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PLF defends school choice in Alabama

July 28, 2014 | By JONATHAN WOOD

PLF has filed an amicus brief in the Alabama Supreme Court defending the constitutionality of school choice in the Heart of Dixie. The Alabama Accountability Act creates a system of tax credits to help parents transfer their kids from failing public schools to better public or private schools. Should be uncontroversial, right? Wrong. The statute w ...

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Common Core doth protest too much

December 02, 2013 | By ANASTASIA BODEN

A nationalized school curriculum would be bad enough if it were constrained to public schools, but the latest Common Core developments show that the purported “standards” threaten to standardize not just the curriculums of traditional public schools, but charter schools, private schools, and home schooling parents as well. … ...

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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 ...