School Vouchers

  • Should Obama have a guilty conscience?

    Former Education Secretary Bill Bennett goes after the president for Democrats' vote against vouchers that send two students to the school the Obama children attend.
    By Alex Koppelman March 11, 2009

  • Dems are right to dump D.C.'s school voucher program

    Republicans are up in arms over a Democratic move that might bring about the program's demise, but there's good reason to consign it to the trash heap.
    By Alex Koppelman March 10, 2009

  • What's Bush's Pell Grant proposal really about?

    Conservative observers suggest a proposal in his State of the Union address means a reemergence of school vouchers in disguise.
    By Alex Koppelman January 29, 2008

  • Mom, apple pie and God 1, evil liberal atheists 0

    The appellate decision on the Pledge of Allegiance has conservatives publicly howling -- but privately rubbing their hands with glee.
    By Michelle Goldberg June 28, 2002

  • The Kennedy compromise

    Conservatives might be screaming the loudest, but Democrats made their share of concessions in the House and Senate education bills.
    By Jake Tapper May 21, 2001

  • School of lies

    When it comes to education, only one rule applies in the nation's capital: "If it's broke, don't fix it."
    By Arianna Huffington May 7, 2001

  • The Bush education plan is too timid

    We need to give families a choice -- and that means vouchers and charter schools.
    By Arianna Huffington April 16, 2001

  • The perfect high

    An Illinois public school has achieved stunning success by admitting only gifted students and lavishing them with resources. But is this fair?
    By Meredith Maran January 24, 2001

  • A reprieve for public schools

    Author and educator Jonathan Kozol assesses the impact of the election on American children.
    By Amy Benfer November 10, 2000

  • School vouchers: Unconventional wisdom

    By E.M. Brown
    By August 21, 2000

  • Unconventional wisdom

    Why Joe Lieberman is good for poor black children and parents.
    By E.M. Brown August 16, 2000

  • The charter school magnate

    With his controversial privately run schools, entrepreneur David Brennan pushes Ohio into the center of the school-choice debate.
    By Eve Pell May 24, 2000

  • Can these schools be saved?

    Salon's week-long look at the state of America's public schools
    By Joan Walsh May 22, 2000

  • Vouchers and the law: The rebuttals

    In Round 2 of a Salon debate on school vouchers, our experts exchange barbs.
    By Daryl Lindsey March 28, 2000

  • Vouchers and the law

    Experts argue the constitutionality of the school reform movement's most controversial proposal.
    By Daryl Lindsey March 27, 2000

  • Gore gets religion

    But can he co-opt the GOP's embrace of federal dollars for religious charities?
    By Christopher Shea June 15, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Re-waging the battle of the sexes; vouchers won't fix our schools.
    Letters to the Editor May 19, 1999

  • Giuliani flunks school-voucher test

    Instead of helping the poor, he aims to dynamite public education.
    By Samuel G. Freedman May 12, 1999

  • The Education Divide

    School vouchers were supposed to be a straight liberal vs. conservative issue. Why, then, are black urban Democrats jumping on the same bandwagon as the Christian Coalition?
    By Samuel G. Freedman September 30, 1997
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