Chicago voters, both living and dead, are picking the next mayor of the Windy City today. While deceased voters need not worry about such things, those who still breathe are concerned foremost about crime. Widespread, senseless lawlessness has crept from…
Earlier this year, the Chicago Board of Education’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released its annual report, which notes, “In Fiscal Year 2022, the OIG received 1,825 complaints alleging misconduct, waste, fraud and financial mismanagement at Chicago Public Schools…
Rather than granting or denying cert to a case involving a North Carolina charter school, the U.S. Supreme Court Monday sent the case to the Biden administration for further consideration. In a one-sentence directive, the court asked the U.S. solicitor…
Any school that’s attacked by the national teachers unions, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the gender-identity lobby is probably doing something right: In our case, we teach kids to read, write, compute, and think; respect their elders and each…
Three Tennessee school boards denied the application of the American Classical Academy, a K-12 charter school system affiliated with Hillsdale College that provides students with a classic liberal arts education. The American Classical Academy alleges that these decisions are politically…
Last week, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed the nation’s most expansive school choice program in U.S. history. The legislation calls for extending over $6,000 in educational scholarships to the parents or guardians of all Arizona students, regardless of income bracket….
A federal appeals court ruled last week that a charter school in North Carolina could not require girls to wear skirts in compliance with the school’s dress code. By a 10-6 vote, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that…
Sacramento California’s traditional public schools have never done a particularly good job educating poor and minority students for all the obvious reasons that government union-run monopolies do a lousy job providing any service. Nearly 78 percent of California’s public-school students are minorities,…
The best way to anticipate federal education policy during a Biden administration is to be unflinchingly realistic. Education policy will cater to special interests according to their ideological beliefs and self-justifications. Those special interests consist of entrenched institutions, their employees,…
