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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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December 1, 2019
Kamala Harris’ ‘Family Friendly Schools Act’ is Far from Family Friendly
By Christopher Talgo
If passed, Harris’ so-called Family Friendly Schools Act would do irreparable harm to an already failing institution: the sacred American family.
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November 26, 2019
Bargaining for Socialism
By Larry Sand
“Bargaining for the common good” is really an attempt by teacher union elites to turn America socialist.
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November 25, 2019
Heartland Weekly - Witnessing Climate Thuggery in Germany
By Jim Lakely
Week of November 18, 2019
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November 18, 2019
Heartland Weekly: Green Energy Guts More Oil Market
By Jim Lakely
Week of November 11, 2019
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November 13, 2019
Carrying for the Kids
By Larry Sand
An analysis of school shootings by the U.S. Secret Service doesn’t really tell us anything new.
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November 13, 2019
Facing Enrollment Declines, Pennsylvania Freezes State University Tuition
By Brandon Best
The tuition freeze is only the second in the 36-year history of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education.
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November 11, 2019
The Chicago Teacher Union vs. Charter Schools
By Christopher Talgo
This is the second week of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) strike. It’s the second CTU strike in less than 10 years, and it’s having wide and far-ranging repercussions.
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November 11, 2019
A Tale of (Teaching in) Two Cities: Chicago, Illinois, and Charleston, South Carolina
By Christopher Talgo
CPS teachers are failing miserably in their mission. Maybe they should not be rewarded with more money, more posh positions, and all other sorts of treats.
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November 11, 2019
Florida teachers are adequately compensated, State legislators should look for other, truly effective ways to improve school outcomes.
By Tim Benson
Florida teachers are adequately compensated, State legislators should look for other, truly effective ways to improve school outcomes.
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November 11, 2019
Heartland Weekly: Warren Health Care Plan is Devastating
By Jim Lakely
Week of November 4, 2019
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November 10, 2019
Labor Department Proposes Industry-Led Apprenticeship Programs
By Ashley Bateman
Currently, the private sector is largely excluded from creating certified apprenticeship programs, which are led by unions and local and state government entities.
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November 8, 2019
Will UTLA Endorse Socialist Bernie Sanders?
By Larry Sand
The L.A. teachers union may officially support Bernie Sanders for president next week.
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November 4, 2019
Heartland Weekly: Expensive Climate Policies Sparked Chile Riots
By Jim Lakely
Week of October 28, 2019
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October 31, 2019
ALEC: Education Report Card Ranks Arizona, Florida, Indiana Highest
By Ashley Bateman
The 23rd annual edition of the Report Card on American Education by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) ranks all 50 states and the District of Columbia,
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October 30, 2019
Elizabeth Warren’s “No Teachers Union Left Behind” Campaign
By Larry Sand
Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren used to be a Republican, a Native American and pro-school choice. Now she is a Democrat, a Caucasian and anti-choice teacher union suck-up.
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October 29, 2019
Woke Evangelists Spread the Gospel
By Larry Sand
America’s newest religion is secular, and its zealous missionaries are focusing their efforts on the country’s youth.
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October 28, 2019
Heartland Weekly: Real Experts on Climate Change Advise Trump
By Jim Lakely
Week of October 21, 2019
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October 24, 2019
Teachers Unions Trapping Children in Unsafe, Unhealthy Environments
The federal government just released a report about schools that concludes what anyone who has ever ridden a public bus, used a public bathroom or stood in line at the DMV could tell you: Private is better.
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October 23, 2019
High Pay, Shorter Tenure for University Leaders
By Jane S. Shaw
The tenure of higher education leadership is getting shorter, pay greater.
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October 22, 2019
Blame Government For Rising College Tuition
By Christopher Talgo
The student loan debt bubble has reached epic proportions.
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