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.
Plus, what's going down in the Libertarian Party?
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.
Why not give parents the money to send kids to a private school that is actually open?
Unplanned and maybe even unwanted, coronavirus-fueled experiences with DIY education impress more people than they turn off.
We literally can't afford it.
The silver lining to disastrous education lockdowns? A massive increase in support for all sorts of student-centered reforms.
First the union invaded, now it refuses to leave.
The pandemic showed me how many choices I have about my kids’ education. Everyone should have the same options.
Black families need control of their children's K-12 education, says the Minnesota activist. The past year's lockdowns might just make that happen.
There’s no reason to fight over the content of your kids’ lessons when you can choose your own.
Black education activist Chris Stewart is done with liberal falsehoods and conservative failure to deliver reform.
If passed, new laws will give parents more control over how their education dollars are spent.
Plus: Church reopening case hits a wall, Supreme Court weighs in on Texas abortion law, and more...
Making it easier for families to fund their preferred education options will be a lot more effective than throwing a big bribe to teachers unions.
Union leaders shame parents, arguing that equity gaps will widen if parents pull their children out of public schools.
"That behavior was unconscionable for our country."
Even as the pandemic has exposed the desperate need for disruptions to the calcified public school system, Congress just voted to restrict some of the very creativity that's sorely needed.
Pandemic chaos is driving families to flee government institutions in search of education that better suits their needs.
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Flexible education crafted to meet family needs is destined to prevail over failing government schools.
Families are leaving traditional schools in record numbers for pods, homeschooling, charters, and more.
Low-income kids were most likely to get online-only instruction, according to Pew.
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos on schooling during COVID-19, the future of higher ed, and why her cabinet department probably shouldn't exist at all
Trump didn't offer much in terms of concrete solutions either.
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