by Joshua Ferrer | Jun 5, 2015 | Education
An elementary school kitchen manager from Aurora, Colorado was fired this past Wednesday for providing hot meals to students who were not paid up on their school lunch accounts. “I had a first grader in front of me, crying, because she doesn’t have enough money for...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 4, 2015 | Blog, Education
While it's refreshing to see K-12 education become a prominent issue in the very early stages of the 2016 election campaigns, it's unfortunate to see support for the Common Core – the contentious new standards adopted by most states – become the focus of the debate....
by Emily Foster | May 29, 2015 | Education
Brody El-Achi, a rising junior at American University in Washington, D.C., is struggling with sky-high tuition while facing a static job market with stagnant wages. And he’s wondering if the struggle is worth it. "The fact that I have to pay over $230,000 for four...
by Jeff Bryant | May 28, 2015 | Blog, Education
For years, the progressive punchlist of issues has neglected education policy. Back in the 2012 election, education was mostly a no-show in presidential debates, and very few candidates were standard bearers for public schools, leaving these issues primarily to ballot...
by Jeff Bryant | May 21, 2015 | Blog, Education
The disturbing death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore while in police custody, and the ensuing riots after news of his death spread, have continued to prompt countless analyses of the chronic problems in our nation’s urban centers. My colleague Terrance Heath correctly...
by Emily Foster | May 19, 2015 | Education, Tax Reform
In Norway, students go to college tuition-free. In Denmark, students are even paid to go to higher education. In the U.S., college students currently face more than $1.2 trillion of education debt. If the United States wants to boost its middle class and rebuild its...
