Matthew Ladner

Matthew Ladner is executive editor of redefinED. He has written numerous studies on school choice, charter schools and special education reform, and his articles have appeared in Education Next; the…

Legislation
Arizona and West Virginia now have robust school choice programs. Which state will be next?

(reimaginED) – Arizona had only a few days as the only state with broadly available K-12 choice until the West Virginia Supreme Court had the Mountain State join the party. Read More

October 11, 2022
Legislation
Arizona poised to become the first state with universal private K-12 choice. What happens next?

(reimaginED) – Word began to leak yesterday that the Save Our Schools group had misrepresented the number of signatures gathered in an effort to thwart Arizona’s universal ESA expansion. Read More

September 27, 2022
Public Education
Public school enrollment projected to decline significantly over next eight years

(reimaginED) – In the fall of 2019, American public-school enrollment stood at 50,796,445 students – as it turned out, a peak likely not to be revisited in our lifetimes. Between… Read More

August 22, 2022
Opinion, Public Education
Op-ed: Teacher ‘reKruiting krisis’

(reimaginED) – In the classic Krisis at Kamp Krusty episode of “The Simpsons,” Bart discovers that the summer camp he and Lisa attend is a de-facto child slave labor camp,… Read More

August 9, 2022
Public Education
K-12 education is part of NYC’s overall decline from glory days

(reimaginED) – Geography lies at the heart of New York’s success almost as much as it does for the United States as a whole. With the completion of the Erie… Read More

August 4, 2022