The battle over charter schools today is largely due, I believe, to a misunderstanding of the charter school idea and its purpose....
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Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris wants to extend the school day to 6 p.m. to align it with the work day and better support working families. But is a longer school day the solution to rigid work schedules? Even liberal Whoopi Goldberg is concerned, referring to Harris's plan as "institutionalizing" kids....
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For some reason, the agenda for the Duluth School Board's public meetings gets discussed and set in private behind closed doors. Not only are members of the public excluded from attending meetings to set the agenda. So are all but two of the school board members who represent the public. But perhaps not for much longer, thanks to questions raised in the news coverage and now the editorial page of the Duluth News Tribune. Yes, of course there’s suspicion — or the “implication” — “that there is something that is going on in School Board agenda meetings that’s secret or excludes people,”...
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School funding debates have led to several pretty costly spending proposals from the 2020 presidential candidate pool. There are three big concerns Americans need to consider before they jump on board with these proposals....
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Today, school districts that had their levy pass took to social media to share the news. But what was disturbing was how the news was shared—children were being used as props to support the tax increase. ...
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It’s unfortunate the teachers’ union resorted, again, to using students and families as its political pawns. The Chicago teachers’ strike was more than a labor agreement dispute, it was a power play....
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Seventeen high school girls from across Minnesota participated in a speech competition at the state’s Capitol this past Saturday. Speaking Proudly, the oratory competition sponsored by the Metro Republican Women, tasked interested high school females with writing an original persuasive speech on Benjamin Franklin’s prescient statement, “A Republic, if you can keep it.” Photo Source: Speaking Proudly ...
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The Seattle public schools have developed a new "ethnic studies" curriculum that tells students that mathematics is a tool of oppression. Sure, some of us thought that back in junior high school, especially when we didn't get around to doing our homework. But to have this view endorsed by the schools is remarkable. Robby Soave reports at Reason: The [Seattle public school] district has proposed a new social justice-infused curriculum that would focus on "power and oppression" and "history of resistance and liberation" within the field of mathematics. The curriculum isn't mandatory, but provides a resource for teachers who want to...
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Halloween is just around the corner, and so is the deadline for teachers to request a refund of the forced political action committee (PAC) contribution the union deducts from teachers’ paychecks. The union must receive teachers' PAC refund request forms by Halloween (Oct. 31). ...
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s remarks at a Bernie Sanders campaign rally last weekend helped make the argument for more educational choice, despite her overall fight against the school choice movement....
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