Mad, Trump-Averse Parents Finally Had Someone To Vote Against
Politicians continue to ignore—or insult—independents at their peril.
Politicians continue to ignore—or insult—independents at their peril.
From COVID-19 closures to critical race theory, Republicans can fix schools by giving families more choice.
Parents are at their wits' end and that might cost the Democrats the governor's race.
The perpetrator did not target a random student, and he did not choose the girls bathroom because of his gender identity.
"It's really important to remember why we are talking about school boards at all: because it's about white supremacy," says Jeffrey Toobin. That's how Youngkin wins.
The media mischaracterized the senator's back-and-forth with Attorney General Merrick Garland.
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Because the agency ties mask recommendations to virus transmission rather than serious cases, its guidance is unlikely to change anytime soon.
Director Rochelle Walensky characterizes the potential unmasking of even vaccinated children as being "complacent."
One-size-fits-some policies drive parents and students to seek better education options.
For Biden, "build back better’" apparently means eyes on everything in the economy.
Newsom's opposition to a judge's order requiring vaccinations for prison staffers lays bare the hypocrisy of the governor.
Branding disparate racial outcomes as "segregation" is an effective way in Democratic polities to tear down programs some progressives don't like.
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.
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.
A bill touted as banning "critical race theory" in schools would actually ban a huge array of speech around culture, race, and sex, its sponsor says.
San Diego becomes latest school district to require teen jabs. But is it good policy?
The vaccine mandate on health care workers, ahead of the broader mandate on the rest of us, is putting America in uncharted territory.
No, law enforcement and school officials cannot order students to remove posts about exposure to the coronavirus.
When you are already convinced a policy makes sense, any evidence will do.
Media persists in pediatric scare stories even while the country's largest dataset shows tiny yet still-declining rates, including among the needlessly quarantined.
The president bemoans the incivility of politics while accusing Republicans of being "cavalier" about the potential for dead kids.
The National Education Association strong-armed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The president seems determined to anoint the agency’s director as the nation’s COVID-19 dictator, no matter what the law says.
If all sensible people agree that students should be forced to wear masks, why do other countries reject that policy?
Not everything potentially beneficial should be mandatory and not everything potentially harmful should be banned. And not every dispute about costs and benefits should be decided by the federal government.
"It’s OK that our babies may not have learned all their times tables," says Cecily Myart-Cruz. "They learned resilience."
Brooklyn elementary loses one-third of its student population and eight teachers, as the first 2021–22 enrollment numbers straggle in.
Eighteen months into the pandemic, news outlets are still selling sensationalism and burying context
The secretary of education argues that federal law makes the CDC's COVID-19 guidelines for schools mandatory.
The studies cited by the CDC do not show that preventing COVID-19 outbreaks requires forcing students to cover their faces.
Writing in The New York Times, Judith Danovitch also argues that masks inhibit nail biting and nose picking.
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DeSantis was wrong to restrict options for COVID control in Florida schools, but the push to blame mask bans is misdirection.
The evidence that the benefits outweigh the costs is not nearly as impressive as mandate enthusiasts imply.