The State of Texas has become as synonymous with crippling public school debt as it is with oil wells and tumbleweeds. Its public schools have $148.3 billion in bond debt – the most of any state by far – that will eventually have to be repaid, along with an additional $88.3 billion in interest. For every dollar […]
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In a free society, not having to pay if one’s mistakes harm others is a significant privilege. But the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act grants broad immunity from liability to Big Pharma, distributors, hospitals and clinics, doctors, pharmacists, and paramedics whenever the government declares a health emergency. Naturally, the law also protects the
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Jeremy Clepper was nearly ejected from a public meeting for criticizing a school board chairwoman’s vile social media post. Now, he has a rock-solid legal case. The Alachua County (Florida) School Board’s attempt to silence local father Jeremy Clepper during a public meeting is a textbook violation of his First Amendment rights, and he has
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Buried in the 940-page “big, beautiful” budget blueprint is an unprecedented tax credit that, if approved, would be a long-sought victory for the private school choice movement in its drive to expand and break into Democratic states that have for decades blocked its path. The tax credit program, which would provide scholarships to K-12 students
In the last five years, he has advertised in local newspapers and accepted more than a dozen unemployed applicants from the state’s job agency. Even when the average rate on his fields was $20 an hour, the U.S.-born workers lost interest, fast. “We’ve never had one come back after lunch. — Bob Goehring, grapes farmer in
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Buried in the 940-page “big, beautiful” budget blueprint is an unprecedented tax credit that, if approved, would be a long-sought victory for the private school choice movement in its drive to expand and break into Democratic states that have for decades blocked its path. The tax credit program, which would provide scholarships to K-12 students
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A high-stakes battle over the future of education is playing out in the state that has long had the best public schools in the nation – Massachusetts. The likely overhaul of high school education and graduation requirements in Massachusetts is mostly aimed at lifting the academic performance of low-income black and Latino students who have
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Ivy League academics mocked traditional values for decades. Now they’re panicking as their utopian vision crumbles — without a savior in sight. Picture a Harvard University faculty lounge: a ring of professors clustered around Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s letter, one of them furrowing his brow and murmuring, “Wait, are we the baddies?” Such moments
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While limiting strings-attached grants and curbing federal regulation, President Trump’s efforts to dismantle the Department of Education also take aim at a key tool bureaucrats use to oversee schools in all 50 states: civil rights investigations. Probes handled by the department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) against public schools, colleges and universities roughly doubled during
Multiplication, Biden-Style: School Bias Cases Doubled Read More »
I’ll never forget my first day in First Grade at Alleman Elementary in Lafayette, Louisiana. Oh, I was a seasoned school veteran! I had been to nursery school and pre-kindergarten, which was an unheard novelty in 1959, and had even graduated with honors from full-blown school: kindergarten! I was ready (and prepared) to take on
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