Greg Continues to Run Up the Score on Jay Mathews
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) Another day, another couple of style points for Greg. North Carolina’s legislature passed a tax credit for special needs students with an overwhelming bipartisan...
View ArticleLouisiana Doubles Down
Sorry, I couldn’t find “Louisiana Hold ‘Em” (Guest post by Greg Forster) Two Wisconsin enactments while I was travelling a week ago – expanding Milwaukee vouchers and creating a new voucher program in...
View ArticleIowa Legislature Lines Up Another Enactment
(Guest post by Greg Forster) Last night, Iowa’s House and Senate passed a budget that expands funding for the state’s tax-credit scholarship program. If the governor signs, as expected, that will...
View ArticleJay Mathews Comes Back for More
(Guest post by Greg Forster) True story: At the house of some friends from church, the elder son (about six years old) was explaining the big bandage he was wearing. He told us he had climbed up on...
View ArticleGreg goes Three-Peat on Jay Mathews
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) I think Greg has three-peated on his bet with Jay Mathews regarding school choice expansion. Here is my count, with a few of these not being totally done deals yet (but...
View ArticleGreg Earns Even More Style Points Just Moments After Recanting
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) Mere moments after recanting his Common Core opposition, Greg ran up the score on Jay Mathews even more with news that Ohio lawmakers have passed a new statewide voucher...
View ArticleGreg Runs Up More Style Points in 2013
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) This one slipped past me but not the eagle-eyes at School Reform News- Missouri joins the school choice fraternity with a tax credit for special needs children. If I...
View ArticleUse the Force MOOC! A 2013 retrospective
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) The after-Christmas but before New Year period is always dominated by “Year in Review” retrospectives, so why not join in on the fun? Here at the Jayblog we dig new...
View ArticleForster-Mathews over/under challenge- place your 2015 bets now
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) Election coverage inevitably drifts to beltway drama, but I’m at more than a bit of a loss to understand why. It’s kind of like the nation’s bizarre fascination with 32...
View ArticleMight Greg Rope-a-Dope His Way to Another Win over Jay Mathews?
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) So I have not been keeping track this year, and election years are not usually the best for big reforms. The over under is 7 new or expanded programs. It wasn’t looking...
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