpayers under the Establishment Clause. While this was clearly ...
The year of school choice
Author: Joshua Thompson Last week I received a lot of feedback on the on-going school choice lawsuits in Ohio and Colorado. Accordingly, some of you may be interested in this paper recently published by The Heritage Foundation. Head over there to see some interesting facts, statistics, and analysis regarding ?school choice in all ...
School Choice Week: The fighters
In honor of School Choice Week, I will be doing a 5-part blog series on school choice. While PLF is prominent in school choice litigation, I thought I would start this series by pointing out some the leading defenders of school choice around the country. Each of these organizations is doing fantastic work in the school choice … ...