Fischer: With school vouchers, be careful what you wish for
In the Roanoke Times excellent editorial “A bad argument for school vouchers” (July 24) the writers talk about voucher advocates wanting the money to follow the student.
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In the Roanoke Times excellent editorial “A bad argument for school vouchers” (July 24) the writers talk about voucher advocates wanting the money to follow the student.
May 4, 2020, marks 40 years to the day when the U.S. Department of Education opened its doors. The Cabinet-level agency is no longer in its infancy; Americans have four decades of data on academic outcomes by which to measure its impact on their children. For their part, teachers and school leaders have 40 years of an ever-increasing program count, and a mounting bureaucratic compliance burden by which they can measure the impact the agency has had on their working lives.
The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties issued the following testimony by Michelle Bishop, voter access and engagement manager at the National Disability Rights Network, for an Oct. 20, 2021, hearing entitled "Oversight of the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990: The Current State of Integration of People...
If you are not a good debater, make sure the debate doesn’t happen. 4:27 pm, Jun. 27, 2021 × By Joe Richardson | Fargo, N.D. "This bill takes away state authority and effectively nationalizes our election system. I don’t believe North Dakotans want the federal government to determine how we conduct our elections.” - Sen. John Hoeven, Forum, June 24, 2021. The reason he gave for voting to stop any debate from happening in the Senate on the For the People Act – on voting access. If you are not a good debater, make sure the debate doesn’t happen. “Nationalizes our electio...
Wisconsin Examiner Election litigation in Wisconsin can feel like playing ‘whack-a-mole’ Getty Images Wisconsin garnered national attention for holding an in-person election at the onset of the pandemic in the spring of 2020 when other states were delaying elections or moving them online. The job of an elections attorney became all-consuming. More than a year and a divisive presidential election later, the Wisconsin Legislature is pushing through a host of bills that would affect future elections — and invite legal battles because of potential violations of state and federal law, as ...