Opinion
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New Hampshire Bill Prohibiting Forced Use of Common Core Passes Senate
Opinion -school-reform-news -A bill to prevent the state government from requiring schools to use the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) passed the New Hampshire Senate. -
Arizona Bill to Expand ESAs to All Public School Students Advances to Full Senate
Opinion -school-reform-news -A bill to expand Arizona’s existing education savings account (ESA) program to all public school children in the state has passed out of committee and awaits a vote by the entire Senate. -
Trump Administration Reverses Obama Transgender Bathroom Edict
Opinion -school-reform-news -The Trump administration announced it will reverse a set of guidelines the Obama administration issued to schools regarding transgender students’ use of bathrooms and locker rooms. -
Entire Campus Should Be Safe Space for Free Speech
Opinion -Editorial -A "culture of censorship" has come down upon universities across the United States, destroying any hope for engaging ideas in exchange for safe spaces. -
Preet Bharara Is Further Proof Colleges Favor The Left, Discriminate Against Conservatives
Opinion -Editorial -There's no doubt that the recent hiring of Preet Bharara is indicative of the liberal bias in academia today. -
Twittergated: When Technology Turns on One of Its Own
Opinion -Editorial -Irony is delicious when delivered in less than 140 characters. -
Oklahoma Fails to Move ESA Bills Forward
Opinion -school-reform-news -Bills that would establish education savings accounts (ESAs) in Oklahoma failed to advance during this year’s legislative session. -
California Teachers Sue Over Mandatory Union Fees
Opinion -school-reform-news -A group of public school teachers in California is suing the districts that employ them and one of the state’s teachers unions for forcing nonmembers to pay union fees. -
Texas Preacher Declares ESAs ‘Sinful’
Opinion -school-choice-weekly, Editorial -School Choice Weekly #172 -
Michigan Considers Bills to Repeal, Replace Common Core
Opinion -school-reform-news -The Michigan House and Senate are considering companion bills that would repeal the state’s adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and replace them with the highly-regarded standards Massachusetts used during the 2008-09 school year. -
Teach the Children Well (Gelbspan in schools)
Opinion -It is a propagandist’s dream to live in relative obscurity while seeing his work repeated and embraced across the land. Let me show you how it is not Ross Gelbspan I dwell on, but his words and the outgrowth from them. -
Conservative University Students Face Unprecedented Bias
Opinion -Many parents are in the process of visiting schools with their college-bound children trying to decide which one is a good fit. It is an exciting time, but also can be quite discouraging. -
North Dakota House Rejects Bill to Require Homegrown Standards
Opinion -school-reform-news -The North Dakota House of Representatives has voted against a bill that would have prohibited the state from joining multistate school curriculum standards systems. -
Oklahoma Charter School Achieves 100 Percent College Acceptance Rate
Opinion -Every student graduating this year at an Oklahoma City, Oklahoma public charter school has been accepted to at least one college. -
Florida Bill Would Make Computer Coding Count as a Foreign Language
Opinion -school-reform-news -A bill to allow public school students to use computer coding classes to satisfy their public college foreign language requirement is making its way through the Florida Senate. -
Growing Percentage of Non-Catholic Students at Catholic Schools a National Trend
Opinion -school-reform-news -A growing percentage of non-Catholic students are attending Catholic schools across the nation. -
Tiny, Rural Missouri School District Spends Little, Gets Exceptional Results
Opinion -school-reform-news -Strain-Japan School District, composed of a single K–8 school of 75 students in rural Franklin County, Missouri, is doing more with less, thanks to lots of collaboration among teachers, students, and parents. -
Catholic, ‘Hybrid’ Homeschooling Centers Expand Nationwide
Opinion -school-reform-news -Kari Beckman, a Catholic mother in Atlanta, Georgia, decided the home education she had designed for her children was not fulfilling her family’s needs. -
Supreme Court Vacates Lower Court Transgender Bathroom Ruling
Opinion -school-choice-weekly, Editorial -School Choice Weekly #171 -
ESAs Would Help ‘the Land of Opportunity’ Live Up to Its Name
Opinion -Editorial -The education-choice movement is based on a simple proposition: Parents should be given options for their child’s education. No longer should a child’s schooling be determined solely by ZIP code and the whim of circumstance. -
Feds Transform Title IX into Enemy of Common Sense
Opinion -Editorial -The egregious excesses of the so-called Office of Civil Rights deserve remedial action now. -
When It Comes to Civics Education, the Left Wants to Keep Children in the Dark
Opinion -Editorial -America just finished celebrating Presidents Day, but in this instance, “celebrating” means something entirely different than it usually does. -
States, Not the Federal Government, Should Shape School Accountability
Opinion -When the concept of accountability burst upon education policymaking in the latter half of the 20th century, it sounded like a good idea. -
Why Cutting Back ‘Free’ School Lunches Would Be a Favor to Families
Opinion -Editorial -House Republicans are being unfairly demonized for considering legislation that would cut back on the number of students receiving free or reduced-price school lunches.
