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PROFESSIONAL HONORS s • Forbes 30 Under 30 (Education) 2021 • The Buckley Award, America’s Future Foundation 2020 • APPAM International Conference Program Committee Reviewer 2019 • Legatum Institute Fellow 2018-Present • Contributing Editor, Heartland Institute 2017-Present • Policy Advisor, Heartland Institute 2017-Present • Frédéric Bastiat Fellow, Mercatus Center 2017-2018 • Searle Freedom Trust Fellow 2016-2018 • Humane Studies Fellow, Institute for Humane Studies 2016-2018 • Distinguished Doctoral Fellow, University of Arkansas 2015-2018 • Best Paper Prize – 1 st Place, International Conference on School Choice and Reform 2017 • Best Paper Prize – Runner Up, International Conference on School Choice and Reform 2017 • Passed Comprehensive Exams with Distinction – School Choice & Education Policy 2017

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:{GRANTS s • International School Choice and Reform Conference Travel Grant, EdChoice 2018 • FEEcon 2017 Scholarship, Foundation for Economic Education 2017 • Young Scholar Award, Association of Private Enterprise Education 2017-2018 • :{Hayek Fund, Institute for Humane Studies 2016-2017 •}: Student Travel Fund, Arkansas Center for Research in Economics 2016-2018 • Conference & Research Grant, Institute for Humane Studies 2016

REFEREE FOR (9) s • Educational Researcher 2018-Present • Educational Review 2019-Present • Educational Policy 2018-Present • Social Science Quarterly 2018-Present • Urban Education 2019-Present • JJournal of School Choice 2016-Present • Journal of Private Enterprise 2019-Present • Education Policy Analysis Archives 2018-Present • The Independent Review 2018-Present}:

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DeAngelis, C. A. (2020). Are charter schools safer than district-run schools? Evidence from Pennsylvania. Journal of School Choice. • DeAngelis, C. A. (2020). The cost-effectiveness of public and private schools of choice in Wisconsin. Journal of School Choice [Cite Score 1.51 (2019)]. • DeAngelis, C. A. (2020). Regulatory compliance costs and private school participation in voucher programs. Journal of School Choice, 14(1), 95-121 [Cite Score 1.51 (2019)]. • DeAngelis, C. A. (2018). Does choice matter for school choice? An instrumental variables analysis of the effect of choice on parental satisfaction in charter schools. Journal of School Choice, 12(1), 216– 236, DOI: 10.1080/15582159.2017.1408003 [Cite Score 1.51 (2019)]. • Sude, Y., DeAngelis, C. A., & Wolf, P. J. (2018). Supplying choice: An analysis of school participation decisions in voucher programs in Washington, DC, Indiana, and Louisiana. Journal of School Choice, 12(1), 8–33, DOI: 10.1080/15582159.2017.1345232 [Cite Score 1.51 (2019)]. • DeAngelis, C. A., & Flanders, W. (2019). The education marketplace: The predictors of school growth and closures in Milwaukee. Journal of School Choice, 13(2), 355–379. [Cite Score 1.51 (2019)]. • DeAngelis, C. A. (2019). Does private schooling affect national stability? Journal of School Choice, 13(1), 76–93, DOI:10.1080/15582159.2018.1526616 [Cite Score 1.51 (2019)]. • DeAngelis, C. A. (2017). Do self-interested schooling selections improve society? A review of the evidence. Journal of School Choice, 11(4), 546–558, DOI: 10.1080/15582159.2017.1395615 [Cite Score 1.51 (2019)]. • Shakeel, M. D., & DeAngelis, C. A. (2018). Can private schools improve school climate? Evidence from a nationally representative sample. Journal of School Choice, 12(3), 426–445, DOI: 10.1080/15582159.2018.1490383 [Cite Score 1.51 (2019)]. • Shakeel, M. D., & DeAngelis, C. A. (2017). Who is more free? A comparison of the goals and decisionmaking of private and public school principals. Journal of School Choice, 11(3), 442–457, DOI: 10.1080/15582159.2017.1345235 [Cite Score 1.51 (2019)]. • Trivitt, J. R., & DeAngelis, C. A. (2020). Dollars and Sense: Calculating the fiscal effects of the Louisiana Scholarship Program. Journal of School Choice [Cite Score 1.51 (2019)].

