-
- Analysis
How Can Ohio Pull Itself Up for Family Status Ranking?
Ohio is below average in family rankings, according to a recent report that measures family strength and stability across all 50 states. But two top elected officials in the Buckeye State say promoting fatherhood and lowering the tax burden could help improve the situation. Last month, the Center for Christian Virtue released its 2026 Family…Rebecca Downs -
- Opinion
2 Anti-School Choice Campaigns in Arizona Mislead Voters
Arizona’s trailblazing Empowerment Scholarship Accounts program enables the families of more than 102,000 students to choose the learning environments that work best for their children. All Arizona K-12 students are eligible for an education savings account, which lets families direct their children’s education funding toward private schools, tutoring, curricula, therapies, and other educational expenses that…Jason Bedrick -
- Opinion
School Choice Demands Improved Student Transportation
School choice and student transportation have a lot of Venn diagram overlap. A 2009 survey of parents in Denver and Washington, D.C., found that more than a quarter of respondents reported not enrolling their child in the school they preferred due to transportation difficulties. The Heritage Foundation recently released a report on modernizing student transportation for an era of school choice. Currently,…Matthew Ladner -
- Opinion
Corruption Is Part of Why School District ‘Democracy’ Is Rigged and Wasteful
In 2019, the Scottsdale Unified School District in Arizona spent over $20 million to tear down and completely rebuild a school named Pima Elementary. This year, it voted to close the school. Pima Elementary, designed for up to 840 students, reopened at less than 60% of that capacity, and it continued to decline. This fall,…Matthew Ladner -
- Opinion
School Choice Breaks Government’s Grip on Education
Some school choice critics argue that allowing taxpayer dollars to follow students to private schools or homeschooling will inevitably lead to more state control over independent education. They claim that “with government shekels come government shackles.” But such fearmongering ignores reality—there are states where families get the shekels without the shackles, and others where families get the shackles without the shekels. State…Corey DeAngelis -
- Opinion
Be Not Afraid: School Choice Is a Winning Issue
There are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and the claim that any school choice proposal will spell doom for public schools. With each new legislative proposal, the Chicken Littles arrive like clockwork, squawking that the sky is falling. Case in point: Mississippi, where the state Legislature is considering the Mississippi Education Freedom Act, a…Jason Bedrick -
- News
EXCLUSIVE: At Least Half the States Will Adopt School Choice, McMahon Predicts
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Secretary of Education Linda McMahon expects half of U.S. states to opt in to education freedom initiatives. “I think we’ll get at least to 25 and hopefully more,” she told The Daily Signal in an exclusive interview. McMahon said she is going to make a big announcement designating Jan. 25–31 as National…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
