Last year the Michigan Legislature approved two strong school choice bills that established a Michigan Student Opportunity Scholarship (SOS) program. Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer vetoed them, but the state constitution allows the Legislature to override a governor’s veto.
It’s clearly an election year scam, one perfectly timed to try to gin up votes for a president whose approval ratings make him toxic on the campaign trail. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi previously suggested Biden’s move would be illegal: “the president can’t do it. That’s not even a discussion.”
Two recent federal district court case rulings may have opened the way for expanded sex-based Title IX nondiscrimination requirements on tax-exempt independent schools.
It’s back to school! You bought all the school supplies and new clothes, but what about insulating your children against school indoctrination?
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic significantly hampering K-12 education, millions of students across the U.S. are working on assignments substantially below their grade level, according to a study released Monday.
Here are the top five most expensive per pupil state school systems in America, with a comparative of median income and the resultant income-adjusted percentage of school spending for each state.
Instead of spending the COVID-19 windfall on safety enhancements education officials themselves evidently knew weren’t necessary, school district after school district is now spending the money on “teacher recruitment and retention.”
After closing down much of the economy and making unprecedented requirements for quarantines and masking during the initial COVID-19 mitigation effort, it appears this year the state of Vermont will be treating the coronavirus more like a seasonal flu.
Progressives seek to collect taxes from Vermonters to support this Constitution-hating, government-established cult in public schools, while undermining efforts to shield children from its harmful host of horrors.
Public school enrollment has declined in tandem with extremist ideological indoctrination, and now those extremists are doubling down in an effort to cease Vermont’s longstanding support of educational alternatives.
The $8 million donation, given over a three-year period, will be used for phasing in the strategic plan to add new master’s degrees, separate the graduate and law schools, create more cross-disciplinary approaches in degrees, and bolster the school’s existing environmental programs.
Republicans’ trust in public schools has fallen much further than their Democrat counterparts. Gallup reports that only 14% of Republicans say they have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in public schools, compared to 43% of Democrats. And only 29% of independents report having a great deal or quite a lot of confidence.