Public college tuition is on the rise, but Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam is determined to make it accessible to everyone.

Louisiana placed near the top in yet another education report card measuring charter school policies. The state has staked out a place at the front of the reform movement; the question now is whether these reforms actually work.

There are forces at work in American politics that keep any party from establishing a permanent majority. The major fault line opening up between New York’s most powerful Democrats, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, proves the point.

Utah Senator Mike Lee has proposed a new bill which would attempt to break the federal monopoly on higher-ed accreditation. Current federal law forbids accreditation agencies from accrediting schools that do not grant formal degrees and forbids students at non-accredited schools from receiving federal aid, pushing students toward a four-year residential model that may not suit them. Lee’s bill would give more power to the states to accredit whatever courses they want, hopefully lowering costs in the process.

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s ambitious school voucher programs just got a big boost from one of the biggest names in education reform. Students First, a school reform organization led by former DC schools commissioner Michelle Rhee, released a national state-by-state report card on Tuesday which ranked Louisiana first in the nation with a B- grade, just ahead of Florida, Indiana and Rhode Island.

the schools got some good news today when the Independent Budget Office released a study finding that students do not transfer out of charter schools at a higher rate than traditional ones. This may sound like a small finding, but complaints that charter had a high attrition rate have been a key talking points for critics for years. Special Education, however, remains a problem.

Since 2011, Oregon has been pursuing an ambitious “40-40-20 plan,” which aims to have 40 percent of the state’s adults holding a bachelor’s degree, 40 more holding an associate’s degree, and the remaining 20 with a high school diploma or equivalent in the next 15 years. This goal naturally involves a major overhaul of the state’s education system, one that de-emphasizes standardized tests. That’s where the state runs into conflict with the Obama administration.