Funding Education Opportunity Newsletters

Funding Education Opportunity is a monthly newsletter curated by education policy analyst Jude Schwalbach which looks at the intersection of school finance and school choice to explore how education funding policy impacts students’ success.

Each month the Funding Education Opportunity newsletter keeps you up to date on K-12 education reforms making headlines across the country and provides an original analysis of school data, policy debates, and much more.

Previous issues of this newsletter are below and Reason Foundation's education research is here.

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Funding Education Opportunity: The Trump administration’s role in supporting school choice

Plus, new school choice laws impact hundreds of thousands of students in Texas, Arkansas, Indiana, and South Carolina.

By Jude Schwalbach
May 20, 2025
Funding Education Opportunity: Trump gutted the U.S. Department of Education—what this means for taxpayers and the public

Plus, Texas, Arkansas, New Hampshire, and North Dakota advance school choice proposals.

By Jude Schwalbach
April 22, 2025
Funding Education Opportunity: Data on 1.8 million students attending schools of their choice across six states

Plus, Tennessee, Idaho and Wyoming recently passed strong school choice laws.

By Jude Schwalbach
March 19, 2025
Funding Education Opportunity: The best K-12 open enrollment proposals of 2025

Plus, Tennessee lawmakers passed a robust school choice policy, and Texas and Idaho advanced bills.

By Jude Schwalbach
February 13, 2025
Funding Education Opportunity: Public schools closing as enrollments decline

Plus, Tennessee, Wyoming, and South Carolina policymakers look to advance school choice proposals.

By Jude Schwalbach and Aaron Garth Smith
January 28, 2025
Funding Education Opportunity: Will Trump shutter the U.S. Department of Education?

Plus, North Dakota and South Carolina policymakers look to advance school choice proposals.

By Jude Schwalbach
December 17, 2024
Funding Education Opportunity: How the 2024 elections affected the K-12 reform landscape

Plus: Despite school choice ballot measures failing in three states, state policymakers prepare to advance school choice proposals in Texas and Tennessee.

By Jude Schwalbach
November 19, 2024
Funding Education Opportunity: Grading states’ K-12 open enrollment laws

Plus: November ballot initiatives in five states and more.

By Jude Schwalbach
October 29, 2024
Funding Education Opportunity: Student loan forgiveness is not the answer to strengthening public education

Plus: Education legislation news North Carolina, and more.

By Jude Schwalbach
September 17, 2024
Funding Education Opportunity: Why open enrollment transparency matters

Plus: Education legislation news from Texas, Florida, Arkansas and more.

By Jude Schwalbach
August 20, 2024
Funding Education Opportunity: Ghost students strip taxpayers’ pocketbooks bare

Plus: Education legislation news Pennsylvania, and more.

By Jude Schwalbach
July 23, 2024
Funding Education Opportunity: Many school districts need to reduce staff, consolidate

Plus: Education spending data from all states, the latest school choice legislation, and more.

By Jude Schwalbach
June 18, 2024
Funding Education Opportunity: Public school boundaries still suffer from the effects of educational redlining

Plus: Pennsylvania private school scholarship proposal, Tennessee private school choice bill dies, and more.

By Jude Schwalbach
May 21, 2024
Funding Education Opportunity: To combat learning loss, schools need to use time more wisely

Plus: School choice legislation news from Georgia, Louisiana, Nebraska, and more.

By Jude Schwalbach
April 23, 2024
Funding Education Opportunity: School choice laws advance in five more states

Plus: Lawsuits in multiple states, Republican primary elections likely impact on school choice in Texas, and more.

By Jude Schwalbach
March 19, 2024
Funding Education Opportunity: Examining important trends in education spending, outcomes and staffing

Plus: Education legislation news in New Hampshire, Alabama, and Missouri, and more.

By Jude Schwalbach
February 29, 2024
Funding Education Opportunity: The best open enrollment proposals of 2024 and the new K-12 School Choice Calculator

Plus: Florida may expand eligibility for private school choice programs, school choice legislative updates from several states, and more.

By Jude Schwalbach
January 23, 2024
Funding Education Opportunity: Preparing for the 2024 legislative sessions, news from Tennessee, Wyoming, and Missouri, and more

Plus: Oklahoma's private school tax credit in high demand, Wisconsin Supreme Court rejects lawsuit claiming state's voucher program was unconstitutional, and more.

By Jude Schwalbach
December 18, 2023