school choice

Education Reform
School Choice: The Battle for Parental Rights and Educational Freedom
On January 29, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order in favor of school choice. While the executive order won't suddenly give parents and students access to the billions…
by Kali Fontanilla on February 18, 2025

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #348: Fix Education Bloat by Breaking Teacher Union Bloat (with Corey DeAngelis)
Almost everyone can look at the education landscape in America today and see that something has gone very, very wrong. Spending per student has increased, and there is no evidence…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on January 17, 2025

Labor Watch
The Fight for True Education: A Brief History
Education is the process of teaching and developing knowledge and understanding in others. Sadly, public schools have become an increasing source of frustration and even despair for parents, students, and…
by Kali Fontanilla on August 16, 2023

Labor Watch
The Fight for True Education: Academic Transparency
Despite major opposition from the two most prominent teachers’ unions, education advocates are fighting for your kids in the public school classroom. At their urging, some states have enacted academic…
by Kali Fontanilla on August 16, 2023

Labor Watch
The Fight for True Education: Signs of Hope
Homeschooling, academic transparency, and school choice laws have been passed in red states to give some relief to parents who can’t or don’t want to homeschool. Even in blue states,…
by Kali Fontanilla on August 16, 2023

Labor Watch
The Fight for True Education: Refusal to Deceive Parents
The fight for true education in America is not over; it has only just begun. There has been an awakening to the stranglehold the Left has had on the education…
by Kali Fontanilla on August 16, 2023

Organization Trends
Florida Is Racist! Stay Away!
The NAACP recently issued a travel advisory warning black Americans about the dangers of traveling to Florida. The May 20, 2023, advisory warns black Americans that "Florida is openly hostile…
by Kali Fontanilla on May 31, 2023

Education Reform
There Is Hope for Education
Expanding school choice, scrutiny of curriculum containing critical race theory, parental rights legislation, academic transparency laws, banning sexually explicit books from school libraries and classrooms—Randi Weingarten, president of the American…
by Kali Fontanilla on May 9, 2023

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #254: The State of School Choice
In 2022, Arizona passed one of the most comprehensive school-choice programs in the nation. But later that year, the state elected Katie Hobbs, a governor who is backed by the…
by Hayden Ludwig, Michael Watson on January 27, 2023

Philanthropy
A Conversation with Archdiocese of Boston Schools Superintendent Thomas W. Carroll (Part 1 of 2)
The educational administrator talks to Daniel P. Schmidt and Michael E. Hartmann about Catholic education and identity, creating a community of learners and believers, and the challenge of raising money…
by Daniel P. Schmidt, Michael E. Hartmann on November 15, 2022