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BOOKS (1) __ • DeAngelis, C. A., & McCluskey, N. (Eds.) (2020). School choice myths: Setting the record straight on education freedom. Washington, DC: Cato Institute. PEER-REVIEWED BOOK CHAPTERS (4) __ • DeAngelis, C. A. (2018). Do self-interested schooling selections improve society? A review of the evidence. In P. J. Wolf (Ed.), School choice: Separating fact from fiction (pp. 60-72). London, UK: Routledge. • DeAngelis, C. A., & Wolf, P. J. (2019). Improving civil society through private school choice: A review of the U.S. evidence. In P. Dixon & S. Humble (Eds.), School choice around the world: … and the lessons we can learn (pp. 71-93). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IEA Publications. • DeAngelis, C. A., & Wolf, P. J. (2019). What does the evidence say about education choice? A comprehensive review of the literature. In L. M. Burke & J. Butcher (Eds.), The Not-So-Great-Society. Washington, DC: The Heritage Foundation. • DeAngelis, C. A. (2020). Children are not widgets, so education mustn’t be left to the market. In C. A. DeAngelis & N. McCluskey (Eds.), School choice myths: Setting the record straight on education freedom. Washington, DC: Cato Institute

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GOVERNMENT TESTIMONY (2) __ • “School Vouchers are Tickets to Safer Schools,” Statement before the Federal Commission on School Safety, Lexington, Kentucky, June 26, 2018.

• “The Scientific Evidence on Private School Choice,” Testimony before the Texas Senate Education Committee, Austin, Texas, March 21, 2017.

RESEARCH INTERVIEWS / PODCASTS (67) __ • DeAngelis, C. A. (2021). Reason Foundation director of school choice Corey DeAngelis discusses districts refusing to reopen. Fox Business. • DeAngelis, C. A. (2021). Reason Foundation director of school choice Corey DeAngelis joins 'Kennedy' to discuss fight over reopening schools. Fox Business. • DeAngelis, C. A. (2021). Corey A. DeAngelis discusses Chicago students returning to class as teachers object on FNC’s The Daily Briefing with Dana Perino. Fox News. • DeAngelis, C. A. (2020). School choice advocate argues kids should be learning in person. Fox News. • DeAngelis, C. A. (2020). Next steps for the school choice movement amid coronavirus pandemic. Fox News. • DeAngelis, C. A. (2020). Are teachers unions to blame for keeping schools closed? Fox Business. • DeAngelis, C. A. (2020). Should the public school funding system change? Fox Business. • DeAngelis, C. A. (2021). Teachers unions influence school reopenings. CBS This Morning.

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DeAngelis, C. A. (2020). Senator Rand Paul talks with Corey DeAngelis about the SCHOOL Act Legislation. Educational Freedom Institute. • DeAngelis, C. A. (2021). Florida’s latest proposal to fund students instead of systems. Educational Freedom Institute. • DeAngelis, C. A. (2020). School Reopenings Have Become Political. Newsmax. • DeAngelis, C. A. (2020). Teachers Unions Team Up With Socialist Org. One America News Network. • DeAngelis, C. A. (2020). Indoctrination in Philadelphia Schools Exposed. One America News Network. • DeAngelis, C. A. (2020). RNC Takes on School Choice. One America News Network. • DeAngelis, C. A. (2020). Corey DeAngelis - The Adam Carolla Show. • DeAngelis, C. A. (2020). Schools Are Broke And Indoctrinate Kids. Timcast IRL. • DeAngelis, C. A. (2020). Corey DeAngelis Explains School Choice. Adamcast IRL. • DeAngelis, C. A. (2020). Teachers Unions Protect Their Monopoly as Parents Flee Traditional Schools. Reason TV. • DeAngelis, C. A. (2020). How COVID-19 Is Spreading School Choice. Reason TV. • DeAngelis, C. A. (2020). A Taste of Homeschooling. John Stossel. • DeAngelis, C. A. (2020). Corey DeAngelis - After Class - YOUR WELCOME. Michael Malice. • DeAngelis, C. A. (2020). Watch Elizabeth Warren Lie About Her Son's Private School Education. Reason TV. • DeAngelis, C. A. (2021). Teachers’ unions vs. education. Allie Beth Stuckey, Blaze TV. • DeAngelis, C. A. (2021). Only School Choice Can Solve Education Lockdowns. Kibbe on Liberty, Blaze TV. • DeAngelis, C. A. (2020). It’s Time to Fund Students, Not Systems. Institute for Justice. • DeAngelis, C. A. (2020). Corey DeAngelis On Return To School. Daily Caller. • DeAngelis, C. A. (2020). Corey A. DeAngelis discusses Arizona’s decision to delay reopening of schools on the Congressman Andy Biggs Show (R-AZ 5th District). Congressman Andy Biggs Show. • DeAngelis, C. A. (2020). Is school choice the right choice? The Rose Report. Caravan to Midnight. • DeAngelis, C. A. (2020). The Left's Hypocrisy on School Choice. FreedomWorks. • DeAngelis, C. A. (2020). Government schools and the freedom to choose. Words and Numbers. Foundation for Economic Education. • DeAngelis, C. A. (2020). Corey A. DeAngelis discusses school choice with Derek Gottlieb. University of Northern Colorado. • DeAngelis, C. A. (2020). Corey A. DeAngelis discusses school choice on The Big Tal

