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Author: Daniel Himebaugh Last week, a Washington State judge ruled that Washington violated its constitution by failing to appropriate enough money to fund the state's public education system.  The court ordered the state to take two steps: (1) determine how much it will cost to provide a basic program of education, and (2) provide " ...

This morning, PLF filed this letter brief asking the California Supreme Court to review the court of appeal’s decision in California Charter Schools Association v. Los Angeles Unified School District.  The case has to do with how charter schools are supposed to be treated when school districts are allocating facilities.  In California, cha ...

We learned some great news this afternoon as the California Supreme Court agreed to hear California Charter School Association v. LASUD.  You can read all about the case — and PLF’s brief to the Supreme Court — here.  This will be the first time that the California Supreme Court has interpreted Proposition 39, California ...

An editorial in Saturday’s Washington Post demonstrates that the denial of charter school equity is a nationwide problem.  The article reports that, on average, charter schools receive $13,000 less per pupil than their system run competitors.  For example, in D.C., where charter schools are legally entitled to be treated on an equal footing ...

Like many public school systems, Atlanta Public Schools (APS) has a massive unfunded pension liability problem.  APS tried to tackle that obligation by transferring $40 million dollars from its local revenue and to the pension liability.  But APS’s local revenue is the primary source of several charter schools’ funding under a clearly ...

Parents and students throughout the country do not want to be forced into failing government-run schools.  Yet all-too-often, the public school monopoly prevents parents from exercising choice in where their child is educated.  This is why it comes as sadly no surprise that nearly 1,000,000 students are on waiting lists in the United States t ...

Obamacare to Appellate Court The D.C. District Court granted the government’s motion to dismiss our challenge to Obamacare and we have now appealed to the D.C. Court of Appeals.  Our bottom line in Sissel v. United States Department of Health and Human Services is that because the Affordable Care Act contains a new tax, and … ...

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 … ...

We often get asked here at PLF why there isn’t school choice in California.  The answer I usually give is that Californians do have some choices in education.  Californians, of course, have one of the most robust charter school laws in the country.  Further, California law permits transfers from one public school district to another scho ...