Opinion
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Ohio Legislature to Consider Campus Free Speech Act
Opinion -school-reform-news -Two Ohio state representatives announced they are introducing a bill to protect free speech at the state’s public colleges and universities. -
NYC Charter School Gains Equivalent to Months of More Learning, Study Finds
Opinion -school-choice-weekly, Editorial -School Choice Weekly #195 -
House, Senate Split on Trump’s Proposed Education Cuts
Opinion -school-reform-news -U.S. Senate committees voted to reject proposed cuts to the Department of Education (DOE) the Trump administration made earlier in 2017, while the House voted to accept some but not all of the proposed cuts. -
Family Combines Learning and Travel in ‘Road Schooling’
Opinion -school-reform-news -A family for whom travel is a way of life incorporates learning into their lifestyle, through a form of homeschooling they call “road schooling.” -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Revelation of Antifa Teacher Yvette Felarca’s Long History of Workplace Misconduct
Opinion -Editorial -"The shamelessness of Felarca, the Berkeley Teachers Federation, and BAMN is as terrifying as it is astounding. These people will stop at nothing—as the ‘BAMN’ name plainly states—to get their way." - Teresa Mull -
Good News About Vouchers the PDK Pollsters Failed to Disclose
Opinion -Editorial -Recent polling results show school choice gaining traction. The latest, released September 13 by Chicago-based GenForward, revealed robust support from Millennials for vouchers to help needy children choose private schools. -
Poll: Public Vastly Underestimates Average Public School Teacher Salary
Opinion -school-reform-news -The American public thinks government school teachers are underpaid, until they learn how much they actually make, a new poll has found. -
Arizona Group Gathers Signatures to Put ESA Expansion on Hold Pending Citizen Vote
Opinion -school-reform-news -Activists opposing the expansion of Arizona’s education savings account (ESA) program say they’ve collected enough signatures to put the issue on the November 2018 ballot. -
Charter School Enrollment Hits Record High
Opinion -school-reform-news -The number of U.S. students attending charter schools has hit a record high, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) reports. -
Thousands More Florida Kids Make it to College Thanks to School Choice Program
Opinion -school-choice-weekly, Editorial -School Choice Weekly #194 -
Illinois Approves Tax-Credit Scholarship Program
Opinion -school-reform-news -School choice proponents celebrated a victory in Illinois as the governor signed a budget that includes a tax-credit scholarship program. -
Militant Public School Teacher Took Students to Antifa Protests, Lied about Absences, Records Show
Opinion -Yvette Felarca has a long history of documented workplace misconduct. -
Support of ‘Bourgeois Habits’ Embroils Professors in Dispute
Opinion -school-reform-news -A recommendation to restore “bourgeois habits” is under fire at the University of Pennsylvania, revealing once again the deep conceptual divide in American campuses. -
Arkansas Parents Fight for Local Control of District
Opinion -school-reform-news -A group of Arkansas parents is demanding to know when the state will return their school district to local control. -
Study of Higher Ed’s Use of Private Firms to Develop Online Education Questioned
Opinion -school-reform-news -A new report suggests private firms that public colleges and universities use to digitize learning may not have students’ best interests in mind, but education reformers contacted by School Reform News disagree strongly. -
Less Than One-Third of DC Students Score As ‘College and Career Ready’
Opinion -school-reform-news -Scores from a national, standardized test show less than one-third of Washington, DC students are “college and career ready.” -
Florida Parents Could Face Arrest for Children’s Truancy
Opinion -school-reform-news -Rising truancy levels in Florida schools have administrators considering taking legal action against parents. -
Qatari Foundation Funds Arabic Courses in U.S. Public Schools
Opinion -school-reform-news -A foundation from Qatar has spent millions of dollars funding Arabic courses in U.S. public schools in recent years, the Wall Street Journal reports. -
K-12 Disaster Shows Need for Fundamental Reforms
Opinion -school-reform-news -The United States spends more than most developed countries on its education system, but our students rank lower than most on standardized international tests. -
Want the Feds To Run Local Public Schools? Make ‘Em Get A Permission Slip from Parents
Opinion -As the dean of a prominent graduate school of education noted in an article published several years ago: “Schools are not the major cause of the achievement gap.” -
Social Justice Warriors Glitter Bomb School Reform
Opinion -Editorial -At 8 p.m. on Friday, September 8, it was likely more TV viewers than usual were looking for escapist fare that would take their minds off Hurricane Irma, which devastated idyllic Caribbean islands and was zeroing in on Florida. -
Documentary: Better to Run Education Like a Business?
Opinion -school-reform-news -A recently released documentary film explores whether educational institutions would do better by operating like businesses. -
Senator Recommends Hard Work, Reading for Young Americans
Opinion -school-reform-news -Review of The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis—and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance, by Ben Sasse (St. Martin’s Press, 2017), 320 pp.; $16.75: ISBN-10: 1250114403, ISBN-13: 978-1250114402 -
Florida Law Empowers Residents to Contest Classroom Materials
Opinion -school-reform-news -A new Florida law empowers residents to contest objectionable public school curriculum materials in open public hearings.
