National School Choice Week
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The abusive education monopoly must go.
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Why School Choice Will Continue to Grow in Popularity
by Teresa Mull February 16, 2018National School Choice Week (NSCW), an annual event that celebrates education choice, has been smashing attendance records year after year.
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A U.S. Department of Education study conducted at the end of Obama’s tenure finds what has been obvious for the past decades: substantial federal spending alongside strict regulation helps schools improve not one iota.
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The Left Didn’t Groove to the Beat of School Choice Week
by Robert Holland February 10, 2017The record-breaking numbers for the seventh annual National School Choice Week (NSCW), which wrapped up January 28, were stunning.
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Teachers Unions Know School Choice Would Be A National Game-Changer
by Teresa Mull January 24, 2017The National Education Association (NEA), the nation’s largest labor union, sent a mass e-mail last week urging supports to “Tell your senators: Vote NO on Betsy DeVos.”
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With DeVos Hearing, School Choice Finally Takes Center Stage
by Teresa Mull January 23, 2017To be followed next week with National School Choice Week.
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What Passes for Anti-School Choice Rhetoric is Frightening
by Timothy Benson February 17, 2016The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss has inadvertently done the country an invaluable service by allowing the rest of us to travel through the looking-glass into a universe where things are the opposite of real life: the world of far-left thought on education.
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National School Choice Week Forum: Fund Children, Not Districts
by Lennie Jarratt February 4, 2016On Saturday, January 30, 2016, The Heartland Institute hosted a National School Choice Week forum. Speakers for the event included Joe Walsh, a former congressman and current radio personality on…
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School Choice Means Not Asking Politicians For Permission To Educate Your Child
by Lennie Jarratt February 1, 2016Parents, students, educators, and pro-liberty activists across the nation will be celebrating National School Choice Week, which began on Sunday and will wrap up on January 30. It’s a time to celebrate the education choices some students now enjoy and to open up similar opportunities for all students. All children deserve access to a quality education. Politicians must stop making parents ask for permission to educate their children properly, because parents know better than anyone else which educational strategies and environments will work best. It is up to all taxpayers to demand school choice and give parents the power to guide their children’s education.
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‘Tis the Season for Parents to Explore School Options
by Robert Holland January 29, 2016School choice has been trending for a good many Januarys now, and that’s not just because of the successful promotion efforts of National School Choice Week (NSCW), held annually during the final week of January. After launching five years ago with just a few hundred public events, NSCW will sponsor 16,140 rallies, forums and the like in all 50 states this Jan. 24-30.