charter schools

Los Angeles teacher union leader is using the coronavirus crisis as an excuse to trash charter schools.

This is the second week of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) strike. It’s the second CTU strike in less than 10 years, and it’s having wide and far-ranging repercussions.

Two bills that would have deeply wounded the popular schools of choice are dead…for now.

Heartland’s Donald Kendal, and Justin Haskins are joined by Jim Lakely in episode #192 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s episode features work from Gallup, the National Center for Public Policy Research, and the National Review Institute.

As charter schools continue to prove themselves, the threatened education monopolists try to kill them off.

California’s teachers unions, a compliant legislature and an anti-choice governor do not bode well for the state’s charter schools.

The go-to mantra of many traditional government school advocates is that education-choice programs destroy neighborhood public schools.

Charter schools are not going to disappear overnight from the menu of education-reform options.

President Donald Trump may receive little or no credit anytime soon from within the public-education establishment for potentially easing the dead weight of federal mandates from the pursuit of learning in classrooms across the country.

If a state offers a grant program, do its officials violate the Constitution if they reject a church preschool’s application due to the state’s longstanding ban on all aid, direct or indirect, to religiously affiliated organizations?

As nice as it is for these people to care as much as they apparently do about other people’s children, it’s arrogant for them to think they know what’s best for another parent’s child. And trying to control where and how a child who is not your own is educated makes me wonder: Why do you care so much about the children of others?

The Obama administration was fond of proclaiming that high-school graduation rates hit record highs during its tenure. A new report shows that those numbers don’t mean much.

Who is “smarter than the average bear?”