August 4, 2020
Subsidiarity Must Become a Reality in Education
The one-size-fits-all regimen for schools needs to end.
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July 31, 2020
California Cancels School
Declaring that there will be no in-person instruction this fall, Governor Gavin Newsom puts teachers’ union interests over those of children and families.
Education
July 29, 2020
Waivers, Lawsuits, Pandemic Pods and School Choice Legislation
Last week, the school wars intensified on many fronts.
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July 21, 2020
School Is Canceled in California
Governor Newsom and teachers unions nix in-person instruction for most school kids in the fall.
Education
July 7, 2020
School Choice Scores Another Win
The Supreme Court finally clears the way for students to use tax-credit scholarships to attend religious schools; the teachers unions and much of the MSM are apoplectic.
Education
June 30, 2020
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts Applaud School Choice Victory in Supreme Court
‘The U.S. Supreme Court provided a big win today for those who believe in equality under the law and who are opposed to government discrimination of religious schools.’
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March 3, 2020
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California signed a bill allowing college athletes to sign endorsement deals and hire agents.
March 2, 2020
The truth is, literacy is fast being eradicated in the world, with or without literacy campaigns.
March 2, 2020
A California bill under consideration in the state legislature would require schoolchildren to learn that humans are causing dangerous climate change in order to graduate.
February 26, 2020
Child Safety Accounts: Combating Student Bullying and School Violence by Empowering Parents, by Heartland scholars Vicki Alger, Tim Benson, and Lennie Jarratt, lays out the plan for CSAs in every state.
February 19, 2020
OECD Report finds teenagers’ choices for an “ideal career” have narrowed over the past two decades and don’t reflect the new economy.
February 18, 2020
"The growth of this event serves as an indicator of the rising American interest in families having as free a choice among schools as they have when they pick out a pair of shoes at the mall. "
February 13, 2020
A teacher at at the University of Maine is contesting representation by the Associated Faculties of the University of Maine (AFUM).
February 7, 2020
Control of the Virginia General Assembly flipped from Republican to Democrat in the November 2019 election, when Democrats won majorities in both the state Senate and the House of Delegates.
February 5, 2020
The College Fix, a news website, contacted “multiple public universities in states where campus carry is legal,” and none of those responding reported any increase in gun violence since adopting policies allowing campus carry.
February 4, 2020
President Trump in his State of the Union address made perhaps the strongest statements in support of school choice ever in that annual speech.
February 3, 2020
Week of January 27, 2020
February 1, 2020
State by state, CSAs could build on the pioneering breakthrough in school choice that Virginia Walden Ford and others achieved 15 years ago with the Opportunity Scholarships in the federal city.
February 1, 2020
Here are five reasons (out of thousands!) why NSCW keeps breaking records.
January 30, 2020
Title IX of the Higher Education Act requires colleges to investigate incidents of sexual misconduct as matters of discrimination.
January 28, 2020
Hollywood gives school choice a fair, positive representation.
January 21, 2020
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.
January 21, 2020
“Child Safety Accounts are one of the best solutions to student safety concerns and need to be implemented throughout America, not just in Colorado.” - Lennie Jarratt
January 21, 2020
S.B. 419 expands the prohibition to students in charter schools.
January 21, 2020
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.
January 14, 2020
Empire Center Posts Data on Teachers' Compensation at SeeThroughNY.net
January 14, 2020
What, then, can college readiness test scores in mathematics and reading tell us?
January 13, 2020
Week of January 6, 2020
January 8, 2020
If we all took Sen. Bernie Sanders’ education plans with the requisite grain of salt necessary, there would be a severe salt shortage.
January 7, 2020
FIRE’s Campus Due Process Litigation Tracker is a searchable database of Title IX litigation.
January 2, 2020
The new Prop. 13, very much unlike the iconic original, hurts taxpayers.
December 27, 2019
University of Michigan Eliminates Its "Bias Response Teams"
December 27, 2019
The clamor over for-profit charters has no substance whatsoever.
December 20, 2019
In addition to promoting classes on climate change, the American Medical Association (AMA) now wants medical school curricula to include classes on “health economics.”
December 17, 2019
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.
December 10, 2019
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.
December 9, 2019
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.”
December 5, 2019
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.
December 5, 2019
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.
December 1, 2019
If passed, Harris’ so-called Family Friendly Schools Act would do irreparable harm to an already failing institution: the sacred American family.
November 26, 2019
“Bargaining for the common good” is really an attempt by teacher union elites to turn America socialist.
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