Mr. President, May I Drive the Bulldozer?

By |2025-02-11T11:16:21-05:00February 11th, 2025|

In 2002, I became the first (and possibly last) Director of School Choice at the U.S. Department of Education. President George W. Bush had assembled a great team of reformers who sought to empower parents and children through expansion of school choice and a reduction in bureaucratic nonsense. What did I learn in those three and a half years? The agency should be bulldozed. It is a gigantic cesspool of apparatchiks who are sucking up money that should go to the students.

How to Live in Peace

By |2020-04-23T21:56:57-04:00May 24th, 2017|

My win does not come at your expense, and your win doesn't come at my expense. And just as importantly, we can be friends.

Educational Sabotage

By |2017-03-29T15:01:18-04:00March 29th, 2017|

Since most of the school violence and discipline problems rest with black students, there are a few questions that black parents, politicians, academics and civil rights advocates should ponder.

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