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.
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.
By forcing kids to learn from home, teachers unions did more to promote the need for radical K-12 education reform than a million activists.
The Stolen Year acknowledges the public schools' COVID failures but refuses to hold anyone responsible.
School choice would help families escape classroom battles by leaving the battleground.
Enemies of educational freedom are using inane regulations to target learning pods.
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.
Virtual learning was a policy choice, and the politicians who supported it are responsible.
The leading libertarian legal theorist talks about worrying trends at the Supreme Court as a conservative majority takes hold.
Arizona's new law should make alternative school arrangements more accessible than ever to families interested in educating their kids instead of funding bureaucracies.
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The article explains why the Supreme Court was right to hold that state voucher programs can’t discriminate against “sectarian” religious schools and addresses various objections.
“A State violates the Free Exercise Clause when it excludes religious observers from otherwise available public benefits,” the Supreme Court held.
The decision is an important victory for both the principle of nondiscrimination and parents and students seeking better educational opportunities.
States may not "exclude some members of the community from an otherwise generally available public benefit because of their religious exercise,” says SCOTUS.
With educational freedom at stake, these midterm elections could defy the odds and be constructive.
Big rulings are coming soon on school choice, guns, and abortion.
Charter schools are included in the mandate that students use facilities of their birth sex, regardless of what students and families might want.
Republicans are in danger of squandering a promising opportunity for education reform on culture war squabbles.
Families should be able to put energy into educating kids rather than fighting over what is taught.
The answer for students who feel unwelcome or underserved where they are is to expand the schooling market.
Somebody tell Tim James that his political party actually supports school choice.
It's not supporting “parents’ rights” to censor topics at private schools that families decide to send their children to.
State-level "gag orders" on teaching certain texts and ideas are terrible and utterly predictable in a one-size-fits-all K-12 educational system.
School enrollment based solely on geography must come to an end.
You are not for school choice or parents’ rights when you try to ban race and LGBT subjects in private education.
A major school choice bill is sitting in legislative limbo.
Gov. Spencer Cox supports school choice but will only sign the bill once Utah pays teachers more than any other state.
Charter schools thrived on the freedom to make quick decisions and appeal to like-minded families.
Under H.B. 1557, only the most conservative parents will decide what everybody else’s kids will learn about sexual orientation or gender identity.
Nearly 90 gag-order bills would ban schools from teaching the grisly particulars of American history. This activist is fighting against the censorship and for school choice.
The education pioneer’s authoritarian personality was at odds with her commitment to children’s independence.
From school shutdowns to insane teachers union demands to frustrated parents, the pandemic has made radical education reform a reality.
But culture war political fights over race and sex education threaten their educational freedom.
But parental rights laws and anti–critical race theory bills can’t end the curriculum wars. Only school choice can.
The governor's recognition of North Carolina School Choice Week is a welcome gesture, but school choice advocates say his words don't match his actions.
In a new poll, more than two-thirds of parents say they have favorable views about homeschooling, and those numbers are on the rise.
Small-is-beautiful education avoids conflicts that plague larger one-size-fits-few institutions.
Covid lockdowns, insane teacher-union demands, and fed-up parents are fueling historic breakthroughs in all sorts of education reform.
Long before the pandemic, millions of students were completing their education at home. I was one of them.
Biden wants billions for universal preschool, but a new study finds such programs could be harmful for children.
Inflation-adjusted revenue per student in public schools is up 68 percent in the Empire State—and 24 percent nationally—over the past two decades. Time for School Choice.
Charters have proved their worth by serving students failed by traditional public schools.
The West Virginia Hope Scholarship lets parents use their kids' per-pupil funding wherever and however works best for them.
School choice is the best alternative for parents who are reasonably frustrated with this insanity.
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