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Policy Chat | Debunking Education Freedom Myths During National School Choice Week

Ginny Gentles and Corey DeAngelis, senior fellow at American Federation for Children, will dispel the most common school choice myths

Evidence Suggests Private Schooling No More Likely Than Public to Fuel Right-Wing Militancy

Evidence Suggests Private Schooling No More Likely Than Public to Fuel Right‐​Wing Militancy SHARE For some people, a considerable worry about private education is that it might foster right‐​wing hate and militancy. This concern can be seen in a series of HuffPostarticles over the last few years sounding alarms about textbooks in some private schools, and in this recent op‐​ed attacking efforts to expand educational freedom in West Virginia. Says the latter: We have seen where this leads. In some Middle Eastern cultures, private schools called madrassas have been known to engage in religious and political indoctrination beginning at a very young age, even including combat training with military weapons. These are the people who brought down the twin towers of the World Trade Center.

Choice Does Not "Siphon" Public School Money: A Primer

Featuring Ben Scafidi (@edeconKSU1), Professor of Economics and Director of the Education Economics Center, Kennesaw State University; Martin Lueken, Director, Fiscal Research and Education Center, EdChoice; moderated by Neal McCluskey (@NealMcCluskey), Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute. COVID-19 has powerfully impacted K–12 schooling, making it especially clear that no single school can serve all diverse children and that families need options. As a result, at least 28 states have seen legislation introduced this year to increase or expand private school choice. Unfortunately, a myth that has long dogged school choice continues to stand in the way: that choice “siphons” money from public schools. In this forum, Ben Scafidi and Martin Lueken, who tackle the siphoning myth in the new Cato book

West Virginia Should Fund Students, Not Institutions