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Parents in Charge Foundation Parents in Charge is dedicated to informing the public on issues affecting education at the state level and presenting alternative concepts of school and educational choice to the public, elected officials, and the media.
Education Lessons We Left Behind The Washington Post Let us limp down memory lane to mark this week's melancholy 25th anniversary of a national commission's report that galvanized Americans to vow to do better. Today the nation still ignores what had been learned years before 1983. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan once puckishly said that data indicated that the leading determinant of the quality of public schools, measured by standardized tests, was the schools' proximity to Canada. He meant that the geographic correlation was stronger than the correlation between high test scores and high per-pupil expenditures. Moynihan also knew that schools cannot compensate for the disintegration of families and hence communities -- the primary transmitters of social capital. No reform can enable schools to cope with the 36.9 percent of all children and 69.9 percent of black children today born out of wedlock, which means, among many other things, a continually renewed cohort of unruly adolescent males. Get full story here School Choice - Now More Than Ever Please take a moment to read this great editorial from the Wall Street Journal. Get full editorial here Interview with Randy Page, Plaintiff in the Page v. Lexington 1 case. GetLiberty news corespondent Carter Clews took the time to interview Randy Page and Kevin Hall on the benchmark Page v. Lexington 1 case. This is a must watch. Lexington case heads to appeals court The State March 20, 2008 “Parents in Charge Foundation is assisting Mr. Page because of the fundamental issues that are involved,” Rich wrote in an e-mail. “When government takes on the role of active player in the public debate over policy, free debate is seriously harmed.” Rich wrote that he is interested in the Page case because “There is a growing tendency for government to dictate the terms of debate” that “we believe is outside its authority.” Get full article here On March 20, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals heard the Page v. Lexington 1 case. This case carries an important significance for not only school choice, but for freedom of speech as well. Lexington School District was using its school email system to oppose a school choice measure in the State Legislature. Randy Page, a resident of the district, demanded equal time to propose a real education solution to the school district residents. Get the Official Parents in Charge Press Release Here Get the Case Summary Here Get the Appellants Brief Here Get the Appellants Reply Brief Here 
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