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Pacific Legal Foundation Celebrates #Back2SchoolChoice week!

August 16, 2013 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

As students — and their parents — prepare for the upcoming school year, now is a great time to reflect on education policy and the importance of school choice.  That’s why next week — August 19-23 — attorneys with PLF’s “K-12 Education Reform Project” will highlight some of their important work defen ...

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Welcome to #Back2SchoolChoice Week!

August 19, 2013 | By JOSHUA THOMPSON

With students around the country returning to school, PLF thought it would be a good time to remind everybody of the benefits of school choice.  To that end, all this week we will be celebrating Back to School Choice Week. School choice can mean many things, but broadly speaking, it is the idea that parents … ...

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#Back2School Choice Week continues : Atlanta charter schools

August 20, 2013 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

As Pacific Legal Foundation celebrates school choice this week, we will highlight cases from our K-12 Education Project. One such case is Atlanta Independent School System a.k.a. Atlanta Public Schools et al., v. Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School, Inc., et al.  Atlanta Public Schools (APS) decided to tackle its massive — several hundred mi ...

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#Back2SchoolChoice — What are tax credits?

August 21, 2013 | By JOSHUA THOMPSON

When most people hear about school choice, they typically think about vouchers.  Vouchers are basically a check that parents receive from the state that they can use to send their children to private schools.  The check, or “voucher,” can be used by parents to send their children to either sectarian or secular schools.  The anti-cho ...

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#Back2SchoolChoice — Protecting charter schools in California

August 23, 2013 | By JOSHUA THOMPSON

Thanks for joining us this week for Back to School Choice Week.  All week we discussed PLF cases, important ideas in school choice, and explained why supporting choice in education is vitally important for American students.  We discussed a lot of these issues in this school choice podcast as well. In this final installment, I wanted to … ...

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New Hampshire Supreme Court accepts tax credit case

August 23, 2013 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Today is the final day of #Back2SchoolChoice Week and we have good news!  Those who have followed our blog throughout the week may recall that Joshua Thompson dedicated a post to tax credit scholarship programs.  He highlighted the Duncan v. New Hampshire tax credit case, in which Pacific Legal Foundation filed an amicus brief.  The lower R ...

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Back to School Choice Week 2014

August 18, 2014 | By JOSHUA THOMPSON

For the second consecutive year, PLF is celebrating Back to School Choice Week.  All this week on the Liberty Blog we will be discussing cases that PLF is working on that give parents and students a choice in where and how their child is educated.  School choice has many forms including charter schools, vouchers, and education … ...

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School choice empowers parents

August 18, 2014 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

As kids across America head back to school it seems like the perfect time for Pacific Legal Foundation to celebrate Back to School Choice Week. The school choice movement has been under way for decades, and some states have made tremendous progress.  But we still have much to do, as nothing is more important for a parent … ...

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School choice saves money

August 19, 2014 | By JONATHAN WOOD

Government spends $632 billion a year on public schools. That’s almost 20% of all government spending. Although most of the focus of Back to School Choice Week is, rightly, on the benefits to students, school choice also promises to bring that number down substantially. As PLF recently explained in a brief to the Alabama Supreme … ...