by Ty Davison | Apr 18, 2025 | News & Commentary
States with universal or near-universal school choice programs: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming. These are predominately red states, though...
by Ty Davison | Apr 12, 2025 | News & Commentary
In and around Portland, teachers are missing more school than ever. Their bosses don’t want to talk about it – oregonlive.com: For a 2025 report on teacher morale, national education news outlet Education Week surveyed what it says was a representative sample of...
by Ty Davison | Apr 10, 2025 | News & Commentary
Mississippi(!) has the best demographic-adjusted NAEP (4th & 8th grade) scores now. How did they fix themselves? In 2012, they introduced phonics-based instruction and began to hold back about 10% of 3rd graders per year who failed at reading. Oregon—dead last by...
by Ty Davison | Mar 20, 2025 | News & Commentary
A laser focus on literacy for summer learning programs runs into opposition at Legislature – oregonlive.com: With spring break just around the corner, Oregon lawmakers are still wrestling over requirements for summer learning programs that will kick off in just...
by Ty Davison | Mar 18, 2025 | News & Commentary
Oregon Republican lawmaker reads sexually explicit passage on House floor to call out bill that would ban book bans – oregonlive.com: His on-camera literary recitation from a young adult novel was a response to a Democratic-sponsored bill up for consideration in...
