Lisa Snell is director of education policy at the Reason Foundation.
LAUSD's Fiscal Crisis Can't be Blamed on Charter Schools or Declining Enrollment
Rising benefits costs and a bloated administration is putting Los Angeles' schools deep in the red.
Director of Education Policy, Reason Foundation
Rising benefits costs and a bloated administration is putting Los Angeles' schools deep in the red.
The school choice significance of Obama's new education secretary.
School spending increases, the ranks of administrators swell, but scores remain flat.
The sad fact is that the public schools have spent more than $600 billion a year with little to show in terms of science education for public school students.
The private schools that educate the subcontinent's poor are under attack.
A forum on the failures and future of the American university
Oklahoma and Georgia are held as models but show few results
The president is guided by ideology rather than evidence.
Oakland embraces the charter school revolution.
After the administration's first year, it's status quo 20, reform 1.
Head Start Fail
School choice in L.A.
Lisa Snell debates Ralph E. Shaffer in the L.A. Times
Throwing money at failing schools won't boost test scores or graduation rates
Remembering one of the most devoted and principled school reformers of all time
The K-12 system is broken. Why extend it any earlier?
Oakland, Compton show school choice can improve results more than the status quo.
Schools in New Orleans
From underreporting violence to inflating graduation rates to fudging testscores, educators are lying to the American public.
Voucher progress.
How schools use the "learning disability" label to cover up their failures.
Don't blame Edison's failure on the market.
Title I's formula for determining aid -- and its recipe for fraud.
Novelist Dean Koontz on Freud, fraud, and the Great Society