Most People Support School Choice. Why Won't They Vote For It?
School choice advocates work hard, but public school interest groups work harder.
School choice advocates work hard, but public school interest groups work harder.
As families continue to defect from government-managed K-12, teachers unions are tightening their squeeze on the Democratic Party.
The Parent Revolution author on lockdowns, teachers unions, and voter rage.
Of the 21 Texas House Republicans who joined Democrats to kill school choice during the special sessions, only seven survived their primaries.
Government school advocates say competition "takes money away" from government schools. That is a lie.
Inflation and expiring funds push public education into financial chaos.
Why work extra hard when you won't be able to get an A? Why try to improve when you won't get worse than a C?
In the name of safety, politicians did many things that diminished our lives—without making us safer.
Schools districts that stayed almost entirely remote significantly hindered progress, according to new data.
Plus: A listener asks the editors for big picture thoughts on United States foreign policy interventions in other nation states.
The United Federation of Teachers argues that the near-5,000 page environmental report on New York's congestion pricing plan isn't thorough enough.
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten misses a pretty big reason why families are leaving traditional public schools.
Stacy Davis Gates, the president of the Chicago Teachers Union, previously said school choice is for "racists."
Post-pandemic enrollment isn’t likely to rebound anytime soon.
Plus: Should libertarians consider employing noble lies when pitching themselves to new potential voters?
Breaking unions’ grip on schools benefits everybody who wants to guide their kids’ education.
Despite only spending a few years in the classroom, taxpayers could end up shelling out over $200,000 in a public pension for AFT president Randi Weingarten.
Here are three people whose record on COVID-19 shouldn't be forgotten.
The teachers union head honcho is trying to engage in some astonishing revisionism, claiming she actually wasn't opposed to school reopening.
Plus: A listener question scrutinizing current attitudes toward executive power
After a century of Democratic mismanagement, Chicago is hemorrhaging population, catastrophically underfunding massive pension promises, and taxing the bejeebus out of its crime-scarred residents.
The union "has an outsized impact on working families who have no other choice on where to send their children...that power, combined with a mayor who is essentially a wholly owned subsidiary, would make them a dangerous force," says one former Chicago Public Schools executive.
Public sector unions squeeze final gains out of a district that's been bleeding students yet constructing expensive new buildings for two decades.
Big corporations and entire industries constantly use their connections in Congress to get favors, no matter which party is in power.
Gov. Spencer Cox signed legislation that will provide scholarships to K-12 students who choose nonpublic education.
The constitutional amendment is an attempt to undermine the state's flat income tax system.
"There's a new special interest group in town: parents."
The school-choice scholar and activist explains why "backpack funding" is here to stay, why Texas is terrible on school choice, why CRT bans are a bad idea, and why even non-parents should care about radical reform.
In the popular imagination, teachers are compensated terribly. What about in the real world?
After a whole year of COVID-related learning loss, kids are now losing out on even more instructional time thanks to Seattle's teachers union.
Democrats and Republicans share dismay over how educators handled the pandemic and support alternatives.
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.
Educational freedom is good for everybody but unions, bureaucrats, and the education establishment.
San Diego schools chief demonstrates once again that Democratic-controlled urban districts will be the first to add COVID restrictions—and subtract students.
Virtual learning was a policy choice, and the politicians who supported it are responsible.
Arizona's new law should make alternative school arrangements more accessible than ever to families interested in educating their kids instead of funding bureaucracies.
Republicans are in danger of squandering a promising opportunity for education reform on culture war squabbles.
This is what public policy looks like when a major political party plays kissy-face with public sector unions.
Protectionist policies are why the U.S. has few physicians and high prices.
"Progressive" school COVID policies no longer welcome in the capital of progressivism
The teachers union leader thinks schools that have an 80 percent vaccination rate could maybe, possibly let students unmask.
Covid lockdowns, insane teacher-union demands, and fed-up parents are fueling historic breakthroughs in all sorts of education reform.
Charters have proved their worth by serving students failed by traditional public schools.
Plus: Looking back on the Capitol riot, library book bans, and more...
The union is preparing to strike if its demands are not met.
The president rightly points out that the federal government has sloshed billions of dollars to make K-12 schools even safer than they already were. Yet many are about to close.
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