ISIL Freedom Network: United States > Institutes, Organizations, and Clubs > School Choice

The Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation
Source: The Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation
Country: United States

Few people in history have done as much to promote liberty as Milton & Rose Friedman. They have now devoted themselves to a project that has been important to them for decades: school choice.

CEO America
Source: Children's Educational Opportunity Foundation
City: Bentonville, State: AR, Country: United States
E-mail: ceoamerica@ceoamerica.org

CEO America not only publishes research supporting school choice, it also helps support privately funded voucher programs for low-income children. Site reflects these commitments by posting school-choice news and research, as well as tips on how to start a private voucher program.

Alliance for Parental Involvement in Education
Source: AllPIE
State: NY, Country: United States

The Alliance for Parental Involvement in Education (AllPIE) provides information about school choice and other reform-related issues, and assists and encourages parental involvement in education -- whether in public or private schools or at home.

Teachers for Better Education
Source: TBE
Country: United States

A national organization of teachers who support school choice. Any teacher, former teacher or public school administrator is invited to participate.

National Organizations Interested in School Choice
Source: The Heritage Foundation
Country: United States

More than two dozen national organizations that have done work in the area of school choice.

Citizens for Educational Freedom
Source: CEF
Country: United States
E-mail: jefnjoy@swebell.net

A national, non-profit corporation founded in 1959 that promotes the primary rights of parents to freedom of choice, justice and quality in education for all.

Council for American Private Education
Source: CAPE
Country: United States

Founded in 1971 "to provide a coherent voice for private schools in the educational community."

Pro-school-choice organizations
Source: Heartland Institute/School Reform News
Country: United States

Directory of organizations that support market-based school reform.

Altair Learning.com
Source: ALC
Country: United States
E-mail: info@altairlearning.net

A network management company that provides distance learning services and technology management to online Schools.

Teacher's Advisory Board
Source: Children's Scholarship Fund
Country: United States

Made up of top educators from around the nation, the Teachers' Advisory Board (TAB) of the Children's Scholarship Fund (CSF), advises CSF on a wide variety of education issues. "Children are the reason for a system of education, and that system's needs must not take precedence over the needs of children."

Parents for free choice in education
Source: SCUSA
Country: United States

A web site associated with Jersey City Mayor Bret Schundler's education initiatives. "When we have accomplished our mission, and full school choice is in place, all of education will improve drastically, for that is the power of competition. We see it everywhere in life." Includes articles explaining school choice.

Campaign for America's Children
Source: CFAC
City: New York, State: NY, Country: United States
E-mail: comments@putparentsincharge.org

You may have seen this group's highly affecting ads on television. One shows a boy in a poor neighborhood walking to school who sees another boy in a limousine passing slowly by. The voiceover says, "Most Congressmen send their children to private schools. Shouldn't you have that choice? Put parents in charge of education." Led by Ted Forstmann, founder of the Children's Scholarship Fund.

Citizens for Educational Freedom
Source: CEF
Country: United States

CEF works to inform parents of their right to choose their children's schools, and to persuade state and federal legislators to sponsor legislation which would make that choice a reality for all Americans.

4Choice
Source: 4Choice
Country: United States

"Don't create vouchers people need to qualify for. Make it work the way public schools get paid now; the money simply follows the kids. School Choice puts child-centered public funding ahead of school-centered funding."

Put parents in charge
Source: Campaign for America's Children
Country: United States

We thought we'd better get this site on our database after we saw a TV ad for it. Advocates that parents be in charge of their kids. "We believe that when schools are forced to compete, existing schools will be motivated to improve, the system will open up, and new educational options will emerge."

Educational foundation accounts
Source: A Choice For Every Child Foundation/Every Church A School Foundation
Author: Martin Tyler Angell
Country: United States
E-mail: martinangell@mymail.net

"We are giving away 10,000 free foundation accounts to people who want to positively influence the lives of children through giving or activism. You control where your money goes."

School choice info
Source: Institute for the Transformation of Learning
Country: United States

The web site of the Institute for the Transformation of Learning, founded by Howard Fuller in 1985. "Reliable information and straight talk about school choice."

Black Alliance for Educational Options
Source: BAEO
City: Washington, State: DC, Country: United States

Group promoting educational options for those most hurt by the government-school monopoly -- black children. BAEO supports privately financed scholarships, charter schools, tax credits, vouchers, and public-school innovation.

Vouchers offer hope to black families; Supreme Court decision to permit choice in areas with failing schools
Source: The National Center for Public Policy Research
Country: United States

"The U.S. Supreme Court's June 27 decision upholding the constitutionality of school vouchers is hailed by the African-American leadership network Project 21 as a major leap forward in providing inner-city minority children with access to a quality education." (06/27/02)

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