Opinion
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U.S. Education Department Denies Nonprofit Status to Grand Canyon University
Opinion -DOE recognition of GCU as a nonprofit would allow the school to receive federal student aid with few strings attached. -
Coloradans Support Child Safety Accounts, Poll Finds
Opinion -Most likely voters in Colorado want the government to provide Child Safety Accounts (CSAs), a survey reports. -
Report: School Safety Crisis Requires Child Safety Accounts
Opinion -A Child Safety Account (CSA) program would empower parents to determine when their child’s school is too dangerous and transfer them to a safe school immediately. -
Book Review: Exploration of Higher Ed’s ‘Tangled Web’ Makes for Profitable Reading
Opinion -Editors Todd Zywicki, a law professor at George Mason University, and Neal McCluskey, director of Cato’s Center for Educational Freedom, have compiled contributions from many of the most original thinkers in the higher education reform movement. -
Child Safety Accounts: A State-by-State Analysis
Opinion -Profiles of public school safety in each state are available from The Heartland Institute. -
Arizona Sued for Allegedly Mishandling School Choice Program
Opinion -The Arizona Department of Education is erecting barriers to keep families out of the program, say parents. -
National School Choice Week Celebrations and Survey Show Voters Support Education Options
Opinion -Support for school choice has increased significantly in the past two years. -
Profile: EdChoice Provides Research and Training to Expand School Choice
Opinion -Formerly known as the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, EdChoice is the oldest school choice advocacy group in the nation. -
U.S. Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Exclusion of Religious Schools from Scholarship Programs
Opinion -In Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, Kendra Espinoza and other parents are challenging a 2018 ruling by the Montana Supreme Court that the state’s tax credit scholarship program is unconstitutional. -
Replace Common Core with Common Sense. (Yes, It Can Be Done)
Opinion -Florida again leads the way by supporting a wide range of private and public school choices for families, a blossoming of freedom that DeSantis helped bolster as a top priority upon taking office in 2019. -
College Athletes Could Soon Profit from Commercial Deals
Opinion -Gov. Gavin Newsom of California signed a bill allowing college athletes to sign endorsement deals and hire agents. -
The Cuban Literacy Campaign of 1961
Opinion -The truth is, literacy is fast being eradicated in the world, with or without literacy campaigns. -
California Considers Imposing Climate Change Education
Opinion -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. -
Book Review: Child Safety Accounts Would Allow Immediate Transfers to Safer Schools
Opinion -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. -
High Schoolers’ Dream Careers Don’t Match Job Market Reality
Opinion -OECD Report finds teenagers’ choices for an “ideal career” have narrowed over the past two decades and don’t reflect the new economy. -
Commentary: Happiness, Thy Name Is National School Choice Week
Opinion -"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. " -
Mandatory Union Bargaining Case Appealed to U.S. Supreme Court
Opinion -A teacher at at the University of Maine is contesting representation by the Associated Faculties of the University of Maine (AFUM). -
Presidential Politics Taking Toll on Young Doctors, Study Finds
Opinion -Young physicians are increasingly aligning with left-of-center political viewpoints, according to results of a recent survey by BMJ, an international medical journal. -
Virginia House Considers Repealing Education Tax Credit
Opinion -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. -
Legal Firearms on College Campuses Don’t Increase Violence, Universities Report
Opinion -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. -
Heartland Institute Education Expert Reacts to President Trump’s State of the Union Address
Opinion -President Trump in his State of the Union address made perhaps the strongest statements in support of school choice ever in that annual speech. -
Partners in Liberty: The Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT)
Opinion -The Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) was founded in 1985 to promote a positive, alternative voice on environmental and development issues within the United States and internationally.
