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Gretchen Whitmer is trying to sweep her debate missteps under the rug and cast herself as the 'pro-education' candidate.

A proposal before Michigan voters would create one of the largest voucher-like systems in the country, with the potential to offer more than a half-billion dollars in public funds for students to attend private schools. There’s just one hitch: Most residents have never heard of it. In a recent statewide poll, 93% of the electorate […]

(The Center Square) — Georgia officials touted Peach State students scores on the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress, saying they were in line with the national average.

Cooper definitely made the wrong call on school closures. But relitigating the issue isn’t going to fix the present problem.

Louisiana's Department of Education Superintendent Cade Brumley is celebrating not shutting down schools and going remote after national test scores showed state fared better.

When a case of monkeypox was reported in Nevada’s Humboldt County in August, it was the state’s first detected occurrence of the virus in a rural area.

With about a week before Election Day, Tudor Dixon is focused on school learning losses during the pandemic and parental rights in K-12 education.

Who would you rather have choose your child’s school—a politician or a bureaucrat? If you answered “neither,” you’re in good company with the conservatives in Arizona who passed a law last year that allows any of the state’s K-12 students to apply for an Empowerment Scholarship Account. In so doing, Arizona policymakers put parents in the driver’s seat when it comes to critical decisions about where and how their children are educated.

Many changes happened in this country because of the COVID-19 pandemic. What started as surviving a deadly virus evolved into the revelation of the Lefts aggressive government overreach, elitist superiority, and double standards. Then came the unintended consequence of remote learning — the discovery of the magnitude of left-wing brainwashing in our nations public schools.

The 2022 NAEP was the first time the test had been given since 2019, so it provides a glimpse of the pandemic's impact on learning. Cleveland saw a drop of 16 points in fourth-grade reading.