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.
Why should low-income children be the only ones still forced to wear masks?
In the popular imagination, teachers are compensated terribly. What about in the real world?
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.
Democrats and Republicans share dismay over how educators handled the pandemic and support alternatives.
Teachers unions and progressive politicians pushed for school closures during the pandemic. New assessments of 9-year-olds suggest a devastating learning loss.
This is a clear attempt by the administration to tamp down on opinions the adults don't like.
Mayor Muriel Bowser and the D.C. Council will force all public school students ages 12 and up to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
In the Bay Area and in Los Angeles County, authorities are quickly learning there's little public will to follow their mandates.
School choice would help families escape classroom battles by leaving the battleground.
New guidance from the Centers for Disease Control finally acknowledges that the pandemic is over for most people.
The Spanish text contains inaccurate translations of technical tax language and direct translations of phrases like "school resource officers," which could confuse voters.
Educational freedom is good for everybody but unions, bureaucrats, and the education establishment.
Despite such attacks, school choice programs find broad support from American parents.
San Diego schools chief demonstrates once again that Democratic-controlled urban districts will be the first to add COVID restrictions—and subtract students.
A 6–3 majority sees it as noncoercive and not a violation of the Establishment Clause.
So holds a federal district court, in a dispute arising from the school policy wars.
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Under Biden, Trump, and Obama, government federal spending almost doubled.
Politicians respond to often unfounded fears with aggressive laws that interfere with individual and family choices.
While that impulse is understandable, it can lead to policies that do more harm than good.
Charter schools are included in the mandate that students use facilities of their birth sex, regardless of what students and families might want.
Don't conflate mass shootings with school shootings.
Making schools more like prisons would not appreciably decrease violence.
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.
There is seldom any meaningful accountability for government incompetence.
It's not supporting “parents’ rights” to censor topics at private schools that families decide to send their children to.
"People's irrational fears are taking over these policy decisions," says one parent.
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