Don't Ban Critical Race Theory. Legalize School Choice.
"It's the taxpayers that are funding this."
"It's the taxpayers that are funding this."
The 1619 Project author thinks Terry McAuliffe had it right.
The justices heard oral arguments this week in Carson v. Makin.
As public schools push them out the door, many families are embracing change in how they educate children.
After doing the jobs of teacher, coach, and cafeteria monitor for more than a year, many parents resented being told to sit down and shut up.
As Democrats push back against more choice in schooling, the evidence in its favor keeps piling up.
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Children are too important to be entrusted to unions or government monopolies.
“Free” preschool will cost the government a lot of money.
Parents are at their wits' end and that might cost the Democrats the governor's race.
Calling voters racist is an odd closing argument, let alone an effective response to concerns over schools.
The governor’s race could be an opening for the culture war, or an opportunity for school choice policies that offer just about everybody what they want.
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The bill could provide much-needed assistance to students who would otherwise fall through the cracks.
One-size-fits-some policies drive parents and students to seek better education options.
Muzzling critics of government policy will just make them angrier.
What the author gets right—and wrong—about educational freedom
Normally, Randi Weingarten isn't a fan of giving parents more control over their kids' education.
Charter enrollment grew by 7 percent last school year, double the prior year.
"If you would have told me when I was 12 years old, I would run this organization, I would have said you were crazy."
It's time for some out-of-box thinking about school reform. What if we let the market do more work and relied on the state for less?
Families looking for alternatives to battlefields of the culture war have a bonanza of educational options.
Leading candidates Larry Elder, Kevin Faulconer, and Kevin Kiley cite homelessness, crime, housing costs, and energy shortages as evidence that one-party rule is failing the Golden State.
"It’s OK that our babies may not have learned all their times tables," says Cecily Myart-Cruz. "They learned resilience."
DeSantis was wrong to restrict options for COVID control in Florida schools, but the push to blame mask bans is misdirection.
Private schools can stay open even when pandemic rules shut government institutions, court says.
Government domination of education has bred distrust and conflict.
A new law allows cash-strapped districts to send students to private religious schools.
Religious families aren’t the only ones seeking escape from endless curriculum wars.
Democrat-heavy districts remain most likely to stay partly closed.
"It is reasonable and appropriate for curriculum to be informed by academic frameworks..."
We don't have a gridlock problem. We have a spending problem.
The semantics battle obscures reasonable objections to antiracist diversity seminars.
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Guide your children’s education and let your opponents teach their own kids.
It's wrong for politicians to suppress important debates in schools. Instead let families have more control of their kids' educations.
Yes, that very same Randi Weingarten, the teachers union president who has fought to keep children out of the classroom for the last year.
Only students support extending the power to penalize speech, raising concerns about what they’re learning in school.
The new framework aims to keep everyone learning at the same level for as long as possible.
Unresponsive government institutions fuel state-level measures to help parents and children pick learning models that suit them.
Giving kids more educational options would help produce the long-term change activists want.
Kentucky is now the 28th state with some form of school choice.
Gov. Andy Beshear blocked a bill that would have allowed families to cross district lines in pursuit of better schools.
Not only are more families picking alternatives to public schools but, by and large, they like them.
School closures are the best thing to happen to educational choice.
Public schools can barely teach kids at all, but their defenders don’t want you trying alternatives.
Abusive teachers’ unions and floundering bureaucrats make do-it-yourself education pretty attractive.
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