Rethinking re-enrolling in public school
One trend that developed during the wave of school closures during the depths of the coronavirus was parents enrolling their one-time public school kids in alternative education programs. The question…
Court backs private schools’ rights to operate without undue state interference
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision recently that said California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s order closing both public and private schools before the beginning of the 2020-2021 school…
Teacher unions balk at vaccine requirements
Teacher unions spent the bulk of the pandemic arguing their members should not be in classrooms teaching kids in person so long as there was no vaccine available to fight…
Mr. Biden gets a “D” on education
America’s public schools had a very rough year thanks to the coronavirus. The Biden administration has pledged to get kids back into classrooms and has put tens of billions of…
School choice would diffuse the endless argument over CRT
The protests, legislative actions, and general hub-hub over the teaching of critical race theory have generated a lot of headlines, but no solutions. There’s an obvious one: school choice. And…
Endless Remote Learning has Lawmakers Looking at School Choice
State lawmakers in Kansas are turning to school choice as a way to help correct the growing problems with extended remote learning regimes. According to the Topeka Capital-Journal, parents would…
Trump Issues Executive Order to Bolster School Choice
Congress may have erected more barriers to school choice in the combined coronavirus relief/federal budget bill, but the Trump administration isn’t giving up on the idea. In an Executive Order…
Relief Bill Punishes School Choice Programs
And speaking of a line-item veto…a good argument for the idea can be found in the relief bill Congress approved and the president signed. Buried in that measure are restrictions…