Jason Bedrick
Washington Examiner
Arizona, United States
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Florida’s education choice opportunity
Florida long has been a leading state for education freedom and choice. It was no surprise when Florida ranked first in the nation last year in the Heritage Foundation’s inaugural Education Freedom Report Card. → Read More
State Legislative Push for School Choice Gains Momentum Nationwide
States are advancing bills to empower families to choose the school choices that align with their values and work best for their kids. → Read More
Here's How the Government is Funding Antisemitism With Your Tax Dollars
There’s an epidemic of antisemitism coming from leftists in higher education and antisemitic organizations the government is funding. → Read More
Lawmakers, let parents have a say in their children’s life-changing decisions
Education bureaucrats are “socially affirming” children who are confused about their sex — often without their parents’ knowledge. Parents are furious, and rightfully so. But lawmakers have a simple solution that reconnects the act of “affirming” a child with the idea that parents are a child’s primary caregivers. → Read More
Iowa and Utah lead states on school choice progress in the new year
As America celebrates National School Choice Week, two states—Iowa and Utah—have made the first moves this year to empower families with a greater say in how their children are educated. Additionally, the evidence from states with robust school choice policies is debunking opponents’ charges that choice harms rural students and homeschoolers. → Read More
School Choice Opponents Concede Defeat Days After Declaring Victory
School choice opponents in Arizona just unsuccessfully tried to block the state’s school choice expansion to all Arizona children. → Read More
Efforts to block Arizona's school choice expansion are failing
The effort to block a massive expansion of education choice in Arizona appears to be running out of steam. → Read More
If teachers' unions truly want racial integration, they should support school choice
Choice programs are improving racial integration and benefit disadvantaged minorities the most. → Read More
School choice fans need to remember: Education is about far more than test scores
The latest voucher studies should be encouraging to advocates of educational choice, but we should be careful not to take the wrong lessons... → Read More
Regulating School Choice: The Debate Continues
In defense of a free market in education. → Read More
Public Schools
The reason public schools don’t improve is not a lack of funds. State and local governments have continually increased spending for K–12 education. Rather than throw even more money at the problem, states should institute school choice on a broad scale, moving toward a competitive education market. The only way to transform the system is to break up the long-standing government monopoly and use… → Read More
How Teachers Can Earn Millions
How the market improves the lot of both students and teachers. → Read More
The Educational Freedom Legacy of Andrew Coulson
On February 7, Senior Fellow in Education Policy Andrew Coulson passed away at the age of 48, after a fifteen month battle with brain cancer. Thankfully, his ideas remain, and they will always illuminate the pathway forward. → Read More
What School Choice Supporters Can Learn from the Conservative Response to Trump
Ideas have consequences. If we want to get the policy right, we must elect policymakers who understand the principles. → Read More
National School Choice Week Roundup
Numerous states are considering educational choice legislation this year. → Read More
Cruz Introduces Education Savings Accounts Legislation
Congress has a rare opportunity to advance a robust educational choice option that is both constitutionally appropriate and would make a real difference in the lives of its young citizens. → Read More
Taking (Tax) Credit for Education
Tax-credit education saving accounts combine the best aspects of existing ESA policies with the best aspects of scholarship tax credit policies. → Read More
Taking Credit for Education: How to Fund Education Savings Accounts through Tax Credits
Every child deserves the chance at a great education and the American dream. Unfortunately, decades of student achievement data reveal that the increasingly costly U.S. district school system does not provide an excellent education for all students. State lawmakers around the country are now seeking ways to enhance the ability of families to choose among not only schools, but online classes,… → Read More
Taking Credit for Education: How to Fund Education Savings Accounts through Tax Credits
Every child deserves the chance at a great education and the American dream. Unfortunately, decades of student achievement data reveal that the increasingly costly U.S. district school system does not provide an excellent education for all students. State lawmakers around the country are now seeking ways to enhance the ability of families to choose among not only schools, but online classes,… → Read More
Teachers v. the Union
A win for the plaintiffs in Friedrichs would be a victory for teachers and their students. → Read More