Jonathan Butcher is a senior policy analyst in The Heritage Foundation's Center for Education Policy and a senior fellow for the Goldwater Institute and the Beacon Center of Tennessee.
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Lawmakers intended with the 2017 tax cuts not only to promote economic growth and job creation and to allow families to keep more of their… Read More
EducationCommentary
State mottos should be built to last, and Alabama’s lawmakers just applied theirs—Audemus jura nostra defendere or “We dare defend our rights”—to one of the… Read More
EducationCommentary
A yogurt company, Chobani, has picked up the tab for unpaid school lunches in a Rhode Island school district. That’s a relief to the school… Read More
EducationCommentary
Three thousand and one hundred feet. That’s the distance between Hilltop Christian School in New Mexico and the Arizona border—but for students in the Navajo… Read More
EducationCommentary
Three Arizona students may soon learn a valuable lesson: There’s a difference between exercising your free speech on campus and blocking someone else’s attempt to… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The National School Lunch Program has changed dramatically since it began in 1946. What started as a grant program to help poor students and those… Read More
EducationCommentary
Teacher unions are now using strikes as a form of extortion. For the second time this year, a state’s teachers union and its members have… Read More
EducationCommentary
Cindie Smith is not one to shy away from a challenge. Having already raised two biological children, she adopted four children with special needs and… Read More
EducationCommentary
This year started with a reminder that we cannot take the safety of our children for granted, and Washington has ended the year by taking… Read More
EducationCommentary
Leading up to Tuesday’s election, Arizona’s teachers union and its allies were more bombastic than strategic. But despite the campaign against families’ ability to choose… Read More
