The New York Times’ reframing of American history—launched as “The 1619 Project”—will now be taught in K-12 schools around the country. ...
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National School Choice Week 2020 is drawing to a close, so to conclude I wanted to highlight a recently published book that helps families navigate through all the different options for K-12 education. ...
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There is an appetite for expanded school choice that continues to grow across political and demographic groups. Families want educational options for their own kids, and they are willing to make sacrifices in their own lives to access those options. ...
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National School Choice Week 2020 is officially underway! Center of the American Experiment is proud to join hundreds of schools, organizations, students and school leaders in celebrating all Minnesota students....
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Despite Education Minnesota’s stated “commitment” to “workplace democracy” as one of its core, institutional objectives, teachers have not had the opportunity to vote for, or against, union representation in many generations. In Wisconsin, thanks to Act 10, annual union recertification elections give teachers the right to vote for their representation in the upcoming collective bargaining for the school year. If teachers are not satisfied with the union, they can assess their exclusive representative relationship through a secret-ballot recertification election. ...
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Finland, whose education system has been the envy of the world, has had a recent trend of poor student performance and widening achievement gaps. The teachers' union's solution? More funding, of course. ...
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The National Education Association (NEA) has voiced support for the Family Stability and Opportunity Vouchers Act, introduced in December by Senators Todd Young (R-IN) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD). But what the national union may not realize is that its support of the bill is actually an endorsement of a form of public school choice....
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Where would Education Minnesota's teacher of the year Kelly Holstine be without President Trump? The alternative school teacher at Tokata Learning Center in Shakopee first called attention to herself by letting it be known to the media she was skipping a White House ceremony to honor teachers last spring. Holstine told the Shakopee Valley News her opposition to the president's policies precluded her from being anywhere near Trump. Holstine said this diverse group of students at Tokata — many of whom are or are related to undocumented immigrants or are Somali refugees — face discrimination daily and the Trump administration's immigration policies...
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I was pleased to read a Star Tribune counterpoint written by a parent who pushed back against the claims by Steve Marchese, a St. Paul school board member, that school choice advocates refuse to examine the effects educational freedom has on “actual students.”...
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There is a reason most people fail at keeping their New Year’s resolutions—breaking habits or creating new ones takes time and consistency. But when it comes to our public education system, time and consistency has only resulted in failure. It is time for the public school system to get a character assessment, a reset and it needs a "new year, new me" makeover....
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