San Francisco Sought to Open High Schools for a Day in Order to get Millions From the State
San Francisco’s public school board has come under withering criticism from parents for keeping many schools closed and slow-walking reopenings for others despite widespread vaccinations and declining coronavirus cases. Things…
Lessons Learned From Schools That Have Re-Opened
A number of states and local public school districts are still wrestling with how and when to re-open their doors to full-time, in-person instruction. The nation’s largest public school teachers…
CDC’s School Reopening Plan is More of the Same
The bottom-up pressure to fully reopen the nation’s public schools was supposed to get a boost from new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). What emerged from the…
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…
Parents Fighting the Education Status Quo
Lots of ink and even more chatter is being focused on the mini-rebellion of individual investors against hedge funds. Some hail the fight as the little guy finally holding the…
Schools May Not be as Big a Spreader of Coronavirus as Previously Feared
Whether schools should remain open, closed, or a little of both has been an ongoing controversy since the coronavirus pandemic erupted last year. But some data suggest schools aren’t the…
Schools Suing Parents for Textbook Fees, and Court Costs, During a Pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has scrambled public school instruction, making it difficult for kids to learn, teachers to teach, and parents to manage it all. But in Indiana, there’s one thing…
Running Empty Buses to Avoid Layoffs
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. Fairfax County, Virginia runs the state’s largest public school system. Students have begun the fall semester as they finished the spring: online. One…