Opinion
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PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Supreme Court Ruling in Janus v. AFSCME
Opinion -Press Release -“The Supreme Court has freed millions of American workers from manipulation by union bosses that misrepresent their interests.” - Tim Huelskamp, Ph.D. -
Government Can’t Cure Our Education Problem. Only Parental Choice Can.
Opinion -Editorial -The Founding Fathers ardently believed that the endurance of the American experiment depends on a well informed population. -
What If Children Could Move from Unsafe to Secure Schools?
Opinion -Editorial -You know we are now living in a Bizarro World when Obama-era Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is championing parental activism on a mammoth scale. -
Heartland Weekly: Fossil Fuel Benefits Outweigh Costs
Opinion -heartland-weekly, Editorial -Week of June 18, 2018 -
The Promise of Child Safety Accounts
Opinion -Editorial -To reduce school violence, we must address its actual cause. -
Chicago’s Sexual Assault Crisis Proves Kids Need More Ways to Escape Unsafe Schools
Opinion -Editorial -Reporters at the Chicago Tribune have done yeoman’s labor in the paper’s “Betrayed” series uncovering widespread sexual assault, abuse, and harassment at Chicago Public Schools (CPS) during the past decade. -
Heartland Weekly: Welcome the ‘Health Care Wars’
Opinion -Editorial -Week of June 11, 2018 -
Will Student Loan Debt Crush Alabama’s Graduates?
Opinion -Editorial -Unfortunately, many recent college graduates report putting off buying cars or homes, saving for retirement, or marriage due to student loan debt. -
Bill to Repeal Tax Reform Introduced
Opinion -U.S. Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) introduced a bill that would repeal the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and cancel student loan debt 43 million individuals owe to the U.S. Department of Education. -
Heartland Weekly: Heartland Provides Science to EPA
Opinion -heartland-weekly, Editorial -Week of June 4, 2018 -
The Promise of Child Safety Accounts
Opinion -Editorial -To reduce school violence, we must address its actual cause. -
Bureaucracy Devours Funds that Could Support Teaching
Opinion -Editorial -While teachers have walked off their jobs in several states this spring to protest what they believe to be low pay and lack of classroom resources to support teaching, armies of bureaucrat have been bickering over implementing the massive ESSA. -
Ariz. Teachers Should Strike Against Administrative Bloat
Opinion -Editorial -Arizona teachers have finally returned to their classrooms after a six-day strike over salary increases. -
Parents Deserve a Way to Get Their Children Out of Unsafe Schools
Opinion -Editorial -Roughly one in every 50 public school students in the United States was a victim of a physical assault, sexual assault, rape, attempted rape, robbery, or threatened with physical assault at school during the 2015–16 school year. -
Striking Teachers a Boon for Homeschooling
Opinion -Editorial -Parents and their children can be the big winners once freed from statist baby-sitting controls. -
Heartland Weekly: Heartland Experts Applaud Right to Try Bill
Opinion -heartland-weekly, Editorial -Week of May 21, 2018 -
Heartland Weekly: Celebrating 75 Years Of ‘The Fountainhead’
Opinion -heartland-weekly, Editorial -Week of May 14, 2018 -
Kentucky Attorney General Sues to Block Pension Reform Law
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear is asking a state circuit court judge to block a new law that would fund state employees’ pension accounts through a combination of employee contributions and funds directly from state and local taxpayers. -
Restoring School Discipline Requires Expelling the Feds
Opinion -Editorial -And it means overturning the Obama administration’s power grab and misguided surrender. -
Child Safety Accounts: Protecting Our Children With Freedom
Opinion -Editorial -On the 19th anniversary of Columbine. -
Where Oh Where Has the Presidential Fitness Council Gone?
Opinion -Editorial -The Inside-the-Beltway bureaucracy is filled with entities that burn tax dollars and emit little more than hot air. -
What School Could Be: Insights and Inspiration from Teachers Across America
Opinion -Editorial -By Ted Dintersmith -
Money and March Madness
Opinion -Editorial -March Madness recently concluded with Villanova winning the title. Given the ongoing college basketball bribery investigation, the bigger question may be whether the Wildcats will eventually vacate the title. -
The Miseducation of Our Children Should be of Great Concern
Opinion -Editorial -Our public schools went through a significant change during the Obama years, a change that was met with an unusual amount of criticism from the public, parents, and concerned education professionals.
