In this Monthly Debrief podcast, we take a break from our normal format to hear from our Vice President of Legal Affairs Leslie Hiner about an IRS rule that could have a negative effect on tax-credit scholarship programs across the country. Leslie chats with Senior Director of State Relations Michael Chartier about the rule and what EdChoice is doing about it.

For more information, visit www.edchoice.org.

In today’s EdChoice Chat, our CRM and Email Marketing Manager Abby Hayes chats with Jenny Clark about her family’s experience with Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Accounts, the nation’s oldest education savings account (ESA) program. She talks about her sons’ specific challenges and how the ESA is helping them thrive.

Learn more at www.edchoice.org.

In this Monthly Debrief podcast, EdChoice's Senior Director of State Relations Michael Chartier and Director of Policy Jason Bedrick discuss the latest school choice happenings in the state, especially how November's mid-term elections might affect school choice in the states.

For more information, visit www.edchoice.org. You can also get our full review of the state of the states on school choice

In this episode of EdChoice Chats, our Director of State Research and Special Projects Drew Catt talks with Assistant Professor of Teaching and Learning Grant Clayton at the University of Colorado about his journey from K–12 teacher to administrator to professor and researcher and his mission to “blow up” the way teachers-in-training think about schooling and the classroom.

For more information, visit www.edchoice.org.

As the largest-ever survey of participants in a private school choice program, this new report represents some of the strongest evidence to date of the views and educational priorities of parents exercising private school choice. Listen to the authors, Jason Bedrick and Dr. Lindsey Burke, talk about what inspired this study of Florida tax-credit scholarship parents and what they found.

To download the full report, visit www.edchoice.org/FLParentSurvey.

In this Monthly Debrief podcast, EdChoice’s Director of State Relations Lauren Hodge and Director of Policy Jason Bedrick discuss the latest school choice happenings in the states in September and look forward to what’s still to come as we close out the month.

For more information, visit www.edchoice.org

In today’s episode of EdChoice Chats, Mike McShane talks with the founder of Build UP, a new school launching in 2019 in Ensley, Alabama. In the podcast, Mark Martin shares his ambitious vision to help his students solve some of their core poverty-related problems.

To learn more, visit www.edchoice.org.

In today’s episode of EdChoice Chats, two hardcore Harry Potter fans—our President and CEO Robert Enlow and our CRM and Email Marketing Manager Abby Hayes—get creative discussing the educational themes in one of the most beloved book and movie series of all time. Check it out!

Learn more about school choice at www.edchoice.org.

What does it mean to hold schools accountable? How do we measure school performance? Why do we care? We convened focus groups of K-12 stakeholders to wrestle with these tough questions and help us better understand the current accountability landscape—where we’ve been as well as where we’re headed. We’ve compiled what those focus group participants told us into this report, which the authors discuss in this podcast.

Download the full report at www.edchoice.org/AccountabilityEcosystem

You may have heard that private schools don’t serve students with special needs. But in today’s podcast, Director of National Research Mike McShane talks with Lannie Davis-Frecker, president and CEO of the Julie Billiart Schools, about how the schools serve students with a variety of special needs, how they fund the schools and how they measure progress.

For more information, visit www.edchoice.org.