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Senator seeks to revoke NEA charter
Editors at the New York Post ponder a US senator’s proposal for holding a national teachers union accountable for its misdeeds. A key US senator wants fellow lawmakers to consider…
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Pennsylvania governor opposes popular school choice options
Jack Fowler writes for National Review Online about Pennsylvania Democrats’ opposition to education options their constituents support. Americans are strongly in favor of charter schools. [The survey] shows that 53…
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Taking ‘stolen’ schools back from progressives
Stanley Kurtz writes for National Review Online about strategies conservatives can employ to regain a foothold in public schools. The most powerful steps we could take to wrest public schools…
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School walkouts prompt partisan divide
Stanley Kurtz writes for National Review Online about another reason for partisan splits. K–12 students have a First Amendment right to protest peacefully in school — wearing armbands, writing for…
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Teachers Union Wants Homeless to Sleep in School Parking Lots
Alec Schemmel of the Washington Free Beacon reports on the latest questionable idea emerging from a teachers union. One of California’s largest teachers’ unions wants to open up its public…
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NYT Worries Bad Test Scores Will Boost Republicans
Andrew Stiles of the Washington Free Beacon ponders a major media outlet’s response to news about dismal student test scores. What happened: The Department of Education on Monday reported a…
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An Unwelcome Transformation of American Grade Schools
Tristan Justice of the Federalist highlights disturbing changes in public schools serving younger children. Government grade school isn’t what it used to be. More than two years after America’s ruling…
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Washington Examiner Labels Public Education System ‘Failure’
Editors at the Washington Examiner offer a harsh assessment of American public education. It has become clear over the past several months that the U.S. public education system is a…
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Parents Fighting Schools’ Crazy Pronoun Pronouncement
Josh Christenson of the Washington Free Beacon reports on a group of motivated parents in Virginia. Virginia parents are holding a rally on Thursday to oppose a Fairfax County School…
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Battle Against Education Establishment Reaches Potential Tipping Point
Robert Busek writes for the Federalist about recent developments in the fight against the public education status quo. Last week, the parents of San Francisco served notice on the educational…
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Left Used COVID as Excuse to Prop Up Terrible Ideas
Clarice Feldman writes for the American Thinker about the political left’s misuse of the coronavirus pandemic. The not-so-great notion in recent years, in my view, has been that of the…
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Nikole Hannah-Jones Gets Something Right, Blames Teachers Unions for Hurting Kids
Andrew Stiles of the Washington Free Beacon reports an unexpected bit of wisdom from the author of the problematic “1619 Project.” America’s foremost expert on racism is lashing out at…