updated Tue. March 5, 2024
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Washington City Paper
November 30, 2017
Don Soifer, vice chair of the PCSB, echoes this idea. “With 13,000 students on charter waitlists and when one-in-three 14 year olds in the District still test at below-basic levels in math,” he asked City Paper, “can we afford to let the urgency of creating more high-quality educational opportunities for childrenÃâà...
Federal Times
June 5, 2017
LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 06: U.S. Postal Service clerks help customers at the Los Feliz Post Office on February 6, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. The U.S. Postal Service plans to end Saturday delivery of first-class mail by August, which could save the service $2 billion annually after losing nearlyÃâà...
Virginian-Pilot
January 24, 2017
“The quality of the schools available vary greatly from neighborhood to neighborhood and school district to school district, and that's a challenge for military leaders,” Don Soifer, one of the report's authors, said in a telephone interview. State data shows that children in Norfolk, which is home to the world'sÃâà...
Military Times
January 23, 2017
"The inconsistencies in education for military-connected students cluster around four key areas: access, standards, supports, and policies," said Don Soifer, co-author of the report and executive vice president of the Lexington Institute, in a statement describing the findings. Many military children faceÃâà...
Brookings Institution (blog)
February 24, 2016
Is the annual expenditure on U.S. public elementary and secondary education appropriate and sustainable? Reasonable people can disagree whether the current $600+ billion—5.2 percent of the nation's GDP—is too much or not enough, especially when considering the different federal, state, and localÃâà...
New York Times (blog)
March 11, 2010
Don Soifer is the executive vice president and an education analyst at the Lexington Institute, a free-market think tank. This week's vote by the Kansas City board of education to close nearly half of its schools for financial reasons is the latest, and perhaps most dramatic, example of a major public schoolÃâà...
