Public Education

New Orleans’ only ‘traditional’ public school wrestling with $500,000 deficit, low enrollment

A ballooning budget deficit, coupled with lower-than-projected enrollment, is forcing New Orleans’ sole “traditional” public school to reconsider its operational model. “Despite loud public support last year for the Orleans… Read More

Public Education

Navy veteran, former schoolteacher finds public education ‘utterly inept’ at preparing youth for real life compared to military 

Despite all modern technological advances, the U.S. military’s “most impressive asset” remains its young servicemakers “often barely out of high school,” argues one Navy veteran.  “The Navy has mastered the… Read More

Government

DeSantis expected to sign bill allowing charters to share public school facilities

Florida’s leadership in educational freedom took another step forward this week when lawmakers passed a bill allowing charter schools to “co-locate” inside traditional public school buildings. Republicans advanced the measure… Read More

Government

Hillsdale president celebrates end of ‘Soviet’ US Dept. of Education, champions local school control

The U.S. Department of Education is a “bureaucracy-ridden system” with “more employees in public education today who are not teachers than the teachers; and that means it’s sort of like… Read More