Month: February 2020
Matthew Nielsen: Nebraska is far behind in embracing school choice
By Matthew Nielsen: School choice has been a hotly contested issue in Nebraska politics for several years. Special interest groups, politicians and unions all have plenty of reasons to be concerned about the state of education in Nebraska, but no one has more interest than parents and the students themselves — all 367,000 of them. …
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Seven thousand school choice students had personal data leaked by state Department of Education
On Jan. 27, Dillon Rosenblatt of the Arizona Capitol Times broke the news that the Arizona Department of Education released sensitive information concerning over 7,000 students who participate in the state’s Empowerment Scholarship Account program. The information released contained not only names of participants but also contact information, amounts awarded through the program to each student, and, …