Joshua Cowen

Jan 10, 2025 | nepc.colorado.edu | YearBy Year |Joshua Cowen

Hey Friends,The team at Public Funds Public Schools recently hosted a webinar on education issues in the upcoming Trump Administration. Specific topics were school vouchers in general, a renewed voucher push in places like Tennessee and Texas, and the plan to create a federal voucher scheme through the tax code. That federal plan, a version of which has been proposed by GOP legislators in the past several congresses, would be modeled on existing state voucher tax credit schemes.

Dec 3, 2024 | nepc.colorado.edu | YearBy Year |Joshua Cowen

Hi again from the road!On October 8, I had the honor of addressing a gathering of journalists at the third annual Democracy Summit at Howard University’s Center for Journalism and Democracy. The Center was founded by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the 1619 Project. This year’s summit theme was understanding oligarchy. And my subject, not surprisingly, was private school vouchers.

Nov 14, 2024 | nepc.colorado.edu | YearBy Year |Joshua Cowen

Hello from the road!I’m writing this edition of The Private Eye while traveling between bookstore visits at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C., Changing Hands near Phoenix, and Princeton University. I appreciate all the well-wishes and enthusiasm for my book, The Privateers,so far!For this edition, I want to draw special attention to the ways the private school voucher lobby makes its case and, especially, goes on the offensive against voucher critics.

Nov 11, 2024 | truthout.org | Joshua Cowen

On Tuesday hundreds of thousands of voters supported Donald Trump while opposing ballot initiatives backed in their states by right-wing billionaires. Trump’s clear victory at the presidential level did not translate into red state victories for a key education policy priority: school vouchers. Vouchers are public funds for private school tuition, whose origins date back to the wake of Brown v.

Oct 15, 2024 | nepc.colorado.edu | Kevin Lawrence |Christopher Saldana |Joshua Cowen |Kevin Henry

Share Why is Facebook not here? Why is Twitter not here? Share on LinkedIn Share on Google Plus Permalink Email October 15, 2024 | Season: 5 | Episode: 2 University of Wisconsin‑Madison Assistant Professor Christopher Saldaña interviews Josh Cowen and Kevin Lawrence Henry, Jr. about school choice, and how culture wars issues impact education policy. Transcript Please note: This transcript was automatically generated.