In New York, the first public elementary school in the nation to offer separate instruction for boys and girls just received unanimous approval by the New York State Board of Regents. Under this innovative single-sex design, the Brighter Choice Charter School for Girls and the Brighter Choice Charter School for Boys will be housed under one roof in Albany, NY and share a principal and teaching faculty. This school will finally give at-risk children those same opportunities. In the new millennium, a brand new idea has some very traditional roots. Meanwhile, the company's chief technology advisor is Yale University computer scientist David Gelernter, who has questioned the use of computers in the classroom thus ensuring that the emphasis will be on content, not glitz.
Reports concerning the death of vouchers are greatly exaggerated.
These reports are emanating from political writers in the media who assume that because there's talk of scaling back a modest choice component of the overall Bush education initiative, it means that Republicans are backing off, having been depressed or otherwise discouraged by the failure of fall choice initiatives and one recent court ruling against choice . The reality is that the Bush campaign never promoted vouchers as a single issue, but rather, as a last ditch effort for parents whose children were in schools found to be failing. But then, neither do most active reformers. The suggestion that vouchers will rise or fall based on action in Washington is wishful thinking on the part of opponents. School choice has always progressed from the grassroots and only efforts that start at the grassroots and focus on the total school picture succeed.