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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…
Connor Boyack and Corey DeAngelis write for the Federalist about the popular complaint that public schools are “broken.” Many parents feel the school system is broken. Across America, teachers and…
COVID-19 has had a serious impact on schools across the state. All but two public district schools in North Carolina saw enrollment decreases for the first month of the 2020-2021…
It’s not a choice if the government compels you to go and limits competition. But you knew that already.
House Bill 136 lowers the compulsory attendance age from 7- to 6-years-old. While their intentions are good, bill sponsors may have failed to consider how that change would affect home…
View in your browser. Welcome Political lesson of the week — don’t mess with home school families. Bulletin Board Attend. A list of upcoming events sponsored by the John Locke…
“Compulsory Education and the Benefits of Schooling” by Melvin Stephens, Jr. and Dou-Yan Yang examines the relationship between state compulsory attendance laws and outcomes such as wages, unemployment, and divorce.…
The Polk County Board of Commissioners would like to increase the “required school age” from seven to six. (Educators love to garble syntax to make themselves sound important and programming.)…
The poor public schools don’t have any money. Teachers are pink-slipped, and the others have class sizes too large to handle. So, to solve the problem, Polk County is recommending…
Let’s get right into it, shall we? First up are higher standards. President Obama argued, For less than one percent of what our nation spends on education each year, we’ve…
There was a little good, a little more bad, and plenty of ugly in the recently concluded 2010 session of the North Carolina General Assembly. Becki Gray offers her assessment…
The latest TIME includes an interesting article about families seeking asylum in the United States because their home countries ban homeschooling. The featured Romeike family hails from Germany, which apparently…