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January 21, 2020
Happiness, Thy Name is National School Choice Week
School Choice Week showcases the interest in school choice and pent-up demand for more of it. Whether supply meets that demand will depend in part on decisions in the political and legal realms.
Education
January 21, 2020
Power to the Parents!
The abusive education monopoly must go.
Education
January 21, 2020
California Prevents Public Schools from Suspending K-8 Students for ‘Willful Defiance’
S.B. 419 expands the prohibition to students in charter schools.
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Education
January 21, 2020
Texas Takes Control of Houston Public Schools
Teachers unions and members of the HISD Board of Trustees, who were locally elected, oppose the state takeover, but the Texas Education Agency (TEA) is appointing a new superintendent and community board for the district.
Environment
January 21, 2020
Heartland Weekly: Crop Yields Contradict Climate Doom
Week of January 13, 2020
Education
January 14, 2020
One in Four New York State Teachers Outside NYC Get Six-Figure Salaries
Empire Center Posts Data on Teachers' Compensation at SeeThroughNY.net

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Education
January 21, 2020
Happiness, Thy Name is National School Choice Week
By Robert G. Holland
School Choice Week showcases the interest in school choice and pent-up demand for more of it. Whether supply meets that demand will depend in part on decisions in the political and legal realms.
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January 21, 2020
Power to the Parents!
By Larry Sand
The abusive education monopoly must go.
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January 21, 2020
California Prevents Public Schools from Suspending K-8 Students for ‘Willful Defiance’
By Brandon Best
S.B. 419 expands the prohibition to students in charter schools.
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January 21, 2020
Texas Takes Control of Houston Public Schools
By Ashley Bateman
Teachers unions and members of the HISD Board of Trustees, who were locally elected, oppose the state takeover, but the Texas Education Agency (TEA) is appointing a new superintendent and community board for the district.
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January 21, 2020
Heartland Weekly: Crop Yields Contradict Climate Doom
By Billy Aouste
Week of January 13, 2020
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January 14, 2020
One in Four New York State Teachers Outside NYC Get Six-Figure Salaries
By Ashley Herzog
Empire Center Posts Data on Teachers' Compensation at SeeThroughNY.net
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January 14, 2020
How Common Core-Aligned Tests Are Turning College Students Into High School Students
By Sandra Stotsky
What, then, can college readiness test scores in mathematics and reading tell us?
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January 13, 2020
Heartland Weekly: Climate Alarmists Winning the War of Words
By Billy Aouste
Week of January 6, 2020
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January 8, 2020
Bernie's Education Plans are Bonkers
By Christopher Talgo
If we all took Sen. Bernie Sanders’ education plans with the requisite grain of salt necessary, there would be a severe salt shortage.
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January 7, 2020
Organization Tracks Lawsuits Challenging Colleges’ Sexual Misconduct Policies
By Ashley Bateman
FIRE’s Campus Due Process Litigation Tracker is a searchable database of Title IX litigation.
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January 2, 2020
Taxing Californians’ Patience
By Larry Sand
The new Prop. 13, very much unlike the iconic original, hurts taxpayers.
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December 27, 2019
Legal Challenge to Campus Speech Codes Settled
By Bonner R. Cohen
University of Michigan Eliminates Its "Bias Response Teams"
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December 27, 2019
The Faux Nonprofit Prophets
By Larry Sand
The clamor over for-profit charters has no substance whatsoever.
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December 20, 2019
AMA Calls for Health Economics Classes in Medical Schools
By AnneMarie Schieber
In addition to promoting classes on climate change, the American Medical Association (AMA) now wants medical school curricula to include classes on “health economics.”
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December 17, 2019
Innovative Micro-Schools Help Meet Demand for Education Alternatives
By Ashley Bateman
As private school costs increase and more Catholic schools—known historically for lower tuition costs than secular academies—close, the education marketplace is responding with innovative options.
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December 10, 2019
Benjamin Rush Institute Exposes Medical Students to Free Market Medicine
By Rebecca Kiessling
Editor’s note: Each month, Health Care News will be profiling a national and state-based public policy organization working to advance freedom in the health care market so that consumers and providers can all be winners.
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December 9, 2019
American Students Are Failing; You Can Thank Public Schools
By Teresa Mull
New standardized test scores have been released, and U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos called the results of the federally mandated National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) exam “devastating.”
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December 5, 2019
In Restoring Civics, Start with the Basics
By Robert G. Holland
There is a lot to be said for students having the opportunity to write research papers or develop projects independently. But first they should have a base of knowledge from which to proceed.
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December 5, 2019
Five Reasons to be Thankful for School Choice
By Teresa Mull
Education is such a fundamental element of American life, we often take it for granted. Yet the fundamental nature of education is precisely what makes it the political policy every citizen should care about.
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December 2, 2019
Heartland Weekly: Americans Don’t Want a Socialism
By Jim Lakely
Week of November 25, 2019
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