Education Reform Opinion
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PARKER: I’d Rather Homeschool Than Put My Kids in a Coronavirus Prison School
By now, many of us have seen the tentative plans of our local districts to reopen schools. These plans range…
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TUCCILLE: Families Turn to Homeschooling as the Education Establishment Fumbles Its Pandemic Response
If you can’t count on schools to perform their core educational responsibilities, why wouldn’t you look elsewhere?
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MATUS: Setting This Newspaper Straight about School Choice
That festering falsehood and others aired in a fact-challenged July 5 op-ed. The author relied on tired myths to argue…
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McDONALD: Back to School? ‘No Thanks’ Say Millions of New Homeschooling Parents
With dehumanizing COVID-19 restrictions awaiting students at schools, many parents are opting to keep on homeschooling.
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KNIGHT: After Flunking Distance Learning, Why Haven’t San Francisco District Officials Spent the Summer Cramming to Ace It?
It’s the rare San Francisco public schoolkid, parent or teacher who thought our emergency experiment with distance learning in the…
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STEPMAN: The View’s Joy Behar Is Just Plain Wrong about Education Funding Cuts
On Monday, The View, co-host Joy Behar launched an attack on the Trump administration and Republicans generally for allegedly not…
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MEHTA: ‘No Excuses High,’ Trapped by Its Own Success?
Highly regimented charter schools deliver the test results, but their methods may be ill-suited to the independent realities of college…
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MURPHY: SCOTUS Ruling Was a Huge Win for School Choice, but Fed Must Step in to Help Schools of Choice in Jeopardy from COVID-19
Since the COVID-19 pandemic struck, at least 75 private and parochial schools have announced that they are shutting their doors,…
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MANSELL: South Carolina Homeschool Accountability Groups Report Surge in Homeschooling
As politicians and education leaders debate what education will look like in the fall, many South Carolina families who have…
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PORTER-MAGEE: Two Ways to Save Catholic Schools
Since the nationwide coronavirus schools shutdown, more than 100 private schools have made the difficult decision to shutter their doors…
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BROY: Charter Schools Were Fully Entitled to Receive Federal COVID-19 Loans
Amid a global pandemic and decades of disinvestment on the West and South sides where we serve students, the article…
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NEW YORK POST: It’s a Lot Harder to Fire a Bad NYC Teacher Than a Bad Cop
Pot, meet kettle: Randi Weingarten, the head of the American Federation of Teachers, says police unions need to stop protecting…
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ROMFO: When Private Schools Lose Funding, Low-Income Kids Lose Too
This is very bad news for children whose families are already suffering from the pandemic’s economic impact.
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DeANGELIS: Don’t Force Schools to Reopen, but Don’t Force Families to Pay for Closed Schools Either
Between the complete closures of some schools and the poor performance of schools that have implemented distance learning, taxpayers are…
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SLATTERY and BLEVINS: Supreme Court Ensures More Educational Opportunity for Kids
Now, these antiquated laws no longer can be used to erect barriers to school-choice initiatives. The Espinoza ruling will empower…
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McGHEE: Michigan, California, and Company Want to Punish Private Schools for Being Private Schools
Not only is this kind of thinking discriminatory, it’s also flat-out wrong.
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PONDISCIO: At 90, Thomas Sowell Reminds Charter Schools How to Fight. And Why.
There is a reason we’re told to respect our elders. It’s bracing and edifying to listen to voices of wisdom…
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DALLAS MORNING NEWS: Dallas District Should Look at Another Source of Guidance for Discipline Reform: Charter Schools
Charter schools have better results when it comes to the intersection of discipline and ethnicity.
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RACHMUTH and JENSEN: Black Lives Matter Curriculum in Public Schools Is Turning Kids Into Little Marxists
School systems across the country are adopting BLM curriculum at at alarming rate, indoctrinating our children to achieve Marxist objectives.
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STEPMAN: What Will Become of Our Schools?
After hospitals and healthcare, perhaps no other part of American life has been more affected by the Chinese coronavirus disaster…
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SCHWALBACH and HRONCICH: Getting Students Back on Track After School Shutdowns
One size does not fit all when it comes to education. The COVID-19 pandemic has made this education choice adage…
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HARSANYI: Destroy the ‘Public’ Education System
‘Public” schools have been a catastrophe for the United States. This certainly isn’t an original assertion, but as we watch…
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SMARICK: What the Espinoza Decision Means for Other Aspects of Religious Freedom
It could affect state charter-school laws, professional development dollars, state and federal funding formulas, and much more.
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U.S. Civil Unrest a Reflection on Public Education
Since 1979, when Jimmy Carter created the Department of Education (DoED) to buy votes from the National Education Association (NEA),…
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HESS: KIPP’s New Mantra: ‘Slack Off. Be Mean.’
What KIPP has embraced is a fairly radical vision that retreats from defending even time-tested, broadly supported, foundational virtues if…
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