Opinion
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Chicago-Area Public School Mandates Students Discuss ‘White Guilt,’ ‘Blackeconomics’
Opinion -school-reform-news -A Chicago, Illinois-area public high school forced students to attend presentations and seminars centered on race and progressive messaging. -
We Have a New Education Secretary
Opinion -school-choice-weekly, Editorial -School Choice Weekly #168 -
Michigan Legislator Proposes Teacher Pension Reform Plan
Opinion -school-reform-news -A Michigan lawmaker says he plans to push forward a plan to reform the state’s unsustainable teacher-pension system. -
Dallas Public School District Working to Win Back Choice Students
Opinion -school-reform-news -The Dallas Independent School District (DISD) held a school fair to advertise its offerings to students who have left local public schools for alternative learning opportunities. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Confirmation of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos
Opinion -Press Release -‘The status quo in American education must be broken, and Betsy DeVos is the first nominee for the Department of Education who might actually break it.’ – Bruno Behrend -
Unique Catholic School Model Brings Service and Faith to Philadelphia
Opinion -school-reform-news -“Virtue, liberty, and independence” is Pennsylvania’s motto, and one Philadelphia Catholic high school is taking the saying to heart in preparing its graduates for spiritual and career success. -
Home School Legal Defense Association Sues New York City for Allegedly Mistreating Families
Opinion -school-reform-news -The Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) has filed a civil rights lawsuit against New York City public schools “over their systematic mistreatment of homeschooling families.” -
School Choice Advocate Confirmed as Ed Sec in Historic Tiebreaking Vote
Opinion -school-reform-news -Signaling a big change in national education policy, Vice President Mike Pence cast a historic tiebreaking vote to confirm Betsy DeVos as the new U.S. education secretary. -
Cuomo’s ‘Free’ College Proposal Nothing More Than a Welfare Program for the Upper Middle Class
Opinion -Editorial -Free college sounds wonderful, doesn't it? Like all things in life, if it sounds too good to be true, it's too good to be true. -
New Legislators Put Pennsylvania Among States Likely to Enact ESA Legislation
Opinion -school-reform-news -Lawmakers in Pennsylvania are likely to introduce education savings account (ESA) legislation during the 2017 session now that the state has larger Republican majorities in both the state’s House and Senate. -
Blaine Amendments at Center of Georgia Case Challenging Tax-Credit Scholarships
Opinion -school-reform-news -The Georgia Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a case challenging the constitutionality of the state’s tax-credit scholarship program. -
New Orleans Considers Making All Public Schools Charters
Opinion -school-reform-news -New Orleans may become the first large U.S. city to replace its traditional public school system entirely with charter schools. -
Every Senior at Ohio Catholic High School Accepted to College for Third Straight Year
Opinion -school-reform-news -Students at a Cincinnati, Ohio Catholic high school have set the bar high: For the third consecutive year, every senior at the school has been accepted to college. -
Virginia School District Removes Classic Literature from Classrooms, Sparking Protest
Opinion -school-reform-news -A group of community members gathered to protest a Virginia school district’s decision to remove two classic novels from a public school’s classrooms. -
U.S. Students Make Unimpressive Showing on International Tests
Opinion -school-reform-news -U.S. students scored below the international average in math and showed no improvement in reading and science on the most recent Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) test. -
The Ignored Lesson and Teachable Moment from the 2016 Election
Opinion -Editorial -The reason people distrust big government, whether they acknowledge it openly or not, is that deep in their hearts, they know a powerful government will inevitably limit individual freedom. -
Charlie Kirk, Brent Hamachek of Turning Point USA Sell Out Heartland Institute for Talk
Opinion -Editorial -Charlie Kirk and Brent Hamachek of Turning Point USA were guests at The Heartland Institute’s Andrew Breitbart Freedom Center on February 8 to talk about their book Time for a Turning Point. -
Higher Ed Groups Lobby Trump for More Campus Rights
Opinion -school-choice-weekly, Editorial -School Choice Weekly #167 -
Ending the Department of Education: A Grand Idea
Opinion -school-reform-news -Article reprinted with permission from Imprimis, a publication of Hillsdale College. -
Teen Drug and Alcohol Use at New Low, Survey Finds
Opinion -school-reform-news -Far fewer teenagers in the United States are using drugs and alcohol than a year ago, a new national survey has found. -
A Pall Descends on Our Campuses
Opinion -Editorial -There’s no safe space at the modern college for the U.S. Constitution. -
Heartland Weekly – IT’S ON! Heartland’s 12th International Conference on Climate Change
Opinion -heartland-weekly, Editorial -ICCC-12 is your opportunity to meet the scientists, economists, engineers, and policy experts who persuaded Trump that man-made global warming is not a crisis, and therefore Barack Obama’s war on fossil fuels must be ended. -
The Basis of American Exceptionalism Is True Freedom and Individual Liberty
Opinion -school-reform-news -Review of Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims: Time-Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans, by Rush Limbaugh (Threshold Editions, October 2013), 224 pp.; $12.19 on Amazon.com: ISBN-10: 1476755868, ISBN-13: 978-1476755861 -
Our Current Education System Is Doing Irreparable Harm to Our Economy and Our Future
Opinion -school-reform-news -The K-12 school system in America is broken. It has been for a long time.
