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: Will Trump shutter the U.S. Department of Education?

Plus, North Dakota and South Carolina policymakers look to advance school choice proposals.

By Jude Schwalbach
December 17, 2024
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.

By Jude Schwalbach
November 19, 2024
Funding Education Opportunity: Grading states’ K-12 open enrollment laws

Plus: November ballot initiatives in five states and more.

By Jude Schwalbach
October 29, 2024
Funding Education Opportunity: Student loan forgiveness is not the answer to strengthening public education

Plus: Education legislation news North Carolina, and more.

By Jude Schwalbach
September 17, 2024
Funding Education Opportunity: Why open enrollment transparency matters

Plus: Education legislation news from Texas, Florida, Arkansas and more.

By Jude Schwalbach
August 20, 2024
Funding Education Opportunity: Ghost students strip taxpayers’ pocketbooks bare

Plus: Education legislation news Pennsylvania, and more.

By Jude Schwalbach
July 23, 2024
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.

By Jude Schwalbach
June 18, 2024
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.

By Jude Schwalbach
May 21, 2024
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.

By Jude Schwalbach
April 23, 2024
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.

By Jude Schwalbach
March 19, 2024
Funding Education Opportunity: Examining important trends in education spending, outcomes and staffing

Plus: Education legislation news in New Hampshire, Alabama, and Missouri, and more.

By Jude Schwalbach
February 29, 2024
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.

By Jude Schwalbach
January 23, 2024
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.

By Jude Schwalbach
December 18, 2023
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.

By Jude Schwalbach
November 21, 2023
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.

By Jude Schwalbach
October 26, 2023
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.

By Jude Schwalbach
September 20, 2023
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.

By Jude Schwalbach
August 22, 2023
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.

By Jude Schwalbach
July 18, 2023