Jeanne Allen

Washington, D.C., United States

Contributor at Forbes

OG Education Choice Advocate Leading the Age of Disruption. Founder @edreform @inPiazza_Pod @YassPrize. First-gen 🇺🇸🇮🇹. Nonna.

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100 Years of Parent Power

3 weeks ago | forza.edreform.com | Jeanne Allen

Happy June! It’s not only the month of grand finales and goodbyes to the structures and activities most associated with the “school year,” but it’s the 100th Anniversary of the recognition by the U.S. Supreme Court of the right of parents, not the state, to control the education of their youth. Pierce v.
Forza...for Education

2 months ago | open.substack.com | Jeanne Allen

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Pandemic-Era Policies Caused Dramatic Education Decline

2 months ago | jeanneallen.medium.com | Jeanne Allen

Jeanne Allen·Follow7 min read·--Mandating school closures for nearly 2 years cost many of the nation’s students their educational future. CREATIVE COMMONSStudents In Transformational Learning Environments Were The ExceptionThe results of the Nation’s Report Card for nine-year-olds in reading and mathematics are deeply troubling.
Lawsuits To Block Federal Education Department Reductions Are ‘Trumped’ By Evidence

Mar 20, 2025 | forbes.com | Jeanne Allen

For decades, advocates have waged lawsuits on behalf of students’ rights to a fair and successful education. These efforts to seek relief for students from failed education, however are continually rebuffed as courts argue that state constitutions do not spell out a student’s right to a quality education. Instead, students are afforded only the right to an “adequate,” “commensurate,” or “thorough and efficient” education, as they are written about in most state constitutions.
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Feb 12, 2025 | open.substack.com | Jeanne Allen

I’ve been reading and writing about education laws for most of my career. It wasn’t by choice - I just learned early on that unless I knew what a bill was saying and how the words shaped the actual intent of the proposal in practice, I wouldn’t be effective. Then again, I didn’t have anybody else to do it. Necessity being the mother of invention and all, I became an expert at assessing legislative impact before the ink was dry.
Center For Education Reform

Jan 28, 2025 | edreform.com | Jeanne Allen |Heather Kays

The health of the nation’s schools remains in decline, as reading proficiency plummeted and mathematics scores saw modest gains, largely owing to the impact of more advantaged students whose families often supplement their education, according to data from the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress, released early this morning. Only 31 percent of students in 4th grade and 30 percent of students in 8th grade are reading proficiently, a 2 percent and 1 percent drop respectively from 2022.
JEANNE ALLEN: Here’s What Linda McMahon Should Do On Day One

Dec 17, 2024 | dailycaller.com | Jeanne Allen

By every measure, Linda McMahon is a shrewd, bold and intelligent woman with a history of success in an industry dominated by men, and, one might argue, rough men. She also has developed a pedigree in politics.
So You Want To Make Education Great Again? 3 Executive Orders For Trump On Day 1

Nov 19, 2024 | forbes.com | Jeanne Allen

The Founding Fathers never envisioned that Executive Orders would be a major policymaking tool, circumventing legislative and executive deliberations, political stalemates, and partisanship. But recent history has deemed them essential levers if there is to be urgent action on the most important matters of the day.
So You Want To Abolish The Department Of Education? Here’s What You Need To Know.

Nov 12, 2024 | forbes.com | Jeanne Allen

The demand for abolishing the US Department of Education is growing. The sentiment has always lurked in the background, among conservatives and many Republicans who believe, somewhat rightly (more on that later), that the federal government should not have anything to do with education. Remember the 10th Amendment?
Why Aren't 2024 Candidates Talking About America's Education Deficit? | Opinion

Sep 4, 2024 | newsweek.com | Jeanne Allen

Political insiders say presidential campaigns don't truly begin until Labor Day—poll results crystallize, the ranks of undecided voters dwindle, the map settles. It is not without irony that these days of decisiveness coincide with the start of a new school year, when parents are reminded daily about the stakes of political decisionmaking. Parents recognize that their children are returning to school amid a crisis that is oddly absent from the campaign-trail speeches.

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