June 22, 2021
Laura McKenna is an education writer based in New Jersey. You can find her here (www.lauramckenna.com). This article was originally published at Laura McKenna’s Substack newsletter. […]
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March 30, 2021
By Contributor at March 30, 2021
Laura McKenna is a New Jersey parent of two teenage boys, one currently studying at Rutgers University and the other a high school student with […]
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November 19, 2020
By Staff Writer at November 19, 2020
Martin F. Lueken of EdChoice (with an assist from @stateaidguy) has a new paper out called “Fiscal Analysis of an Education Savings Account Program in […]
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November 16, 2020
By Laura Waters at November 16, 2020
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When I first started this blog twelve years ago as a neophyte in the education reform world, one of the first like-minded people I met […]
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October 29, 2020
By Laura Waters at October 29, 2020
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This is the third in a series on my changing views of publicly-funded vouchers to parochial and private schools. The first one is here and […]
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October 7, 2020
By Laura Waters at October 7, 2020
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Recently I wrote that a residency hearing with two children, Kayla and Tasha, represented to me our deeply-embedded structural inequities in education that decades of […]
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