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Education
Many Teachers Love the Choice That Union Leaders Loathe
by Robert Holland February 13, 2019The ESA is the latest innovation in choice, and quite likely the most promising for bringing about enduring reform of K–12 education.
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Education
Social Engineering – Transferring Parental Control of Children to Teachers
by Nancy Thorner and Bonnie O'Neil January 24, 2018Children in our public schools are being pummeled with political correctness.
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As Americans have slowly recovered from the now 10-year-old recession, enrollment in private schools has increased dramatically.
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Education
Choice: Better Than a Simple Thank-You for Military Families
by Robert Holland November 30, 2017Another Veterans Day has come and gone. As nice as all the free doughnuts, meals, and haircuts were, even nicer was a simple statement—“Thank you for your service”—often tendered with a handshake.
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Education
How to Prevent High School Dropouts? Give Families the Schools They Want
by Teresa Mull November 28, 2017Last month was National Dropout Prevention Month. The media has been eagerly reporting that high school graduation rates have reached a record high, though “incomplete or fuzzy” district data makes such claims questionable.
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Education
ESAs Present Lawmakers with a Golden Opportunity to Help New Hampshire Kids
by Timothy Benson October 18, 2017In April, the New Hampshire House of Representatives had a golden opportunity to do something heroic for Granite State kids by passing a universal education savings account (ESA) bill, but it flinched at the last minute and “retained” it in committee
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Blaine amendments, borne out of 19th-century anti-Catholic bigotry, have been the constant bane of the modern education-choice movement.
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Determined progress on the “civil rights issue of our time,” despite unfortunate Republican opposition.
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EducationFeatured
Heartland Institute Panel Discusses the Urgency of School Choice
by Nancy Thorner February 2, 2016National School Choice Week is held every January. This year’s event took place from January 24 – 30, 2016. Throughout the U.S. over 16,000 events were held, with Illinois having 918 events, the most of any state. Here in Illlinois, 300,000 take advantage of personal tax credits, a form of school choice. Illinois allows families to claim credits worth 25% of their educational expenses. Worthwhile checking out is A History of School Choice from 1923 to 2015.