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Voucher Program Overregulation Homogenizes Schools, Study Finds
Opinion -school-reform-news -Overregulating voucher programs reduces diversity of school options, a new study has found. -
Trump Commits $200 Million to Expand STEM Education
Opinion -school-reform-news -President Trump signed a memorandum to devote hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to expanding STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) and computer science education in schools across the nation. -
Require Citizen Naturalization Test for Graduation, Organization Urges
Opinion -school-reform-news -An initiative to require students across the nation to pass a civics exam in order to graduate from high school is making headway in the states. -
Academic Journal Withdraws Article on Colonialism
Opinion -school-reform-news -With college campuses having been wracked by protests against conservative speakers in the past year, the fight against free speech has taken a new turn with the withdrawal of a column in a scholarly journal upon threats of violence against the editor. -
Rumors About Betsy DeVos’ Resignation Squelched
Opinion -school-choice-weekly, Editorial -School Choice Weekly #199 -
Poll: Millennials Strongly Support School Choice
Opinion -school-reform-news -A new poll confirms millennials strongly support school choice. -
New College Ranker Claims Others Have Bias Toward Wealthy
Opinion -school-reform-news -A new college ranking system reflects increasing complaints about previous listings as being biased toward the wealthy. -
Dozens of Children Disenrolled from School Over Gender Presentations
Opinion -school-reform-news -Parents disenrolled more than 70 children from a California charter school after the school board disallowed them from opting their children out of lessons on gender identity. -
Pennsylvania Bill Would Tie Teacher Layoffs to Performance, Not Seniority
Opinion -school-reform-news -A bill in the Pennsylvania General Assembly would end the practice of automatically laying off teachers in order of seniority and instead require districts to rely on state evaluations. -
Iowa Proposes Using Student Opinions in ESSA Plan
Opinion -school-reform-news -The Iowa state government will incorporate feedback from a student survey to determine which public schools need improvement under the state’s proposed Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) plan. -
South Carolina on Brink of Expanding School Choice Program
Opinion -school-choice-weekly, Editorial -School Choice Weekly #198 -
How a Teachers Union is Protecting a Violent Antifa Radical
Opinion -Editorial -Yvette Felarca is the militant Berkeley Unified School District teacher whose mugshot has been appearing in the news a lot lately for her violent behavior at Antifa-led riots. -
High Court Could Boost School Choice
Opinion -Editorial -All the available evidence suggests a Supreme Court majority is now poised to deliver a death blow to a 40-year-old precedent that has allowed public-sector unions for decades to pick the pocketbooks of non-members to pay the costs of union bargaining. -
At Least Ten Percent of Public School Kids Attend a Charter in More Than 200 Districts
Opinion -school-choice-weekly, Editorial -School Choice Weekly #197 -
Why Do College Students Want Freedom From Speech?
Opinion -Editorial -Responding to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ announcement the Trump administration will begin siding with plaintiffs in challenging public universities that fail to uphold freedom of speech. -
ESAs Present Lawmakers with a Golden Opportunity to Help New Hampshire Kids
Opinion -Editorial -In April, the New Hampshire House of Representatives had a golden opportunity to do something heroic for Granite State kids by passing a universal education savings account (ESA) bill, but it flinched at the last minute and “retained” it in committee -
Military Families Want More Flexibility in Education, Survey Finds
Opinion -school-choice-weekly, Editorial -School Choice Weekly #196 -
How to Make Elite Colleges Less Elitist
Opinion -Editorial -The facts are pretty damning: The Ivy League and other selective schools are bastions of privileged students. -
High-Stakes Teacher Evaluations Benefit DC Students, Study Shows
Opinion -school-reform-news -High-stakes teacher evaluations are benefiting students in the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS), a new study reports. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts Reacts to State University of New York Charter Committee Allowing Some Charter Schools to Certify Their Own Teachers
Opinion -Press Release -"Alternative certification pathways should be adopted for all public schools, not just SUNY charters" - Lennie Jarratt -
Maine Homeschooling Grew by 35 Percent in Ten Years
Opinion -school-reform-news -In keeping with national trends, increasing numbers of Mainers are moving their children out of traditional schools and into the home. -
Texas District Institutes No-Homework ‘Family Nights’
Opinion -school-reform-news -A Texas school district has marked off six “family nights” on its 2017-18 school calendar, at parents’ request. -
Later School Start Times Would Bring Billions in Economic Benefits, Study Finds
Opinion -school-reform-news -Starting school later in the morning would improve the U.S. economy by billions of dollars per year, a new analysis has found. -
Book Analyzes Campus War Against Freedom of Thought
Opinion -school-reform-news -Review of No Campus for White Men: The Transformation of Higher Education into Hateful Indoctrination, by Scott Greer (WND Books, March 14, 2017), 240 pp.; $11.52 on Amazon.com: ISBN-10: 1944229620, ISBN-13: 978-1944229627
