Michigan's Legislature Passed a School Choice Initiative, but Supporters Fear Governor's Veto
The bill could provide much-needed assistance to students who would otherwise fall through the cracks.
The bill could provide much-needed assistance to students who would otherwise fall through the cracks.
Track and field equipment and salaries for custodians are among the goods and services school districts purchased with COVID-19 relief money. Figuring out what they did with the rest of it remains difficult.
Because the agency ties mask recommendations to virus transmission rather than serious cases, its guidance is unlikely to change anytime soon.
"This idea of intellectual debate and rigor as the pinnacle of intellectualism comes from a world in which white men dominated," says one of the cancellation's defenders.
The civil liberties group says there's a clear pattern of police misconduct involving schoolchildren.
Free speech on campus is in jeopardy. But many people on the left and the right are rising to fight for our liberal democratic values.
A conversation with the AAUP and FIRE about changes in the tenure system at state universities in Georgia
Steven Earnest thought the most trivial of incidents did not merit the university's concern.
Director Rochelle Walensky characterizes the potential unmasking of even vaccinated children as being "complacent."
While police in schools "do effectively reduce some forms of violence," they intensify the use of school discipline and arrests.
Yale Law School's diversity miseducation.
One-size-fits-some policies drive parents and students to seek better education options.
The Academic Freedom Alliance rebukes Michigan for its handling of Bright Sheng case
Wise words from the target of TrapPartyGate.
For Biden, "build back better’" apparently means eyes on everything in the economy.
The Academic Freedom Alliance responds to the provost's public email
Newsom's opposition to a judge's order requiring vaccinations for prison staffers lays bare the hypocrisy of the governor.
A few Volokh Conspirators are among the most cited legal scholars in their fields.
Administrators attempted to force an apology out of a second-year law student whose Federalist Society affiliations and use of the term "trap house" were "triggering" to his peers.
Muzzling critics of government policy will just make them angrier.
Plead guilty and get "punishments ranging from probation to nine months in prison." Insist on a trial and face decades in prison.
"after daring to express unrelated views that, although controversial, happen to be held by a majority of the American public."
Kylee McLaughlin is claiming coaches engaged in "pressure and retaliation ... due to her political beliefs and her reactions to claims of racism," because of the coaches' "political or social justice beliefs, including support for critical race theory, opposition to President Trump, and a belief that white persons like plaintiff are privileged and racist."
Branding disparate racial outcomes as "segregation" is an effective way in Democratic polities to tear down programs some progressives don't like.
What the author gets right—and wrong—about educational freedom
Bright Sheng survived the Cultural Revolution. Or so he thought.
How big is the defection from government schools in the country's largest district? That's for politicians to know, and you to find out.
Context, tradeoffs, and preferences matter—both in parenting and outside of it.
Criticism of a foreign country (or at least this foreign country) is now apparently forbidden by Emerson.
School boards want some perturbed parents branded domestic terrorists.
Normally, Randi Weingarten isn't a fan of giving parents more control over their kids' education.
The Academic Freedom Alliance rebukes MIT for capitulating to the cancel mob.
What should you do if the mob tries to cancel you?
The board of regents proposes sweeping changes that would significantly weaken tenure protections for faculty.
WBUR's On Point dedicated an hour to a discussion of the threat to academic freedom on college campuses
"New psychological research suggests that trigger warnings do not reduce negative reactions to disturbing material—and may even increase them."
A conversation with researchers at FIRE about the free speech climate on college campuses