Teachers Unions Want Wealth Taxes, Charter School Bans, and Medicare for All Before Schools Can Reopen
What does this have to do with safely educating kids in the midst of a pandemic? Not much.
What does this have to do with safely educating kids in the midst of a pandemic? Not much.
A new survey finds parents are substantially more satisfied with private and charter schools’ responses to the pandemic than they were with those of traditional public schools.
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If you can’t count on schools to perform their core educational responsibilities, why wouldn’t you look elsewhere?
The chief justice has managed to infuriate every major political faction.
The decision is an important victory against government discrimination on the basis of religion.
SCOTUS rules 5-4 in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue.
The justices weigh abortion, school choice, and federal anti-discrimination law.
The anti-voucher polemic is augmented by historical half-truths and selective omissions of countervailing evidence.
If the pandemic steers more parents away from state schools, that's probably a good thing.
After an unexpected experience with different approaches to learning, many families won’t want to return to business as usual.
Education researcher Kerry McDonald sees this crisis as an opportunity to experiment with self-directed learning.
In West Virginia, advocates have been fighting to pass the Tim Tebow Act since 2011. They're on the verge of scoring a partial legislative victory.
Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders correctly diagnose the problem, but fail to provide an adequate solution.
The democratic socialist congresswoman has lamented that the public-school system hinges on zip codes.
It's a solid budget proposal—too bad it won't go anywhere.
In his State of the Union address, the president promised to give an opportunity scholarship to a specific child who needed one.
Despite costing less to educate, Boston's charter students significantly outperform their peers in both reading and math. So why is Warren still opposed?
Administrators are squeezing out charters in the name of desegregation. The results: Parents are upset, enrollment is declining, and the schools are no more integrated than before.
To reduce conflict over classroom lessons, let people choose their kids’ education.
Education activist Andrew Campanella on the moral perversity of school-choice critics.
Political hypocrisy on school choice needs to be exposed, says Reason Foundation's Corey DeAngelis.
"I've never been to school. I grew up homeschooled, stayed homeschooled, never was not homeschooled."
It’s good to be able to pick an education that suits your kid instead of one crafted by bureaucrats.
When educators don't see their parents and students as customers, they make some really stupid decisions.
"They're trying to force us to put our children in the district school," says Stefaine D’Amico, whose three kids attend online classes that could be abolished. "That's not fair."
As a black child growing up in Arkansas, Virginia Walden Ford fought her way into segregated schools. As an adult, she fought to get her son out of failing public schools.
Conservatives want courts to consider the governments' bigoted motives in enacting anti-Catholic Blaine amendments, but not when it comes to Trump's travel ban. Liberals tend to be inconsistent in the opposite way.
What’s at stake in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue
Kendra Espinoza's daughters rely on a state-supported scholarship program to attend the school of their choice.
The New Jersey senator was also willing to buck the establishment at key moments.
A response to a query of mine, from David Hodges of the Institute for Justice (who are plaintiff's lawyers).
She fights against school choice while her kid and grandkids go to private school.
"You don't like the building? You think it's old and decaying? Then get out there and push to get a new one," she said.
Elizabeth Warren was so "#PublicSchoolProud" that she sent her son to expensive private schools for the majority of his K-12 education.
Less pandering to education unions; more choices for parents.
Such actions remind kids that government authority is stupid, arbitrary, and worth fighting at every opportunity.
It’s far from clear how any of the reforms championed by AOC and Bernie will truly challenge the public education status quo.
A new ethnic studies curriculum will teach students that "ancient mathematical knowledge has been appropriated by Western culture."
Virginia Walden Ford talks about her role in integrating schools in the 1960s and leading a movement to escape failing public schools four decades later.
How the Other Half Learns reveals how Success challenges supporters and opponents of education reform.
Robert Pondiscio's provocative new book, How the Other Half Learns, challenges supporters and opponents of education reform.
The logic behind school busing is back. And so is flight from government-operated schools.
What’s at stake in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue.
Most Democrats agreed, though Andrew Yang argued that it made more sense to fund families directly.