As predicted, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released their official guidance on school reopening last Friday. This is an important development because it provides a solid road map for allowing students to get back into the classroom….
The public health community has long since concluded that the perils of prolonged school closures are far greater than the risks posed by COVID-19 to students and teachers. This fact has not been lost on parents, who are growing increasingly…
Clarity and consensus among medical professionals has been hard to find on many issues related to COVID-19 policy, so it’s much appreciated when something appears to be clear-cut and universally agreed upon. In today’s sound-bite world, it can be dizzying…
It’s less than two weeks since Joe Biden was inaugurated, and if you listen to the media, it’s an even greater “morning in America” than Ronald Reagan proclaimed four decades ago. The illusion of a honeymoon for Biden the Democrat–Media…
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,…
Whether in Texas or New York, Detroit or Los Angeles, Democrat mayors and teachers unions shut down schools. Children with little social support and no finances for high-speed internet or computers are lost. Thousands of children have vanished into the…
Just last month, New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo was complaining, “If anybody sat here today and told you that they could reopen the schools in September that would be reckless and negligent of that person.” House of Representatives Speaker…
In the midst of a national education crisis, teachers’ unions are attempting to deny thousands of low-income students access to quality education. On Monday, a group of seven North Carolina parents filed a lawsuit in Wake County Superior Court to…
Sacramento Years ago, the administrators at a public library were upset that a large church had proposed leasing the building next door. The influx of churchgoers, they feared, would overburden the library’s limited resources. That always epitomized to me the…
