Education
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March 22nd, 2021
Bureaucracy and the Decline of Public Schools
For over a half century, from Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society to Barack Obama’s Race to the Top to the new education package within the COVID stimulus bill under Joe Biden, well-meaning presidents have tried in vain to remake America’s public schools.
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March 10th, 2021
What We Learned This Past Year
The COVID lockdowns have been an utter disaster for those at the lowest end of the pay scale, but hey, if you have a few million in the bank or better yet a government job, things are just fine.
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March 10th, 2021
Schools Are Damaging Your Child
I have been telling parents for decades that sending a child to almost any college is playing Russian roulette with his or her values.  
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February 26th, 2021
Supreme Court Petition in Maine School Choice Case
Last week, First Liberty Institute and the Institute for Justice (IJ)—a leading nonprofit law firm in school choice issues—petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review an appellate court decision in our Maine School Choice case.
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February 18th, 2021
School Choice Case
Last week, First Liberty Institute and the Institute for Justice (IJ)—a leading nonprofit law firm in school choice issues—petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review an appellate court decision in our Maine School Choice case. On behalf of two families, our legal team is challenging a Maine law that excludes students attending faith-based schools from the state’s high school tuition...
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February 4th, 2021
Senator Rand Paul to Education Secretary
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said he’s “disappointed” that Dr. Miguel Cardona, President Biden’s nominee for education secretary, is “okay” with “boys competing with girls” in track meets, swim meets, wrestling matches, and other sports arenas.
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February 3rd, 2021
Healing a Divided America
College students want to make a difference in healing our divided nation. But in today’s polarized society, many are frustrated and hopeless. The Christian Student Leadership Conference has been equipping and training college students for decades to be part of the solution. We help students explore public policy issues, careers in government or public service, what it means to be...
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January 29th, 2021
Schools and Unions
Another day, another set of parents who discovered at the last minute that the planned reopening of their kids’ long-shuttered elementary schools was being thwarted by a politically powerful teachers union.
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January 28th, 2021
Joe Biden, a Moderate?
President Biden wasted no time releasing a flurry of executive orders and legislative proposals. Some of them may be helpful in addressing the economic challenges imposed by the coronavirus pandemic. But others would almost certainly “cancel” his effort to create jobs, grow the economy and promote equity.
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January 27th, 2021
Teachers’ Union Ransom Demands
Parents and community groups in big, Democrat-run cities from New York to Chicago to San Francisco would very much like to reopen the public schools.
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