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Teacher With Male Elementary School Pupil With Problem

^{Keri D. Ingraham and Max Eden
November 7, 2022
School Choice

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School Choice Can Catch Students Back Up

_{Keri D. Ingraham and Max Eden
November 7, 2022
School Choice

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The recent release of the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress exam score reveals the largest decline since the assessment was launched in 1990. The depth of the crisis is greater than many in the education establishment want to acknowledge. Read More ›

Public or Private School Green Road Sign Over Sky

^{Keri D. Ingraham
October 24, 2022
Private School, School Choice

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No Incentive to Provide Quality Service or Produce Results

_{Keri D. Ingraham
October 24, 2022
Private School, School Choice

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One of the biggest differences between public and private K-12 schools is the incentives. Private schools are motivated to satisfy their customers, parents, and families — be responsive or risk losing them. Read More ›

Young male student sitting in the classroom

^{Keri D. Ingraham
October 20, 2022
Education Policy, Unions

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Underfunded & Understaffed — The Reoccurring Themes of K-12 Public Education

_{Keri D. Ingraham
October 20, 2022
Education Policy, Unions

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No regard is given to the poor management of personnel nor the bloated school district bureaucracy and staff rosters. Schools operate an overstaffing model, ignoring enrollment downturns because it positions them well to claim the education system is underfunded, which pulls on the heartstrings of lawmakers and voters. Read More ›

Money for the game Monopoly by Hasbro on a white background.

^{Donald Nielsen
September 26, 2022
Education Policy, Unions

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The Monopolies of Education

_{Donald Nielsen
September 26, 2022
Education Policy, Unions

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Monopolies are seldom efficient or effective. With three monopolies built into our current K-12 public education system, it's not hard to understand why the system is failing the majority of children. Read More ›

Teaching dumb students. Teacher mature man. Fed up. Man desperate teacher in classroom. No hope for better. Tired and exhausted. Difficult work. Emotional burnout. Teacher give up. Hate his job

^{Keri D. Ingraham
August 18, 2022
Unions

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Teachers’ Unions’ Blame Game

_{Keri D. Ingraham
August 18, 2022
Unions

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American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten was instrumental in keeping kids locked out of in-person schooling as she mercilessly pushed the union’s self-serving political agenda. Now she uses the dire situation she helped create as the excuse for the teacher-shortage crisis. Read More ›

desert at sunset, rocky desert arizona with cacti under the setting sun,3D rendering

^{Keri D. Ingraham
August 12, 2022
Innovation, School Choice

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Arizona a Bright Beacon for Educational Freedom

_{Keri D. Ingraham
August 12, 2022
Innovation, School Choice

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As more edupreneurs come on the scene and parents are able to use their state-issued funding to select education for their children from an array of innovative options, quality and transparency will be demanded. Read More ›

^{Keri D. Ingraham
August 4, 2022
Education Policy, School Choice

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Break the K-12 Monopoly

_{Keri D. Ingraham
August 4, 2022
Education Policy, School Choice

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Combining the sheer number of unionized employees with the massive government funding of public schools produces a noncompetitive system counter to our country’s free marketing founding. Read More ›

Prague/Czech Republic -August 11. 2018 : LGBT Pride March

^{Keri D. Ingraham and Arina Grossu Agnew
July 28, 2022
Indoctrination

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Community Schools’ ‘Woke’ Indoctrination Agenda

_{Keri D. Ingraham and Arina Grossu Agnew
July 28, 2022
Indoctrination

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Currently, there are 10,000 community schools nationwide, equating to roughly six to eight percent of U.S. public schools. But if the federal government has its way, that number will increase dramatically. Read More ›

Captured in a metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia primary school, this photograph depicts a typical classroom scene, where an audience of school children were seated on the floor before a teacher at the front of the room, who was reading an illustrated storybook, during one of the scheduled classroom sessions. One of the female students was assisting the teacher, while the rest of the class listened attentively to the instructor’s narrative. — Photo by CDC on Unsplash

^{Keri D. Ingraham
June 27, 2022
Education Policy

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Are You Concerned About the Direction of American Public Schools?

_{Keri D. Ingraham
June 27, 2022
Education Policy

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Now is the time for transformational change in our nation’s K-12 education system. Parents must have access to alternatives. The radical indoctrination must stop. And robust learning must occur. Read More ›

Burning sheet of paper in the male hand.

^{Keri D. Ingraham
May 30, 2022
Education Policy, School Choice

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Democrats Are Gaslighting American Parents About School Vouchers

_{Keri D. Ingraham
May 30, 2022
Education Policy, School Choice

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Defunding public schools — even “stealing money” from them — is how the far-left and teachers’ unions term any attempt to offer parents more choice around education. For them, it’s about money and power, not children and high-quality learning. Read More ›

President Joe Biden walks along the Colonnade of the White House Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, en route to the Oval Office. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)

^{Andrew McDiarmid
April 30, 2022
School Choice

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Biden Undermines Parents in Remarks to Teachers

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 30, 2022
School Choice

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Do kids in America’s classrooms belong to the teachers? President Joe Biden seems to think so. In remarks to teachers this week at a White House event honoring national and state teachers of the year, Biden told educators that their students “are not somebody else’s children. Read More ›

Teacher reading book to elementary school children in class

^{Walter Myers III
April 27, 2022
Education Policy

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What do Critical Race Theorists Think of the Current State of K-12 Education?

_{Walter Myers III
April 27, 2022
Education Policy

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What critical race theorist Derrick Bell saw as the primary barrier to equal education, which will be surprising to many, is teacher unions and others who have vested interests in maintaining the status quo of public education. Bell was a proponent of charter schools, tuition voucher programs, and independent schools. Read More ›