school choice
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Taylor Threatens MoCo’s Charter School for Black and Brown Students
Read more: Taylor Threatens MoCo’s Charter School for Black and Brown StudentsIn 2003, Vladimir Putin ordered the arrest of Russia’s wealthiest citizen Mikhail Khodorkovsky. During the preceding decade, the oligarch had challenged Putin’s increasingly centralized authority. Those challenges included funding opposition political parties. The charges against Khodorkovsky included fraud, tax evasion, and embezzlement. There is strong evidence that these charges were synthetic. After his conviction, Khodorkovsky’s…
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Tax Credits for Your Child’s Private School Education
Read more: Tax Credits for Your Child’s Private School EducationTLDR: Send a message to Wes Moore expressing support for the ECCA. The recent One Big Beautiful Bill Act has a few provisions that are transformative (some less so), and one of them is the associated Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA). This act provides a tax credit for private school tuition. Nothing in the…
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Community Profile: A Charter School Comes to Montgomery County—Interview with LaChaundra Graham
Read more: Community Profile: A Charter School Comes to Montgomery County—Interview with LaChaundra GrahamThe MECCA Business Learning Institute (MBLI) is a public charter school opening in Germantown, Fall 2025. The school’s founder (and president/CEO of the parent organization MBEF College & Career Academies, Inc.) LaChaundra Graham effuses the energy, passion, knowledge, and determination required to provide the county’s school children with a solid middle-school experience. She took a…
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Alternatives to the MCPS Model of Educational Resource Allocation
Read more: Alternatives to the MCPS Model of Educational Resource AllocationGiven the results of last month’s Board of Education primaries, in which incumbents or union endorsees (and also Brenda Diaz!) won the top spots, some in the opposition have come to the conclusion that getting the best education for our students is no longer possible through MCPS. People are already talking about “school choice” or…
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Reason #6 for School Vouchers—Predators and Their Victims
Read more: Reason #6 for School Vouchers—Predators and Their Victims(Lead image from the Washington Post, August 11, 2023.) A high-school math teacher was, by all accounts, a very good teacher, but his social skills were affected by a streak of anger. During one class a student misbehaved. The teacher reacted far out of proportion to the offense; he pushed the student against a wall.…