A big milestone, Montana became the 47th state to enact a law establishing charter schools, called "community choice schools," but was almost immediately challenged from parochial special interests that have delayed implementation of operations necessary to...

The state's Office of Public Instruction supports various learning approaches, including personalized and competency-based education, while offering CTE and dual enrollment programs to give K-12 students options to personalize their learning and explore career...

In 2023, Governor Gianforte made tremendous progress by signing into law two charter schools bills, in addition to a publicly funded ESA account for students with special needs to empower parents to pursue education that best meets the needs of their child....

Montana's scholarship tax credit is possibly the best-known program in the country! It was the program at the center of the U.S. Supreme Court's June 30, 2020 ruling in favor of the parents and the program. (Much more info on that here:...

Montana has made strides to ensure its state education website is user- friendly and even boasts that parents are a child’s first teacher! School and district report cards are located on the main landing page of Montana’s Office Public Instruction’s website....

One of many data points to assess whether a state has the right policies in place to ensure teacher quality is the "use of student achievement data in teacher preparation accountability." How empty or full the fuel tank above is will give you the answer for your state.

Montana's Blaine Amendment has been found unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court in June, 2020. The state supreme court had originally found that a tax credit scholarship program that permitted parents to spend money at a parochial school was...