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Loudoun School Board Wants Conservatives to Shut Up, Aide Says

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Jillian Schneider | June 25, 2024 (The Lion) — The Loudoun County, Virginia school board wants to “stifle” its aides from speaking critically against the board and district, one employee says. At its recent meeting, the Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) Board proposed revisions to policies for the board’s staff aides, including to “refrain from conduct that actively disparages, […]

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School Choice Scholarships Uplift Low-Income, Minority Students in Philadelphia

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Jillian Schneider | June 15, 2024 (The Lion) — Philadelphia students who receive school choice scholarships are twice as likely to be proficient in reading and math, a new report reveals. Children’s Scholarship Fund Philadelphia (CSFP), a nonprofit scholarship-granting organization in Pennsylvania, released a report that found school choice students easily outperformed their public-school counterparts in the

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Indiana’s School Choice Program Sees Record Participation

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Jillian Schneider | June 5, 2024 (The Lion) — School choice programs are exploding across the nation, and Indiana is no exception. The Indiana Department of Education (DOE) released a new report on its Choice Scholarship program, which initially launched in 2011 and expanded to become nearly universal last year. Participation is limited to families at or below 400%

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Spence Attended Out-of-Town Conferences Amid Overdose Crisis

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Jillian Schneider | June 3, 2024 (The Lion) — A Virginia superintendent spent thousands attending out-of-town conferences while his district was embroiled in a drug crisis, a public records request revealed. Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) Superintendent Aaron Spence spent over a month traveling to various conferences while students were overdosing on fentanyl. One of

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Study Suggests School Choice Could Help Mend America’s Partisan Divide

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Jillian Schneider | May 23, 2024 (The Lion) — School choice may help students overcome the growing divisiveness observed by cultural commentators today – and do more good for the public than public education itself, a new study suggests. The research found private and religious schools are better conductors of civil knowledge and behaviors than public schools,

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School Leaves Families in the Dark After Teacher Allegedly Grooms 12-Year-Old

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Jillian Schneider | May 6, 2024 (The Lion) — Wisconsin parents are outraged after their school district kept families in the dark about a middle school teacher accused of grooming a 12-year-old student. “Their silence is deafening,” said parent Kristy Murphy at Monday’s protest of the Kenosha Unified School District (KUSD). “We’re not going to stop until

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Private and Parochial Schools Produce Better Citizens Than Public Schools, New Research Finds

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Jillian Schneider | April 24, 2024 (The Lion) — The movement to establish public schools in America was based around a simple idea, namely that a widely educated populus would benefit the nation by being better citizens. Horace Mann, also known as the father of the common school, even said common (public) schools “may become the most

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‘Choice Lifted All Boats’: Catholic School Enrollment Rises in Florida

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John Ransom | April 23, 2024 (The Lion) — While traditional public school enrollment declines nationwide, Florida’s expanding school choice options have Catholic enrollment zooming in the Sunshine State. That’s according to experts at one Florida scholarship program, Step Up for Students. The trend in Florida could be instructive nationally in helping get kids back to

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Investigators Looking at Possible Cover-Up at School Where Teacher Was Shot

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John Ransom | April 16, 2024 (The Lion) — Prosecutors in Virginia are now investigating why the disciplinary records of a 6-year-old student at Richneck Elementary disappeared after the student shot a teacher. “We’ll work with the school system to try to ferret out how this happened,” Newport News Commonwealth’s Attorney Howard Gwynn said at a news

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