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MPPI Releases School Choice Handbook
This School Choice for Maryland handbook is written to inform Maryland parents and taxpayers and help give them the tools they need to benefit from the school choice revolution—a movement where, thus far, Maryland has been left behind. My hope is that this handbook will help Marylanders begin a conversation about how we too can benefit from embracing policies that give parents more options for how to educate their children. The more we know and understand about school choice opportunities that currently exist in our country, the better able we will be to call for these options in the Old Line State. READ MORE >>
MPPI Wins National Grant for Education Work
The Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation has awarded a $25,000 grant to the Maryland Public Policy Institute for its innovative proposal to provide school choice to the state’s 11,500 foster care children. The award was given as part of the Foundation’s second annual Innovation in Promoting School Choice competition.
“Since its inception in 2001, MPPI has made tremendous strides in providing innovative solutions for some of Maryland’s biggest challenges,” said Robert C. Enlow, executive director of the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation. “This grant will help them apply that ingenuity toward education.”
Last October, MPPI released a report, School Choice for Maryland’s Foster Care Children: Fostering Stability, Satisfaction and Achievement, explaining the need to provide educational options to foster care children. The report cites instability, persistent low expectations and the lack of life skills and self-sufficiency training as some of the major barriers to the development of foster care children.
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