parental empowerment

Keri D. Ingraham joined the Tiffany Meier Tonight show on NTD News on September 2 to encourage parents to take an active role in their children’s education and offer practical recommendations for staying engaged throughout the school year. Ingraham emphasized that parents know and love their children best and will remain their most important advocates long after the school year ends.

National School Choice Week is a great time to celebrate the opportunities and innovations taking place in America’s K-12 education system. At the core of school choice lies this belief: parents — not bureaucrats — know what’s best for their child’s education. Every year, there are school choice highlights, but this year is marked by extraordinary advances in education freedom. While school choice legislation at the state level is underway, there’s a brand-new, transformative law at the federal level: the Federal Tax Credit Scholarship. In a remarkably short period, 26 governors have opted their states into the Federal Tax Credit Scholarship, unlocking new opportunities for families and demonstrating nationwide confidence in policies that put parents in the driver’s seat of Read More ›

Keri D. Ingraham appeared on the CBN News Quick Start Podcast to discuss the Trump administration’s overhaul of the U.S. Department of Education. She covered the origins of the U.S. Department of Education, the recent results of the Nation’s Report Card, and how school choice empowers parents and improves learning for all students.

On Tuesday, Wyoming became the 15th state to enact universal school choice into law with Gov. Mark Gordon’s signature on the Steamboat Legacy Scholarship Act. The Cowboy State joins a rapidly growing group of states that have passed laws giving all (or nearly all) families statewide choice concerning their children’s kindergarten through twelfth-grade education. Those states are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia. The act grants families who choose to participate with an education savings account of $7,000 per student per year to allocate toward approved K-12 educational expenses. Education savings accounts with universal eligibility are the gold standard of school choice programs due to the flexibility they provide parents to select the best learning Read More ›