The Supreme Court voted 6–3 to strike down as unconstitutional a Maine law that excludes families from a student aid program if they choose to send their children to religious schools, in a decision released June 21. The ruling is a defeat for the Biden administration, which supported Maine’s position. Under the program, school districts…
Supreme Court Strikes Down Maine’s Ban on Funding for Religious Schools
June 21, 2022
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Oregonians Say Education on Wrong Track, Overwhelmingly Support School Choice, Poll Finds
A new poll suggests that Oregon voters are extremely dissatisfied with the state’s K-12 education system and would overwhelmingly support school choice. Of 727 registered voters polled on June 1, just 25 percent of Democrats, 9.7 percent of Republicans, and 14.1 percent of independents believe that Oregon’s public K-12 education system is on the right…
Orange County Makes It Easier for Students to Attend Schools Outside of District
May 9, 2022
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COSTA MESA, Calif.—The Orange County Board of Education is making it easier for students to attend schools outside of their districts. Typically, parents can petition the board to allow their child to attend a school outside of their district, in the cases of issues related to transportation, childcare, and the parent’s place of employment. But…
School Choice Initiative Flunks—While More Kids Exit Schools
Commentary Millions of California schoolchildren will remain in the state’s failing government schools. That’s because the California School Choice Initiative flunked its bid to gain enough signatures by the April 11 deadline to make it onto the November ballot. Only about 20 percent of the nearly 1 million required signatures were gathered. It would have…
Biden Admin Quietly Pushing Anti-Charter Policies, School Choice Advocates Warn
April 4, 2022
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Amid nationwide calls for giving parents more choice in their children’s education, the Biden administration has quietly proposed changes that critics say will make it harder for new public charter schools to open and for existing ones to survive. On March 14, the U.S. Department of Education released a 14-page regulatory proposal regarding the priorities,…
Georgia Senate Kills School-Choice Bill
The Georgia Senate has killed a bill that would have allowed Georgians to put taxpayer money toward the cost of private school tuition. Senate Bill 601, the Georgia Educational Freedom Act, would have created state-funded Promise Scholarships of up to $6,000 a year. Families of the roughly 1.7 million K-12 students in Georgia could use…
Who Is Running for Orange County Board of Education?
March 17, 2022
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The time is up for three board of education trustees that have advocated for parental rights and against COVID-19 mandates in schools. While all three are running the race again, they are up against various challengers. Candidates had until March 11 to turn in their paperwork to run for a trustee seat that will be…
Save the Children, Fire the Teachers Unions
January 11, 2022
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Commentary It started in Chicago, where an incredible 91 percent of union teachers voted to go on strike and refused to do what they get paid to do, which is teach. Then the union walkouts spread to Maryland, New Jersey, and California. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, a liberal Democrat, has attacked the Chicago teachers unions…
School Daze
January 11, 2022
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Commentary For the third straight day last week, the Chicago Teachers Union canceled classes, choosing to return to virtual learning and citing dangers from the Omicron variant as their excuse. To many, this is seen as nothing more than a teachers’ strike and power grab executed by a union that historically supports Democrat politicians. Democrats…
School Choice Provides Real Accountability: Neal McCluskey
January 8, 2022
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Empowering parents with school choice will bring real accountability to the school system, Neal McCluskey, director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Educational Freedom, said. “When a parent can take their child and the money [from] a school that’s not working for them, and take them to another school, that’s instant accountability,” he said. “The…
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