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Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren used to be a Republican, a Native American and pro-school choice. Now she is a Democrat, a Caucasian and anti-choice teacher union suck-up.

Despite ample funding, CPS continues to fail across the board, student test scores remain dismal, and union leaders consistently put their interests ahead of students’ interests.

Education Next added homeschooling to this year’s poll on school reform. Forty-five percent of respondents supported homeschooling, while 34 percent opposed. To further break down these numbers, 26 percent strongly…

Budget cuts continue to affect students, parents, and school staff in Chicago Public Schools. This time the librarian at Pritzker Elementary in Wicker Park was handed the pink slip. To…

The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), Chicago Public Schools (CPS), and Mayor Rahm Emmanuel’s administration reached a tentative agreement to avert what would have been the second teachers strike in Chicago in four years.

Watch Bruno Behrend debate Chicago Public School Principal Troy LaRaviere on the topic, “Public or private? What should be the future of public education in Chicago?” The debate was held…

On July 25, Heartland Institute Senior Fellow Bruno Behrend took part in the famous “Bughouse Square Debate”  before an audience of 500 people in Washington Square Park in the North…

This Saturday Heartland’s own Bruno Behrend will be debating Chicago Public School Principal Troy LaRaviere at the Bughouse Square Debate. This will be the featured debate on the topic “Public…

[First posted at Ricochet] The recently ended teachers’ strike in Chicago is the perfect encapsulation of a clash between the old guard and the new in the Democratic Party. On one side,…

There may be a simple explanation for why the vast majority of fourth and eighth graders in the Chicago Public Schools can’t read or do math at grade level – though there…

With remarkably poor timing, Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) teachers went on strike again today, roughly one week after Chicago’s public school students had returned to school and nearly three weeks…