A Private School That’s Out of This World
From harnessing solar energy to launching the first privately funded rocket, SpaceX founder and PayPal cofounder Elon Musk is a...
A Choice for Timothy
Timothy Farr wasn’t born deaf. As a baby, he contracted meningitis, and soon after he lost the ability to hear....
The Fallacy of Tailgate Economics
News flash: Saint Louis is in danger of losing its football team. City and state officials are working feverishly on...
Missouri Jumps on the ESA Bandwagon-Hurray!
British Mathematician Alfred North Whitehead said, “Every really new idea looks crazy at first.” Perhaps that’s what school choice critics...
When Will Missouri Lawmakers Hear a School Choice Bill?
Last week, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran a headline declaring, “Plenty of talk, scarcity of answers when it comes to...
Equal Opportunity Scholarships-Giving Students Options
If you could expand educational opportunities for students in failing schools by leveraging greater private investment in education, would you...
ESAs Empower Families in Arizona
All students have unique educational needs, which is why Salima’s parents chose to participate in Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (ESA) program....
Missouri Should Stop Funding Ghost Students
(Photo Credit – The Goldwater Institute) Like most states, Arizona felt a financial crunch in the wake of the economic...
Does Kansas City Need Rail Transit?
After downtown voters rejected a taxing district for the expansion of Kansas City’s streetcar, rail proponents are looking for a...
Creationism, The Left’s Weapon Against School Choice
Should taxpayers be compelled to fund schools that teach concepts that support junk science or violate their convictions? The growing...
Pennsylvania’s Tax Credit Scholarship Program…Winning!
This week, the Show-Me Institute released our third and final case study about tax credit scholarship programs in other states:...
Mark Your Calendars For Our April 25 Tax Credit Scholarship Event
When I speak about tax credit scholarships, I get a lot of questions: What is a tax credit scholarship? How...
Education Savings Accounts Are Good For Kids
On Feb. 24, the Mississippi Clarion-Ledger published an editorial supporting the establishment of education savings accounts (ESA) in the Magnolia...
The Education Debit Card
In 2011, the Arizona Legislature approved the first education savings account (ESA) program in the United States — called the Empowerment...
Tear Down The Wall Between Public Dollars And Private Schools
As first appearing in the Education News on August 14, 2013: Growing up in one of the most dangerous neighborhoods...
Moving For A Quality Education
Randy Georges Sr. knows something about school choice. He moved from the Tortola, British Virgin Islands to Missouri to obtain...
Mo’ Money Will Not Solve MO Problems
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a lot of money? So much money that you could do everything you want...
Making Public Education More Flexible
I recently “sat down” with Jonathan Butcher, education director of the Goldwater Institute, to discuss education savings accounts (ESA). During...
New Idea For A New Year
It is a new year and you know what that means . . . a new legislative session. During the...
Education Saving Accounts: What Are They?
On Sunday, the Columbia Daily Tribune published an op-ed I penned and I would like to expand here on one...
