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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Public school teachers in Los Angeles are on strike, affecting half a million children attending some 900 public schools in the district. Although students in… Read More
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What is the measure of a good school? And who is best positioned to decide what works? For decades, policymakers and education officials have attempted… Read More
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Who would you rather have choose your child’s school—a politician or a bureaucrat? If you answered “neither,” you’re in good company with the conservatives in… Read More
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Meet Adonis Watt, the high school freshman running back from Arizona who happens to be blind. That’s right; Adonis, who plays football fearlessly for Brophy… Read More
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Is recognizing a “right to literacy” the solution to improved reading outcomes in America? Groups in at least three states think so. There are currently… Read More
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Another damaging Obama regulation is heading for the ash heap, which is great news for students. The New York Times and Wall Street Journal are… Read More
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K-12 education in the nation’s capital has struggled for decades. Yet since 2003, the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program—a voucher program open to low-income children in… Read More
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“Dems warn school vouchers for military families could ‘derail’ annual defense bill,” Politico reported last week. At the same time, special-interest groups, such as the… Read More
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Spending by Washington, D.C., public schools can be difficult to pin down. Estimates suggest spending is somewhere between $27,000 and $29,000 per child per year,… Read More
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When President Lyndon Johnson signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act into law in 1965, he vowed the unprecedented new federal intervention in K-12 education… Read More
