school choice

Labor Watch
Is Pastors for Texas Children a Front for Texas Teachers Unions?
Pastors for Texas Children, a left-of-center advocacy group in Texas, claims to be a charitable organization that is “not beholden to any special interest group.” If its electioneering activities over…
by Michael Watson on April 27, 2021

Labor Watch
Teachers Unions Don’t Always Get Their Way
Across the country, in states both red and blue, state legislatures are acting against union obstinacy to get children back into classrooms. Some are enacting even bolder reforms that will…
by Michael Watson on March 19, 2021

Labor Watch
It’s Time to Get Mad
When schools across the nation closed in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, few would have predicted that large swathes of the United States, almost alone among nations in…
by Michael Watson on January 28, 2021

Labor Watch
School Choice: Now More than Ever
Americans are beginning to wake up to the Biden administration’s obsequiousness to its paymasters in organized labor, and they are watching with growing alarm as teachers unions vow never to…
by Michael Watson on January 27, 2021

Featured Items
School Choice and Democracy: Friends or Foes?
A policy forum on school choice held on July 26 by the Cato Institute, a libertarian policy think tank, featured an informed and interactive debate on whether private school vouchers…
by Jacob Grandstaff on July 31, 2017

Philanthropy
Liberia’s broken education system: will school choice work?
Crossposted from Philanthropy Daily — This article is dated June 7, 2017 Follow the debates about school choice for long enough and you’ll unearth arguments that persist for decade after…
by Martin Morse Wooster on June 7, 2017

Education Reform
More disrespect for the poor from the Left
Over at PhilanthropyDaily.com, I have another piece on the Left’s curious disrespect for the poor. In this case, I’m puzzled: Why doesn’t the Left trust the poor to…
by Scott Walter on January 28, 2014