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Jonathan Butcher is the Will Skillman Fellow in Education at The Heritage Foundation. Students keep their distance and wear masks during the first day of in-person classes at Arroyo Vista Elementary School in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA on September 29, 2020. MediaNews Group / Orange County Register / Getty Images
Key Takeaways
Families and policymakers alike should tire of teachers’ unions’ attempts to maintain power when they are not delivering for our students.
Policymakers approved new spending to protect public classrooms, like the $4 million spent by Philadelphia schools to improve school ventilation systems.
Today’s drop in enrollment among kindergartners down 10.5% in the region signals increases in charter, homeschool, and private-school students tomorrow.
The difference is, the rainbow coalition that is the education choice movement also has been working to ensure all parents have the power to do what Weingarten’s friends and family did that is, to choose the learning options they know are best for their children, instead of being stuck with what the state assigns.
Millions of parents need those options now more than ever. How twisted, though, that it’s often because of union leaders that they both need them and can’t get them. Teachers unions are a leading reason that parents across America can’t access the in-person learning they want for their kids. At the same time, it’s the teachers unions who, for decades, have been the roadblock to expanding choice.
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Will New US Ed Secretary Support Homeschooling?
February 02, 2021
The new federal secretary of education will be taking over in the midst of a worldwide pandemic that has led to an upheaval of American schooling.
Miguel Cardona
President Biden’s nominee for education secretary, Miguel Cardona, has yet to be confirmed by the Senate, but he will likely be approved without much opposition. Part of the reason for that is his lack of experience, relative to other education officials in DC he’s a blank slate with few controversial comments on record, something that will work in his favor during the often-contentious Senate hearings.