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Gathered in front of a large group of educators last month, New York City Schools Chancellor David Banks said it best, “we can’t just have a free-for-all.”

Responding to President Joe Biden's State of the Union address, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R-AR) observed, "I believe giving every child access to a quality education, regardless of their race or income, is the civil rights issue of our day." She added her rejection of a "policy of trapping kids in failing schools and sentencing them to a lifetime of poverty."

Across the country, we are seeing schools de-emphasizing homework, grades, attendance and academic recognition.

Given how many kids struggle with reading proficiency, it's stunning that the 'whole language' approach is still used in so many elementary schools

The National Education Association removed resources on Presidents Day from its websites in 2020, according to a Wayback Machine review.

The youngest governor in the country is the latest to embrace both teacher pay raises and expanded school choice

When House Speaker Cameron Sexton floated the idea of Tennessee rejecting U.S. education dollars to free its schools from federal restrictions, he made it sound simple. It’s not.

Every American student deserves the opportunity to receive a quality education, a pathway to fulfilling dreams, and upward economic and social mobility. Unfortunately, many parents in Arkansas dont get to choose the school that best fits their children; they are stuck with the school assigned to them based on their parents income and ZIP code.

As Superintendent Alberto Carvalho hits his one-year mark at Los Angeles Unified, he's succeeded in reducing absenteeism and slowing enrollment drops. But some parents want him to engage more with community.

Under President Bush's education plan, No Child Left Behind,federal funding would be linked to whether states actually succeedin this endeavor, as measured by the NAEP test.