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Indiana parents and teachers rally against Common Core standards. | Number of the Week
The number of charter schools across the country is growing. | Quote of the Week
Education is an integral part of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. | Don't Miss
Heritage experts write about the Newtown tragedy. | |
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School Choice Week Makes Its Way Across the Country
By Rachel Sheffield
The third annual National School Choice Week is around the corner. And so is “the first-ever nationwide, whistle-stop train tour” to commemorate the week. The Whistle-Stop Train Tour will make a cross-country trek, with “14 very special events along the tour’s route” in support of school choice; hosted by “[p]arents, students, community leaders, education organizations and elected officials of both parties.” The train—a historic railcar dubbed “The National School Choice Week Special”—will set out from Los Angeles’s Union Station on January 25 and will end its journey in New York on February 2.
The train tour is just one of many events that will take place during National School Choice Week.
Across the country, a “record-breaking 3,000 events [are] being independently planned for National School Choice Week 2013…to demonstrate overwhelming support, and demand, for school choice…while shining a positive spotlight on the hundreds of organizations, thousands of schools, and millions of Americans working every day to increase access to great schools in our country.”
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Watch |  | Indiana Parents and Teachers Rally to Stop Common Core Standards
“Indiana parents and teachers should be in control of standards and testing, not bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.,” commented a parent at last Wednesday’s rally at the Indiana state capitol building. Legislators will vote this week on a bill that would repeal the Common Core standards. | |
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Number of the Week
6,000
A record 6,000 charter schools are in operation today, serving approximately 2.3 million American students.
The number of charter schools has grown dramatically, nearly 50 percent since the 2007-2008 school year.
The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools | | | Quote of the Week |  | “Thirty years ago, my uncle Martin Luther King Jr. talked about America’s ‘promissory note’ to deliver to all its people the unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. He dreamed of an America where all children, regardless of their color or religion or other circumstance, would enjoy the full exercise of those rights.
“For our children, a decent education is an integral part of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. For parents faced with school violence, pervasive drug use, and sexual license, a choice among different types of education is no less important.”
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Don’t Miss
The Newtown Tragedy: Complex Causes Require Thoughtful Analysis and Responses
“All Americans had a visceral reaction of shock and pain to the killing of 20 schoolchildren and six staff members in Newtown, Connecticut,” write The Heritage Foundation’s John Malcolm and Jennifer Marshall. “In responding to this attack, Americans must consider with great reflection and care how best to proceed, in a manner consistent with our laws and our traditions, to protect innocent lives.” |  National School Choice Week is planning “the first-ever nationwide, whistle-stop train tour in support of school choice.” Check it out here! | |
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