Lennie Jarratt
Director of the Center for Education Opportunities at The Heartland Institute
Jarratt is the former managing editor of Champion News, an Illinois based news website focused on reporting on Education and Illinois Politics, and former managing editor of Education Matters. Jarratt has presented analysis on Common Core, School Choice analysis on Fox News, Breitbart, ABC Chicago and multiple radio outlets and newspapers across Illinois.
Latest posts by Lennie Jarratt (see all)
- Child Safety Accounts: A State by State Analysis - January 30, 2020
- Democrat Governor Wants To Strip School Choice Lifeline From Tens Of Thousands Of Needy Kids - June 13, 2019
- Improving Student Safety 20 Years After Columbine - May 8, 2019
Heartland Institute Executive Editor Justin Haskins writes in his New York Post op-ed: “Hillary Clinton’s college-tuition plan is perfectly in line with her general economic outlook. That means it would move the country even closer to European-style socialism by raising taxes, punishing businesses that move overseas and, perhaps most disastrous of all, planning a massive government takeover of much of U.S. higher education. … This plan is more than just a little reckless; it would become, like ObamaCare, an absolute disaster.” Continue reading…
Stories included in this edition are from School Reform News, School Choice Weekly, Somewhat Reasonable, and several other sources.
IN THIS ISSUE:
- Homeschoolers aren’t waiting on politicians’ promises of school choice.
- Number of families in homeschool support group nearly quadruples as school year begins.
- Homeschooling is the smartest way to teach kids in the twenty-first century.
- Nursing career nearly ends over homeschool diploma.
- Homeschooling offers parents and kids a flexible alternative.
- Another state has been found inflating Common Core test results.
- Kids who don’t fit Common Core mold get mental health treatment.
- ACT can’t decide whether it likes Common Core or not.
- Homeschool students learn programming and more through robotics.
- Tennessee to become national pioneer in creating social and emotional standards.
- ‘Massive’ breach exposes hundreds of questions for upcoming SAT exams.
- Listen to a discussion about homeschooling misconceptions … and how homeschooling provided gymnast Simone Biles education and training flexibility.
