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Cato Expert Explains the Public Schooling Battle Map
This map summarizes a relatively small but particularly painful subset of battles: those involving basic rights, moral values, or individual identity. … The conflicts are often intensely personal, and guarantee that if one core value wins, another will lose.
Read MoreToday: CEAFU Lunch Break re: CATO’s Public Schooling Battle Map
The recording of the Live Broadcast is viewable below and at the following YouTube Link Today: We hope you will attend today’s (Pacific Coast) CEAFU Lunch Break with Neal McCluskey…
Read MoreBiden limits Charter Schools as an AFT-NEA Teacher Union Payback Before Mid-Terms
No President has been more hostile to charters schools than Joe Biden, and his Department of Education is proving it with proposed rules that undermine the federal Charter Schools Program. The assault is triggering a bipartisan political backlash.
Read MoreMinnesota Teacher Union Bosses Ignore Reality
In 1997-1998, as education journalist Mike Antonucci recently noted, citing the archives of the Digest of Education Statistics, MPS “educated 49,157 students” at a cost of $13,076 per pupil in 2018 dollars.
By the 2017-18 academic year, MPS enrollment “had dropped to 32,722 students and the district spent $16,571” per pupil. That’s a 27% increase, above and beyond inflation as measured by the U.S. Labor Department.
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