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Debunking the School Choice Movement’s Top Evangelist - Progressive.org

corey DeAngelis is an influential, if not the most influential, voice in the rightwing campaign to demonize public schools and privatize public education. The guy’s résumé hits all the bases in the libertarian gameplan. After earning a doctorate at the University of Arkansas’s education reform program (funded by the pro-school choice Walton family), DeAngelis helped found the Education Freedom Institute, became a senior fellow at the Reason Foundation, worked as an adjunct scholar at the CATO Institute, took up an appointment as a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and was hired on as a senior fellow at Betsy DeVos’s American Federation for Children.

He still holds all of those jobs, but his more common title is “school choice evangelist.” As the recent school voucher wave has surged in state after state, DeAngelis has been there to spread the word. While on tour in support of his new book, he distills the current pro-voucher argument.

In a recent talk at the Heritage Foundation, DeAngelis touched on most of the main arguments for vouchers (many of them false) and revealed a few truths about the pro-voucher strategy.

1. The Evil Unions and COVID

The villainy of the teachers union is a thread that runs through much of DeAngelis’s argument, especially related to the COVID-19 pandemic narrative. DeAngelis blames the unions (and American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten) for “fear mongering” and accuses them of extorting ransom payments by holding schools hostage. The unions, he charged, used the pandemic to empower themselves and the “government schools” that he calls “a jobs program for adults.”

There’s no recognition that teachers had a legitimate fear during the pandemic or that hundreds of educators died of COVID-19. Nor did he mention the many private and non-union charter schools that also closed their doors. Every problematic decision that he cited from pandemic times is blamed on the union, with no mention that Betsy DeVos’s Department of Education provided little or no guidance to districts facing difficult decisions in an evolving situation.

DeAngelis’s narrative argues that parents viewing Zoom school were appalled and awakened by what they saw. That oft-repeated tale stands in contrast to polls that show the vast majority of parents were satisfied with how their schools handled COVID-19. A 2022 Gallup poll found that, while the general public’s opinion of public schools is “souring,” parents’ favorable opinion of their own school matched pre-pandemic levels. The common sense conclusion to draw from this data is that people who don’t have first-hand experience with public schools are developing a low opinion of them based on some other source of information.

DeAngelis’s argument has other flaws. He claimed that the unions extracted a huge ransom from schools. But he also argued that pandemic relief funds given to schools never reached teachers and were, instead, soaked up by administrative bloat, which would seem to be a big tactical blunder on the unions’ part.

2. The Evil Unions and the Democratic Party

DeAngelis made the unusual claim that Democrats aren’t having kids, but Republicans are. But that, he said, won’t save conservatives because schools are fully “infiltrated by radical leftist union teachers.” The left uses schools as a way to control other people’s children. The Democratic Party, he added, is a fully owned subsidiary of the teachers’ union.

DeAngelis also repeated a false narrative of the National School Board Association’s supposed campaign to muzzle parents. In fall 2021, local school boards found their usually sleepy meetings had turned into wild, threatening, and even violent chaos. The NSBA turned to the Biden Administration for help,calling some of the actions “the equivalent of a form of domestic terrorism or hate crimes.” This was quickly and inaccurately cast as the Democratic administration calling parents domestic terrorists.

The resulting controversy caused the NSBA to lose some members, which DeAngelis seemed happy about. “Play stupid games, win stupid prizes,” he said.

