Average ACT Scores Drop to Their Lowest Point in Three Decades
"The score decline really reflects students' lack of access to a rigorous high school curriculum," says the senior director for state partnerships at ACT.
Public schools
A School District Cancels A Beloved Halloween Parade Over Stranger-Danger Nonsense
School officials also cited concerns that the parade excludes children whose families do not celebrate Halloween, or whose parents cannot attend the event.
A Top-Ranked High School Got Rid of Merit-Based Admissions. Then Students' Grades Tanked.
Data show that students admitted by lottery to San Francisco's Lowell High School are academically faring much worse than their peers.
Education Freedom Wins Big in Arizona
Instead of being attached to public schools, funding follows students to learning options they choose.
A Belated Vindication for School Reopeners
The Stolen Year acknowledges public school COVID failures but refuses to hold anyone responsible.
Public Schools Experiencing 'White Flight'
Whether in response to pandemic closures or policy changes made in the name of "equity," people classified as white are fleeing government-run K-12 in startling numbers.
School Choice Is Winning in Arizona—and Beyond
"There's a new special interest group in town: parents."
Corey DeAngelis: How COVID Has Changed the Face of Education Forever
The school-choice scholar and activist explains why "backpack funding" is here to stay, why Texas is terrible on school choice, why CRT bans are a bad idea, and why even non-parents should care about radical reform.
Judge Ends Federal Vaccine and Mask Mandates for Head Start School Programs
Why should low-income children be the only ones still forced to wear masks?
The (Partial) Myth of the Poorly Paid Public School Teacher
In the popular imagination, teachers are compensated terribly. What about in the real world?
Seattle Public School Teachers on Strike, Since 6-Figure Pay Isn't Good Enough
After a whole year of COVID-related learning loss, kids are now losing out on even more instructional time thanks to Seattle's teachers union.
Despite Polarization, Americans Agree: School Learning Losses Are a System Failure
Democrats and Republicans share dismay over how educators handled the pandemic and support alternatives.
New Data Show COVID School Closures Contributed to Largest Learning Loss in Decades
Teachers unions and progressive politicians pushed for school closures during the pandemic. New assessments of 9-year-olds suggest a devastating learning loss.
Nebraska High School Shuts Down 54-Year-Old School Newspaper After Students Publish LGBT Pieces
This is a clear attempt by the administration to tamp down on opinions the adults don't like.
40 Percent of D.C.'s Black Teens Will Soon Be Barred From School Because They Aren't Vaccinated
Mayor Muriel Bowser and the D.C. Council will force all public school students ages 12 and up to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Elementary School Calls Cops on 4-Year-Old for Violating Mask Mandate
In the Bay Area and in Los Angeles County, authorities are quickly learning there's little public will to follow their mandates.
Americans Increasingly See Political Polarization Overtaking Public Education
School choice would help families escape classroom battles by leaving the battleground.
CDC No Longer Recommends Social Distancing, Masks in Schools Unless Spread Is High
New guidance from the Centers for Disease Control finally acknowledges that the pandemic is over for most people.
Florida County Approves Bad Spanish Translation of Property Tax Ballot Measure
The Spanish text contains inaccurate translations of technical tax language and direct translations of phrases like "school resource officers," which could confuse voters.
COVID Taught More Than 1 Million Parents the Value of School Choice
Educational freedom is good for everybody but unions, bureaucrats, and the education establishment.
Texas Lieutenant Governor Candidate Says 'Vouchers Are for Vultures'
Despite such attacks, school choice programs find broad support from American parents.
Big-City Public Schools, Facing a 'Massive Hemorrhaging of Students,' Are Reimposing Mask Mandates
San Diego schools chief demonstrates once again that Democratic-controlled urban districts will be the first to add COVID restrictions—and subtract students.
Supreme Court Says High School Coach's Postgame Prayers Are Protected Free Speech
A 6–3 majority sees it as noncoercive and not a violation of the Establishment Clause.
Accessing Google Drive, Using Inadvertently Revealed Long URL, Can Violate Computer Fraud & Abuse Act
So holds a federal district court, in a dispute arising from the school policy wars.
Ohio Teachers Can Carry Guns With 24 Hours of Training
Plus: progressive groups imploding, stock and crypto markets plunging, and more.
New York City Toddlers Can Finally Take Off Their Masks
Plus: trans teens, trouble at the FTC, and more...
Biden Says the Deficit Is Falling. Actually, It's Rising.
Under Biden, Trump, and Obama, government federal spending almost doubled.
Anti-LGBT Panics Are Bad for Everyone's Liberty
Politicians respond to often unfounded fears with aggressive laws that interfere with individual and family choices.
Politicians Should Resist the Urge To 'Do Anything' in Response to School Shootings
While that impulse is understandable, it can lead to policies that do more harm than good.
Oklahoma Governor Attacks School Choice With Trans Bathroom Panic Law
Charter schools are included in the mandate that students use facilities of their birth sex, regardless of what students and families might want.
There Have Been 13 Mass School Shootings Since 1966, Not 27 This Year
Don't conflate mass shootings with school shootings.
School Cops and TSA-Style Security Probably Won't Prevent Tragedies Like the Uvalde Shooting
Making schools more like prisons would not appreciably decrease violence.
Biden Lays Blame for Uvalde School Shooting on Gun Lobby
There's much we don't know about the shooting in Texas that left at least 21 people dead, including 19 children. Nevertheless, Joe Biden knows exactly who to blame and how to stop future shootings.
Jerome Powell, Who Wildly Misjudged Inflation, Is Overwhelmingly Reconfirmed as Fed Chair
There is seldom any meaningful accountability for government incompetence.
