OPINIONFebruary 17Lindsey Burke: Biden backtracks on school reopenings – here's how left, unions put ideology before studentsWhen setting goals, it’s important not to lower the bar. Yet that’s exactly what the Biden administration has done with school reopenings.
OPINIONMarch 28, 2020Lindsey Burke: Coronavirus school closings should prompt states to pay parents to educate kids in other waysStates should provide emergency educations savings accounts to families for the remainder of the academic year. States should deposit into these parent-controlled accounts 90 percent of what the states would have spent on their children in the public school system from the time public classrooms were shut through the end of the school year.
OPINIONAugust 30, 2019Lindsey Burke: Universal school choice is needed – Your address shouldn't limit your child’s futureGovernment hurts children when it assigns them to schools that are failing every test of quality – safety, learning and civic literacy.
OPINIONApril 3, 2019Lindsey Burke, Mary Clare Amselem: Trump’s education budget cuts justifiedPresident Trump's proposal to cut Education Department spending by 10% will eliminate wasteful and ineffective programs.
OpinionMay 11, 2015Head Start's sad and costly secret -- what Washington doesn't want you to knowWashington’s 48-year experiment with federal preschool has failed to deliver long-lasting, positive developments for its participants. Still, many in Congress argue that the way to fix this is to increase funding for Head Start.
OpinionMay 7, 2015Why all the cool kids are reading Executive Order 13423If states stay on the Common Core bandwagon, say goodbye to “1984,” “Animal Farm” and “Brave New World.” No need for kids to be reading those books, anyway. They’ll be living them.
OpinionMay 7, 2015Teachers' union abandons 26,000 Michigan school childrenClasses were cancelled Tuesday in several Michigan school districts to accommodate the absence of hundreds of teachers, who were prompted by the union to call in “sick” to protest right-to-work legislation at the Michigan Capitol.
OpinionMay 7, 2015School Choice Missing In Obama's AddressPresident Obama's back to school speech on Tuesday didn't pass the educational opportunity test.
OpinionMay 7, 2015Can an iPad or Some Other Form of Technology Transform Education for Our Kids and Their Failing Schools?By letting technology transform how we deliver education, we can open up the rigid public education system to the benefits of the market, provide every child with access to a master teacher, harness the power of the Internet, and finally bring our education system into the 21st century.
OpinionMay 6, 2015No Child Left Behind waivers let Team Obama seize control of your child's educationThe Obama administration is not simply providing "waivers" to 10 states to provide relief from the onerous provisions of No Child Left Behind. Make no mistake, these are conditions-based waivers, and the strings attached to this “relief” further tether states to Washington and the Department of Education.