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Frances Floresca | August 15, 2023 (The Lion) — The children’s educational initiative of the conservative nonprofit PragerU has created videos and materials for use in public schools, and Florida is the first state to officially approve their use.  More states are soon to follow, reports Jill Simonian, the program’s director of outreach. PragerU Kids offers “educational, fun, patriotic […]

Jillian Schneider | August 13, 2023 (The Lion) — Charter schools outperform their traditional public-school counterparts despite receiving significantly less funding, recent studies show. The University of Arkansas released a new report analyzing nearly two decades’ worth of education funding from 16 states. It found charter schools have been chronically underfunded by 21% to 34% compared to

John Ransom | August 4, 2023 (The Lion) — A new survey released by the consumer credit company Wallet Hub found that almost half of all parents believe that public schools don’t provide a good value for the money. Even more – 83% – agree that the cost of education is out of control, according to the

Frances Floresca | August 8, 2023 (The Lion) — As students prepare to return to school, many parents are looking to send them to a new school.  Nearly half of parents have decided on or are currently considering a different school for one or more of their children, according to a National School Choice Week

John Ransom | July 27, 2023 (The Lion) — Parents Defending Education (PED) has released a report that shows China’s Communist Party (CCP) spending over $17 million on programs inside American K-12 classrooms, some of them near military bases. In targeting science and technology high schools and high schools near military bases, the CCP is suspected by

Jillian Schneider | July 23, 2023 (The Lion) — A Nebraska parent schooled a teachers’ union boss for opposing school choice in a video now circulating on Twitter. It happened as public school activists, such as Tim Royers, president of the Millard Education Association, are currently trying to undo a school choice bill that passed the Nebraska Legislature

Jillian Schneider | July 19, 2023 (The Lion) — Many education officials are concerned with the rise of chronic absenteeism among students. After all, schools can’t teach if students don’t attend. But an equally pressing, though less publicized, issue is that of teacher absenteeism. New data from the National Center for Education Statistics reveals teacher absenteeism

Jillian Schneider | July 11, 2023 (The Lion) — The president of the National Education Association had a lot to say about social justice at its annual meeting this week, and virtually nothing to say about academics.  Becky Pringle, president of the 3-million-member union, accused Florida – the assembly’s location – of being “Ground Zero for shameful,

Jillian Schneider | June 20, 2023 (The Lion) — Local and state school officials are offering hefty signing bonuses – as much as $50,000 – to combat the nationwide teacher shortage. Despite efforts in places such as New Jersey, South Carolina and Oklahoma, research shows such measures are ineffective. For example, Minnesota allocated $400,000 in