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Evidence Suggests Private Schooling No More Likely Than Public to Fuel Right‐​Wing Militancy SHARE For some people, a considerable worry about private education is that it might foster right‐​wing hate and militancy. This concern can be seen in a series of HuffPostarticles over the last few years sounding alarms about textbooks in some private schools, and in this recent op‐​ed attacking efforts to expand educational freedom in West Virginia. Says the latter: We have seen where this leads. In some Middle Eastern cultures, private schools called madrassas have been known to...

Publications Never lose a debate with a global warming alarmist!   Research & Commentary: Bills Expanding Eligibility to ESA Program and Lexie’s Law All Help Provide Great Education Options for Arizona Children February 5, 2021 Bills Would Expand ESA to Low-Income, Bullied, and Military Children; Expand Budget For Lexie's Law The Arizona Legislature has seen a flurry of school choice legislation introduced this session that could provide tremendous help to families looking for better educational options for their children. Three bills involve expanding the scope of the state’s Empowermen...

January 29, 2021 Program Would Be Open To All Children K-5 Legislation in the North Dakota House of Representatives has been recently introduced that would establish an education savings account (ESA) program for all North Dakota children in grades K–5. If passed, the ESAs would be available to parents of public school children to pay for tuition, curriculum, and fees at private and parochial schools. The funds could also be used to pay for textbooks, tutoring services, computers and other approved hardware, instructional materials, and educational therapies and services. The ESAs could a...

Publications Never lose a debate with a global warming alarmist!   January 27, 2021 Roughly 10,000 Students Would Be Eligible For Program Legislation making its way through the Iowa Senate would, among other things, establish the Student First Scholarship Program, an education savings account (ESA) program open to children attending a “public school identified for comprehensive support and improvement under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act [ESSA].” These accounts would pay for “tuition and fees at a nonpublic school, textbooks, fees or payments for educational therapies, includin...

Yes, some charter schools do pick their students. It’s not a myth. Valerie Strauss © Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post Art supplies loaded up and waiting for preschool students at Excel Academy Public School in Southeast Washington. This is a rebuttal to a recent column by The Washington Post’s Jay Mathews, who has long written in support of charter schools and who, last month, penned a piece calling it a myth that charter schools can pick and choose students. The issue is part of a long-running national debate on charter schools, which are publicly funded but priva...