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American Parents Should Declare Independence From Government-Run Schools

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Shanxi Omoniyi | July 6, 2024 (The Lion) — On the 248th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, we should consider declaring independence from today’s public education system. While dissatisfaction with government-funded schools has been growing for years, we haven’t yet found a document explaining the causes and objections in a […]

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Top-Ranked Florida Sees K-12 Test Scores Improve Again

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Jillian Schneider | July 6, 2024 (The Lion) — Florida’s public school students continue to improve in core subjects, recent testing data revealed. The Florida Department of Education (FDOE) released the latest test scores on Monday, using year-of-year analysis and “progress monitoring,” which tracks learning over the course of a single year. “The substantial gains achieved by

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Loudoun Tightens Cellphone Policy for Upcoming School Year

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Faith Perkins | July 5, 2024 (The Lion) — The Loudoun County School Board in Virginia has approved a stricter cellphone policy, aiming to minimize distractions and enhance students’ focus on academics. Policy 8655 bans mobile devices in elementary grades, allows middle schoolers to keep them stored in lockers in silent mode, and requires high schoolers

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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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