Christine Cooke Fairbanks

Testimony given by Christine Cooke, education policy director at Sutherland Institute, in support of HB 408 (Public Education Amendments), on Feb. 26, 2018, before the House Education Committee of the Utah Legislature. Thank you, committee members. My name is Christine…

Will focusing on a student’s individual needs and creating personalized learning paths cost taxpayers more money and result in ANOTHER tax hike? The short answer is no.

Testimony given to the State Education Committee by Christine Cooke on February 7, 2018: Members of the Committee, My name is Christine Cooke. I’m the director of education policy at Sutherland Institute. I sit on the Competency Based Learning Review…

Originally published in the Deseret News. The great American experiment only works when all voices are heard — men and women, liberals and conservatives, religious and nonreligious, old and young. What’s sad is that too many people — especially young…

Education choice is a principle, not a specific policy. And more people agree with this concept than you might think. At its core, education choice is the idea that we should give each student whatever educational options they need to…

Panelists at “Innovations for Growing Education Choice,” a policy panel Sutherland Institute hosted last Wednesday during National School Choice Week, shared innovative ideas that give students options – policies that ought to spread throughout Utah. Kathy Visser, mother and recipient…

Originally published by the Deseret News. Congress gave students more education choice when it passed the GOP tax law. A provision in the law allows 529 plan funds — typically spent on higher education — to be spent on K-12 expenses such…