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Nov 13, 2024 | 
aei.org | Nat Malkus |Preston Cooper |Frederick M. Hess |Derrell Bradford
What will last Tuesday’s elections mean for education? Will President Trump actually eliminate the Department of Education? What does the future of school choice look like? Will Democrats and Republicans team up on workforce issues? And who will be the next secretary of education? On this episode of The Report Card, Nat Malkus discusses these questions and more with Derrell Bradford, Preston Cooper, Ginny Gentles, Heather Harding, and Rick Hess.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
hoover.org | Michael Petrilli |Derrell Bradford
MyHoover delivers a personalized experience at Hoover.org. In a few easy steps, create an account and receive the most recent analysis from Hoover fellows tailored to your specific policy interests. Watch this video for an overview of MyHoover. Create Account
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
educationnext.org | Derrell Bradford |Michael Petrilli
For decades, most school choice advocates promoted vouchers as a means-tested program for families that would not otherwise be able to afford private schools. Targeted vouchers were deemed equitable, politically prudent, and fiscally responsible. Since 2020, however, a new wave of advocacy has prioritized the creation of universal programs that serve nearly all families irrespective of their household income—and such initiatives have been adopted in 11 states to date.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
the74million.org | Derrell Bradford |Tim DeRoche
Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court case Milliken v. Bradley, which is regarded by many academics and observers as one of the most consequential judicial decisions in our nation’s history.
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
educationnext.org | Derrell Bradford |Ira Stoll |Stephanie McCoy
My kids returned to school in late November for the first time since Halloween. For over three weeks, public school students of Portland, Oregon, were out of school due to an educator strike. During that period, our children missed 11 days of instruction. Portland Public Schools (PPS) is one of the in the Pacific Northwest, with over 49,000 students in 81 schools.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
iwf.org | Natalie Cassase |Ginny Gentles |Derrell Bradford
On this episode of Students Over Systems, host Ginny Gentles talks with Derrell Bradford, president of 50CAN, about school choice and teachers unions. Derrell views prolonged school closures in highly unionized areas as “one of the great domestic policy failures of our lifetimes” and believes allowing funding to follow children reduces unions’ outsized power to disrupt the lives of students and parents.
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
educationnext.org | Jal Mehta |Jeremy Chiappetta |Derrell Bradford |Jed Wallace
Driving across tracts of new-home development in El Paso, Texas, one can’t miss the signs of charter-school momentum. New charter-school facility projects dot the landscape. Harmony Public Schools, which now operates 62 schools serving more than 40,000 students in Texas, is bullish on the area. Fatih Ay, CEO at Harmony, explains: “All five of Harmony’s current campuses in El Paso are excelling academically, and we have far more parents seeking our services than we can accommodate.
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Jul 16, 2023 | 
50can.org | Derrell Bradford
It is week 172 of our new reality and we are taking stock of what the latest data tells us about the state of learning in America. “I really seem to have guessed wrong about this,” writes long-term blogger and commentator Kevin Drum in a new piece examining the latest NWEA student achievement data.
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Jun 11, 2023 | 
50can.org | Derrell Bradford
Demand emergency federal funds are spent on immediate student needsOne of the five promises we’ve made to American families is that they have a right to know –line by line and dollar by dollar–how money is being spent on their children. That should include the $190 billion of federal pandemic aid to schools but for far too long families have been kept in the dark.
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Apr 16, 2023 | 
50can.org | Derrell Bradford
Take on the big questions about school choice and school financeLast week Jess Gartner, the founder of K-12 finance tech company Allovue, hosted a conversation about the evolving role of school choice in K-12 finance. “I’ve invited several colleagues who are choice proponents to engage in a good old-fashioned discourse on this topic,” Jess writes in her introduction to the essay series.