This narrative that smears public school-friendly groups fits a general pattern of conservative attacks on groups seen as Democratic Party supporters.

3. Hyper Partisan Strategy

In 2022, Christopher Rufo, another operative from the vast rightwing think tank network, an audience at Hillsdale College that “to get universal [school] choice, you really need to operate from a place of universal public school distrust.” DeAngelis works with that idea: Create as much alarm around public schools as possible, and frame parent power in the form of vouchers as a solution rather than an abandonment of the country’s promise of a decent public education for every child.

Part of the idea is to get parents declaring, “The building’s on fire. Never mind the building or the other kids—help me rescue my child.” But as the polling data show, parents are mostly unpanicked. So the other part of the strategy is to panic everyone else so they can believe that more voucher policies will save children from the radical union indoctrinators trying to steal our children.

Follow DeAngelis enough and you may think, “This guy’s kind of extreme.” That’s by design. His old University of Arkansas mentor Jay Greene (now at the Heritage Foundation) argued two years ago that voucher fans should stop trying to make leftwing arguments for school choice (they weren’t helping) and instead lean into the culture wars.

DeAngelis calls it hyperpartisanship. Don’t try to use facts on red state politicians—use shame. He quotes Milton Friedman, who that you don’t get your favored results just by electing the right people, but by creating an atmosphere in which the wrong people find it politically advantageous to do the “right” thing. DeAngelis argues that you get bipartisanship through hyperpartisanship. Be so extreme that your opponents have to work with you.

4. Vouchers Mostly Help The Wealthy? So What?

Research increasingly shows that school vouchers mostly benefit the wealthy who already have children in private schools (which are, in turn, raising tuition). To that charge, DeAngelis offered a simple response: “So what?”

Part of his response is, “No family should be forced to pay twice.” But by that reasoning, people without any children should not pay anything into the system at all.

DeAngelis’s lack of concern over wealthy people getting voucher money is also practical, noting that Illinois lost its voucher program because it served primarily low-income persons, persons who don’t have much political juice. If the left were smart, he argues, they wouldn’t keep pointing out that wealthy people are using vouchers, because those wealthy people are politically advantaged.

In other words, universal vouchers for the wealthy is a feature, not a bug, because it gives voucher supporters like DeAngelis a group of well-connected backers.

5. Parent Power?

DeAngelis argues that all families should be able to take their dollars to the school that best suits their needs. There are two problems with that.

First, the school of their choice may not choose them. Universal voucher programs allow private schools to discriminate in a wide variety of ways, from LGBTQ+ persons to children who do not have born again family members.

Second, when a family gets a voucher, they don’t just get their own dollars; they get the tax dollars of their neighbors. Imagine a country in which parents had to go knock on doors to ask for the money needed to fully fund their school voucher. Voucher fans don’t imagine that world. Folks like DeAngelis, who disdain “government schools,” want the government to do the door-knocking for them.

Peter Greene

Peter Greene has been a classroom secondary English teacher for more than thirty-nine years. He lives and works in Northwest Pennsylvania, blogs at Curmudgucation, and is Midwest Regional Fellow with The Progressive’s Public Schools Advocate.

Education

DeAngelis received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Texas at San Antonio.^[1] He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas in education policy.^[2][3]

Career

DeAngelis was an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank.^[4] He worked for the American Federation for Children, a conservative education nonprofit group founded by Betsy DeVos, from 2021 to 2024.^[3][5]

He joined the board of directors of the Liberty Justice Center in 2022.^[6] He has appeared on Fox News multiple times to as a commentator on education policy.^[3]

DeAngelis has described school choice as "a winner for Trump".^[7][8] He contributed to the Project 2025 document, in the section discussing education and the dissolution of the U.S. Department of Education.^[9]

In 2024, he released the book The Parent Revolution.^[10]

Personal life

While in college, DeAngelis appeared in gay pornographic films.^[5] In 2024, reflecting on the experience, he said he was "lured" into participating with "promises he would be performing in fitness videos." He quit when he was asked to touch other performers.^[5] Robby Soave, reporting for Reason magazine, wrote that the reporting and subsequent events around the discovery of the adult film activity were acts of "classic cancel culture" and that "Conservatives who were happy to work with DeAngelis before but are participating in his cancellation now should reconsider. There is no tension between DeAngelis's decision, a decade ago...and his current work calling for more freedom in education."^[11]

