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Jillian Schneider | April 2, 2025 (The Lion) — When public school activists attack school choice, they often claim choice programs will harm disadvantaged students, such as minorities, low-income students and especially those with special needs. After all, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act only applies to public schools. Private schools have far fewer legal […]

Shanxi Omoniyi | March 26, 2025 (The Lion) — Do you want to stay young for longer? Then have more children, a recent study from Rutgers Health and Yale University suggests. “Parenting more children is associated with higher brain-wide functional connectivity, especially in networks associated with movement and sensation,” researchers concluded in PNAS, the peer-reviewed journal of

Shanxi Omoniyi | February 28, 2025 (The Lion) — If the nation’s public schools received grade cards, nearly all this year would be receiving an F, at least from the public.  Almost 3 of every 4 respondents in a recent Gallup poll are dissatisfied with the current system, marking “the highest dissatisfaction rate since the

John Ransom | February 18, 2025 (The Lion) — The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced it was axing 70 grants totaling $373 million at the U.S. Department of Education (DOE). The grants were made under the Biden administration to further diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) goals. “One [grant program] trained teachers to ‘engage in

Adam Wittenberg | January 28, 2025 (The Lion) — The United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that could result in public funds being used for a religious charter school, something unprecedented in the U.S. The high court agreed Friday to take the case involving the virtual Catholic charter school, which will

Jillian Schneider | January 23, 2025 (The Lion) — A government report released incriminating data last week that dispels the myth that public education serves all students equally. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights report compiles nationwide numbers from the 2021-22 school year on a range of topics. New data points included tracking the number of

New Study Debunks Union Claims Jillian Schneider | December 31, 2024 (The Lion) — Researchers have debunked the claim that pro-union states have higher average wages than right-to-work states.  Despite widespread claims that labor unions boost wages, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy found right-to-work states were the ones with higher wages.  Right-to-work laws, which prohibit companies