Lindsey M. Burke researches and writes on federal and state education issues as the Will Skillman fellow in education policy at The Heritage Foundation. Read her research.
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Before hitting the road for their summer vacations, the justices of the Supreme Court announced last week that they would hear a major school choice… Read More
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American colleges and universities are failing in one of their most basic missions: to equip students with the tools they need for a career. Many… Read More
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For 15 years, the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program has been a District of Columbia institution. Yet the program, which provides scholarships to children from low-income… Read More
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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
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Elizabeth Warren wants free college for every American. But what the Massachusetts senator doesn’t seem to realize is just how much more costly college would… Read More
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Since 1965, federal taxpayers have poured an estimated $2 trillion into education programs associated with President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty. But despite this staggering… Read More
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., unveiled Tuesday a proposal to subsidize universal early education and child care through federal subsidies. According to The Huffington Post, “no… Read More
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Friday that the state legislature intends to establish Equal Opportunity Scholarships designed to end the current waiting list on the… Read More
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Americans need more education choice, but just as importantly, we need to preserve the invaluable system of federalism that has been at the cornerstone of… Read More
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It’s amazing how far school choice has come since the first National School Choice Week was held in 2011. That year, 18 states and Washington,… Read More
