The First Night of the RNC Offered a Full-Throated Defense of School Choice
Republicans have turned away from freedom in many ways during the Trump era, but at least they've embraced school choice at the national level.
Republicans have turned away from freedom in many ways during the Trump era, but at least they've embraced school choice at the national level.
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We should fund students instead of systems.
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All the important highlights from the 2,033-page document released by the Department of Education.
"Nothing Betsy DeVos has done since she took office will have a more lasting effect on people's lives than this."
It's a solid budget proposal—too bad it won't go anywhere.
Education activist Andrew Campanella on the moral perversity of school-choice critics.
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.
Her plan isn't perfect, but she's right that the system is broken. Congress should act to fix it.
The Department of Education alleges the universities' research is discriminatory against certain religions.
The education secretary is wrongly getting dragged for zeroing out a gratuitous budget item.
Bob Luddy, who made a fortune in commercial kitchen ventilation, is opening Thales College in North Carolina later this year.
They require that "due process protections are in place for individuals accused of sexual harassment."
Reason has more details on the new rules, which would mandate cross-examination in disputes.
The Department of Education's data on school shootings is riddled with inaccuracies.
The Trump administration is right to push the streamlining various parts of the executive branch.
Changing the name plates on the front of Washington's many brutalist office buildings won't inject more competition or motivation into those departments.
Bryan Caplan vs. Edward Glaeser at the Soho Forum.
Trump's secretary of education says she's "undeterred."
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos might rescind Obama-era guidance on school discipline.
Court rejects Title IX complaint against University of Mary Washington over failure to ban the social-media platform from its campus
The "neurobiology of trauma" on campus is based more on social-justice goals than science. We've been here before.
Denied a hearing and suspended, the recent Rollins College graduate is now suing.
Grant Neal's girlfriend told school administrators repeatedly that he didn't rape her. They expelled him anyway.
As Columbia University settles a case with a student found innocent of sexual assault, the Secretary of Education is rolling back a bad Obama-era policy.
Citing a backlog of complaints, the Title IX enforcement office pledges to prioritize case resolution over fishing expeditions.
Betsy DeVos's modest insurgency against failing public schools should be applauded.
Adam Kissel has a history of advocating for free speech and due process.
Wary libertarian enthusiasm greets Donald Trump's ambitious regulatory reform agenda
Northwestern University's Laura Kipnis on feminism, witch trials, and sexual paranoia at American universities.
Donald Trump's newest executive order could be a step in that direction.
The bipartisan Campus Accountability and Safety Act could cost colleges millions for failure to follow complex and costly new sexual-misconduct policies.
Calculating how preponderance of the evidence falsely 'convicts' the innocent on campus.
An innocent person faces a 20 percent probability of being found guilty under a preponderance of the evidence standard.
Trump to withdraw Obama administration's guidance, but that doesn't actually stop case moving forward.
The system was developed by people attempting to get away from government control.
Supported by Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott, opposed by Shirley Chisholm and Jerry Brown—the department has a long history of scrambling political alliances.
Supporters of the bill say current rules infringe on students' due process rights.
'Betsy DeVos's policies will kill children. That is not an exaggeration in any sense.'
Ignoring this populist movement does not help the left with families.
Four federal departments and one agency that could be shut down first.
Trump's would-be Education Secretary isn't an extremist-her critics are.