3 Unsettled Questions Regarding the Constitutionality of Public Funding of Religious Schools
The charter school movement has seen many recent Supreme Court victories widening their scope to faith-based education, but some ambiguities remain.
The charter school movement has seen many recent Supreme Court victories widening their scope to faith-based education, but some ambiguities remain.
California's poorly served public school students need more than a few more dollars diverted to tutoring programs. They need an escape hatch.
Students should be able to peacefully protest events, but they shouldn't disrupt a speaker or assault attendees.
Parents in Arizona have already proven themselves capable of holding schools accountable.
Schools were already staffed at record levels even before COVID-19, when enrollment fell by nearly 1.3 million students.
Despite the popular narrative, Millennials have dramatically more wealth than Gen Xers had at the same age, and incomes continue to grow with each new generation.
I shouldn't have to spend so much money on an accountant every year. But I don't really have a choice.
Plus: A listener asks the editors for big picture thoughts on United States foreign policy interventions in other nation states.
These aren't outright bans. But they still can chill free speech and academic freedom.
"Governors don't get to print money," the former Arizona governor tells Reason.
This approach to doing so poses serious academic freedom problems
This is the film based on the bestselling book by FIRE's Greg Lukianoff and Prof. Jonathan Haidt (NYU).
Don’t let culture war politics overwhelm a commitment to the facts.
This new wave of forgiveness shows how Biden can keep canceling student loans, even after his defeat at the Supreme Court last year.
Misled by a bad law, graduate students are drowning in debt.
Justice Alito wrote a strong dissent to denial of certiorari. The issues the case raises are likely to recur. In the meantime, the lower court ruling in the case sets a dangerous precedent.
The administrator, at Texas A & M University Texarkana, alleges he was pushed out because of his race, and because he had declined to discipline a student who "had used the word 'Nigga' in [a classmate's] presence while on a trip to the mall."
Harvard should pick someone with academic integrity as its next president.
The plan is the Biden administration's latest effort to enact large-scale student loan forgiveness.
More like total eclipse of the fun.
Persistent technical difficulties have made completing the financial aid form nearly impossible for many applicants.
Many who see overdraft protection as preferable to other short-term credit options will have fewer choices as some banks decide the service isn't worth offering anymore.
An open letter released today from the AFA, HxA, and FIRE
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After placing a pro-Palestinian front page over Northwestern's student newspaper, two students face "theft of advertising services" charges.
Misled by a bad law, graduate students are drowning in debt.
Several large public universities are getting multimillion dollar budget cuts.
A new study sparks hope that the historic declines in students' reading and math performance following the pandemic may not be permanent.
My new article on the First Amendment and controversial faculty speech
given that the University rejected the Chancellor of the Board of Governors' call for the SJP chapter to be deactivated.
Universities should not be in the political activism business
An excellent piece in the N.Y. Times Magazine by Prof. Stephen Carter (Yale Law).
“The safest course of action in terms of a possible violation of the NCO would be to refrain from writing or to be interviewed for articles that mention the name of the student with whom you have an NCO (or to retract them if that’s possible).”
In states like Utah, microschools are up against burdensome building regulations.
According to a report from Good Jobs First, St. Louis' public schools took the brunt of the loss at nearly 65 percent of the total.
Gov. Katie Hobbs hates that families are guiding their own children’s schooling.
Stricter regulation of homeschooling families will just lead to harassment from government.
A recent story out of the University of Wisconsin Law School offers an opportunity to consider the potential tensions between mandatory Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) trainings and academic freedom, particularly in legal education.
Kids have disappeared from public schools, with most opting for a range of alternatives.
The plan will help provide “university-sponsored visas that allow them to continue performing and commercializing research without leaving the state.”
Through changes to income-driven repayment plans, the Department of Education is set to enact debt relief for thousands of borrowers.
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