By Manon Scales With the full implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) fast approaching, nothing has experts, policy makers, and voters on the edge of their seats quite like the release of individual insurance premium rates. It is a simple question–will rates rise or fall?–with an exceedingly complicated answer–it depends. As states have begun […]
Discipline in the District: Are Expulsions Really Driving Charter Success?
By Kai Filipczak 1983 was a year of soul-searching for educators. Following the release of the landmark report “A Nation at Risk,” the United States was confronted with the bitter realization that all was not well with its much-vaunted public education system. For years, civil rights activists had focused on the need to deliver education equitably, but […]