Category: CSF in the News
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Mike McCurry: Florida tax credit scholarship a national model with bipartisan support
By Mike McCurry When I was President Clinton’s press secretary, I saw the power of bipartisanship. I now see an emerging bipartisan consensus on a critical issue: educational choice for low income families. I am chairman of the Children’s Scholarship Fund, a national nonprofit that provides privately-funded scholarships to poor parents, so they can send…
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Credit-worthy kids – New York Post
A Dominican honor student. A principal from a Harlem school serving poor kids. A Catholic teachers-union official. A parent who works with immigrant families. These and other backers of a plan to boost funding for New York schools hiked up to Albany Monday to make their pitch. They make a strong case. The setting was…
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What Uber and School Choice Have in Common
By James C. Courtovich When President Lyndon Johnson announced the creation of the Transportation Department 48 years ago this month, he said that one of the agency’s goals would be to “bring new technology to every mode of transportation.” Nearly half a century later, Uber is doing just that, allowing customers to order and pay…
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CSF Scholar in the Wall Street Journal
Good news! This morning, CSF Scholar Uziel Dominguez was featured in a Wall Street Journal story about the REACH program, which helps prepare academically gifted boys starting in fifth grade to apply to New York’s highly selective Regis High School. He will begin his freshman year at Regis (which is tuition free) in a few weeks. Uziel…
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Opportunity and Hope featured on Newsmax TV
Watch author Naomi Schaefer Riley and CSF-Charlotte alum Silas Farley discuss the new book, Opportunity and Hope: Transforming Children’s Lives through Scholarships, on Newsmax TV’s Steve Malzberg Show.
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School Magic
Discussions of education reform more often center on policy than philanthropy.
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Opportunity for All
Anthony Samuels grew up surrounded by crime in the Bronx. Without the support he received from the Children’s Scholarship Fund, launched in 1998 through the efforts of philanthropists Ted Forstmann and John Walton, he never would have been able to attend Abington Friends School in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. Instead, he tells Naomi Schaefer Riley in her…
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Opinion: What Do Students Think About School Choice?
New York Post Columnist Naomi Schaefer Riley discusses her new book on the Children’s Scholarship Fund. Watch the video at The Wall Street Journal site.
