Addressing education issues related to: parental rights, local control of schools, and classical liberal arts education.
Shane Vander Hart makes three observations about U.S. Secretary Betsy DeVos’ speech at the American Enterprise Institute event, Bush-Obama school reform: lessons learned, on January 16, 2018.
President Trump orders a review of federal rules, regulations, and guidance related to K-12 education to ensure it respects local and state control.
The Utah Legislature passed a resolution calling for the repeal of mandates within ESEA and the abolishment of the U.S. Department of Education.
Shane Vander Hart provides eight action steps a presidential candidate can do to address the involvement of the federal government in education.
U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT): “Schools are not factories; education can’t be systematized; learning can’t be centrally planned.”
the U.S. Senate voted in favor – 85 to 12 – to pass the Every Student Achieves Act, the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) that replaces No Child Left Behind.
The ESEA reauthorization conference report, S.1177, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) advanced in the U.S. Senate on a 84 to 12 cloture vote.
Georgia State Senator William Ligon (R-Brunswick) explains to Congress in an open letter why they should reject reauthorizing ESEA.
A late-stage draft of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) reauthorization has been released that confirms much of what has already been leaked.
Because this is the largest education bill Congress will pass in a decade Speaker Paul Ryan should make the ESEA reauthorization bill public for 60 days.