No More Lines: Opening Public Schools to All Families by 2030
May 9, 2024
Today, students are assigned to public schools based on where they live – and this practice separates children from the education that is best for them. A new report from yes. every kid., authored by Halli Faulkner, senior legislative drafter, outlines principles and policies that states can implement to empower families to choose the school that works for their children, free of archaic and exclusionary boundary lines. The report also includes a 50-state scan of barriers to equal public school access. The report includes a 50-state scan of policies to create open educational access for families. Many school district boundaries…
Open Up Public School Access in New Jersey: No More Lines
September 13, 2023
By Erica Jedynak. First published on SaveJersey.com Imagine a world-class, state-of-the-art cancer treatment facility. A child receives a scary diagnosis, and the treatment is just what he needs. Now imagine that the child is being denied access to the public hospital because the family does not live close enough. That is the functional equivalent of how public schools work in New Jersey. Education is one of the few, maybe only, areas, where politicians have decided that access is limited by zip code, and de facto wealth. No public park, pool, or hospital is run that way, restricting access based on…
