Abstract: 2011 has been a milestone year for school choice, setting the bar high for state legislatures across the country to increase families’ educational options. What began with a crucial re-authorization of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program continued… Read more
Testimony before the Council of the District of ColumbiaDelivered March 14, 2011 My name is James Jay Carafano. I am the Deputy Director of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies and the Director… Read more
Congress put school vouchers to the test in 2004 when it authorized the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (DCOSP), a federally funded voucher program serving low-income students in the nation’s capital. It has awarded $7,500 scholarships to more than 3,700 students over the past six years. Congress… Read more
Let Me Rise, a 30-minute film produced by The Heritage Foundation about the school choice debate in our nation's capital and around the country, offers a compelling look at the future of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program as told through...… Read more
Video of District of Columbia children appealing to President Obama to continue giving DC children a choice for better education through the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program. … Read more
Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) has unveiled an ambitious health care plan that is comprehensive in scope, sparse in detail, and therefore uncertain in its cost and savings estimates. His proposals focus on three stated objectives: offering affordable, comprehensive, and portable coverage; containing spiraling health care costs and improving quality of care; and promoting… Read more
Over the past several decades, federal and state transportation policies have struggled to keep pace with a rising population and increasing numbers of motorists and trucks using the roads. As a result, congestion has worsened in most major metropolitan areas, imposing extra costs on all motorists and truckers and… Read more
The District of Columbia is home to one of the nation's most troubled public school systems. The District spends $14,400 for every child in public school—well above the national average and more than any of the 50 states.[1] The 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)… Read more
(Archived document, may contain errors) T 965 November 2,1993 SHOULD CONGRESS BE ABOVE THE LAW Congress] can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of society James Madison, Federalist No. 57… Read more
Few legislators have done more to advance school choice than Kevin Chavous. As a city councilmember in Washington D.C....… Read more
Joseph Kelley knew something was wrong when his son Rashawn flunked first grade. “I knew he knew his alphabet forward...… Read more
A District of Columbia city council member is calling on the city’s taxicab commission to allow competition to its...… Read more
The federal government might not have shut down on Monday, but rush hour traffic stopped in our nation's capital when...… Read more
Friday night, Speaker John Boehner secured a huge win for D.C.’s schoolchildren. In a vital triumph for low-income...… Read more
In a sweeping victory for school choice, a bill to reauthorize and expand the successful D.C. Opportunity Scholarship...… Read more
The month of March closed with a victorious week for schoolchildren and families across the nation. School choice bills...… Read more
The budget battle has yet to be worked out. Does a government shutdown loom? Also, gas prices are on the rise. So why...… Read more
In the shadow of the U.S. Capitol, children suffer in a public education system rife with violence and ranked among the...… Read more
Today, a bill that would restore and expand the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (DCOSP)—the flagship school choice...… Read more