Funding Education Opportunity Newsletters
Funding Education Opportunity is a monthly newsletter curated by education policy analyst Jude Schwalbach which looks at the intersection of school finance and school choice to explore how education funding policy impacts students’ success.
Each month the Funding Education Opportunity newsletter keeps you up to date on K-12 education reforms making headlines across the country and provides an original analysis of school data, policy debates, and much more.
Previous issues of this newsletter are below and Reason Foundation's education research is here.
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Funding Education Opportunity: How the 2024 elections affected the K-12 reform landscape
Plus: Despite school choice ballot measures failing in three states, state policymakers prepare to advance school choice proposals in Texas and Tennessee.
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Funding Education Opportunity: Grading states’ K-12 open enrollment laws
Plus: November ballot initiatives in five states and more.
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Funding Education Opportunity: Student loan forgiveness is not the answer to strengthening public education
Plus: Education legislation news North Carolina, and more.
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Funding Education Opportunity: Why open enrollment transparency matters
Plus: Education legislation news from Texas, Florida, Arkansas and more.
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Funding Education Opportunity: Ghost students strip taxpayers’ pocketbooks bare
Plus: Education legislation news Pennsylvania, and more.
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Funding Education Opportunity: Many school districts need to reduce staff, consolidate
Plus: Education spending data from all states, the latest school choice legislation, and more.
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Funding Education Opportunity: Public school boundaries still suffer from the effects of educational redlining
Plus: Pennsylvania private school scholarship proposal, Tennessee private school choice bill dies, and more.
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Funding Education Opportunity: To combat learning loss, schools need to use time more wisely
Plus: School choice legislation news from Georgia, Louisiana, Nebraska, and more.
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Funding Education Opportunity: School choice laws advance in five more states
Plus: Lawsuits in multiple states, Republican primary elections likely impact on school choice in Texas, and more.
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Funding Education Opportunity: Examining important trends in education spending, outcomes and staffing
Plus: Education legislation news in New Hampshire, Alabama, and Missouri, and more.
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Funding Education Opportunity: The best open enrollment proposals of 2024 and the new K-12 School Choice Calculator
Plus: Florida may expand eligibility for private school choice programs, school choice legislative updates from several states, and more.
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Funding Education Opportunity: Preparing for the 2024 legislative sessions, news from Tennessee, Wyoming, and Missouri, and more
Plus: Oklahoma's private school tax credit in high demand, Wisconsin Supreme Court rejects lawsuit claiming state's voucher program was unconstitutional, and more.
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Funding Education Opportunity: Homeschooling numbers still exceed pre-pandemic figures, Texas and Florida’s special legislative sessions on education, and more
Plus: Arkansas' annual report on Education Freedom Accounts, Kentucky constitutional amendment to legalize school choice policies, and more.
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Funding Education Opportunity: Examining every state’s open enrollment laws, Texas’ special legislative session on education, and more
Plus: Arizona policymakers spar over scholarship program, lawsuit over Wisconsin voucher program, and more.
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Funding Education Opportunity: Fiscal cliff for federal funds, NYC council members propose school choice and more
Plus: Wisconsin governor's veto, lawsuit against Ohio's EdChoice Scholarships, constitutionality of Montana charter schools, and more.
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Funding Education Opportunity: Seeking better schools lands parents in jail, school choice growth, and more
Plus: Oklahoma tax credits for private and homeschooled students, Alabama's push for education savings accounts, and more.
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Funding Education Opportunity: COVID-induced learning loss continues to take toll on students, Ohio school choice victory, and more
Plus: Florida's school choice applications, more ESA applications than projected in Iowa, and more.
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Funding Education Opportunity: Unconventional education partnerships, states’ school choice legislation, and more
Plus: Oklahoma establishes country's first religious charter school, applications for Iowa's universal ESAs exceed projections, and more.