Awards and recognition

Buckley Award – 2020^[12]
*Forbes* 30 Under 30 2021 – Education^[13][14]
Oklahoma Council of Public Affair’s 2022 Citizenship Award^[15]

References

"Economics alumnus named one of Forbes' 30 Under 30 for 2021". www.utsa.edu. 2021-01-29. Retrieved 2025-04-04.
"ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 2025-09-14.
"Corey A. DeAngelis, Cato Institute". Cato Institute. 2025-09-14. Retrieved 2025-09-14.
"Adjunct Scholars: Corey A. DeAngelis". Cato Institute. Retrieved 2025-04-04.
Riedel, Samantha (2024-10-10). "Corey DeAngelis Has Finally Admitted to His Gay Porn Past". Them. Retrieved 2025-04-04.
"Corey DeAngelis joins Liberty Justice Center board of directors". Liberty Justice Center. Retrieved 2025-04-04.
"In praise of Corey DeAngelis, a champion for school choice". Orange County Register. 2024-10-01. Retrieved 2025-04-04.
DeAngelis, Corey (2024-07-12). "Nationwide school choice: a winner for Trump — and America's kids". Retrieved 2025-04-04.
Wiggins, Christopher (2024-09-25). "Alleged gay film actor Corey DeAngelis is in Project 2025". The Advocate. Retrieved 2025-04-04.
Finne, Liv. ""The Parent Revolution" by Dr. Corey DeAngelis is an education reform thriller". www.washingtonpolicy.org. Retrieved 2025-04-04.
Soave, Robby (2024-10-01). "The firing of school choice advocate Corey DeAngelis is classic cancel culture". Reason.com. Retrieved 2025-07-26.
"Introducing Corey DeAngelis, 2020 Buckley Award Winner". America's Future. 2020-12-07. Retrieved 2025-07-26.
"Corey DeAngelis". Forbes. Retrieved 2025-04-04.
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Corey A. DeAngelis is a senior fellow at the American Culture Project. He has been labeled the “school choice evangelist” and called “the most effective school choice advocate since Milton Friedman.” He is a regular on Fox News and frequently appears in The Wall Street Journal. DeAngelis is also the executive director at Educational Freedom Institute, a senior fellow at Reason Foundation, an adjunct scholar at Cato Institute, a board member at Liberty Justice Center, and a senior advisor at Accuracy in Media. He holds a Ph.D. in education policy from the University of Arkansas. He is the national bestselling author of The Parent Revolution: Rescuing Your Kids from the Radicals Ruining Our Schools (Center Street, 2024).

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Corey A. DeAngelis - Cato Institute

Corey A. DeAngelis is a senior fellow at the American Culture Project. He has been labeled the "school choice evangelist" and called "the most effective school choice advocate since Milton ...

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Corey DeAngelis is a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation within Heritage's Center for Education Policy. He is also the executive director at the Educational Freedom Institute, a senior fellow at the Reason Foundation, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and a board member at the Liberty Justice Center.

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Corey A. DeAngelis - American Culture Project

Corey A. DeAngelis is a senior fellow at the American Culture Project and a visiting fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research. He has been labeled the "school choice evangelist" and called "the most effective school choice advocate since Milton Friedman." He is a regular on Fox News and frequently appears in The Wall Street Journal. DeAngelis is also the executive ...

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Corey DeAngelis Joins The Heritage Foundation as Research Fellow

Feb 19, 2026WASHINGTON—School choice advocate Corey DeAngelis, who President Trump has called "a FIGHTER for Parental Rights," joined The Heritage Foundation as a research fellow within Heritage's ...

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Corey received his Ph.D. in Education Policy from the University of Arkansas. He additionally holds a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Master of Arts ...Read more

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[### Control Freaks" Are "Losing Their Grip" on Education

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May 17, 2024 — Corey DeAngelis is a senior fellow at the American Federation for Children and the executive director of the Educational Freedom Institute.Read more

[### Debunking the School Choice Movement's Top Evangelist

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Jul 1, 2024 — Corey DeAngelis is an influential, if not the most influential, voice in the rightwing campaign to demonize public schools and privatize public education.Read more

[### The Parent Revolution: Q&A with Corey DeAngelis

Badger Institute

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May 9, 2024 — Corey DeAngelis went from being a doctoral student studying Milwaukee's pathbreaking experiment in school choice (and finding that it led to ...Read more

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