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School districts in Garland County, Arkansas, are required to comply with a 1989 law that determines parent choice of district based on race.

Catholic League president Bill Donohue said that both the Democrat Party and Black Lives Matter resemble the Ku Klux Klan in their vicious opposition to school choice.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that states may provide tax credits to those donating to scholarship funds for religious schools.

To Democrats, black people are cannon fodder, expendable soldiers in their social justice war for power. As Democrats safely social distance, they urge their cannon fodder to take it to the streets.

A poll found that since the coronavirus has caused school closures, 52 percent of parents have a more favorable opinion of homeschooling.

School vouchers have proven to bring about a win-win situation for education, improving both private and public school outcomes, a new study reveals.

During his State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced that Janiyah Davis, a fourth-grade student in Philadelphia, PA, would be awarded a scholarship to attend a school of her choice.

President Donald Trump said during his State of the Union address on Tuesday that an “inclusive society” is one that ensures “every young American gets a great education.”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Sunday openly wondered why the American people would support a presidential candidate who “lies to them,” failing to address the long list of falsities she has promoted over the years.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, a former close friend of Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), said he lost because he sided with the “Ilhan Omar wing” of his party.

The largest Minnesota teachers’ union is condemning a proposed amendment to the state Constitution that would make a quality public school education for all students a civil right.

A “tremendous awakening” is happening in the country as more black voters are abandoning the Democrat Party and turning to support Trump.

Hundreds of charter school advocates arrived outside the Democrat debate at Loyola Marymount University on Thursday evening, swamping the small demonstrations of support for the various candidates.

The Pew Research Center asserts that the Democrat Party is divided by race, especially where faith and marriage are concerned.

Amidst the hubbub of the impeachment hearings and the release of the Department of Justice’s Inspector General report on Monday, President Donald Trump took the time to focus on school choice.

Black Americans are pulling away from the Democrat Party on two dominant issues in the 2020 elections: abortion and education.

Warren spent decades stealing the privileges and promotions that came with her false claim of being a Cherokee Indian, and she’s lying about her children’s background.

An Angel Mom is urging black Americans to stand with Trump, whose school choice policies offer low-income black families an opportunity to change the trajectory from poverty to success.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is facing backlash for telling a school choice supporter that her children went to public schools, despite the fact that her son attended a private school, the Washington Free Beacon reported.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) proposed to end school vouchers in her public education plan released Monday, despite praising them in the past for helping “take the pressure off parents” and encouraging competition.

A new poll finds 81 percent of Democrat primary voters, including 89 percent of black Democrat primary voters, support charter schools.

The education views of Democrat 2020 contender Andrew Yang may differ from many of his colleagues in that he said data show “65-70 percent of our students’ outcomes are determined outside of the school.”

A poll released by Education Next finds those who identify as Democrats are divided on the issue of school choice along racial and ethnic lines, with black and Hispanic Democrats more supportive of charter schools and school vouchers than whites in the party.

Recently released education-centered polls reveal a sharp divide between black and white Democrats over support for charter schools.

Teachers unions in West Virginia claim to have walked out of their classrooms a second time in a year “for the kids,” but a resident journalist says many parents and teachers are keeping quiet about their distrust of that claim due to “overwhelming fear and intimidation related to unions.”

The #RedForEd campaign has spurred West Virginia teachers to walk out of their classrooms Tuesday, nearly one year since their last teacher strike.

Conservative parents and education activists are expressing alarm over ostensibly well-intentioned school choice legislation that seeks to ensure families of children in private schools, religious schools, and homeschools receive the same tax advantages as those of public school children.

A recent column in Reason magazine argues that homeschooled students are smarter and more tolerant than their publicly-educated peers.

In a post at Truth in American Education, parent activists Denis Ian and Michelle Moore write that – because of the radical shift leftward they have taken – teachers’ unions are actually at war with parents.

An author of a study that examined the effects of the Common Core State Standards on school choice says the Obama-era K-12 school reform is the “worst large-scale educational failure in 40 years.”

Staff of the U.S. Education Department say rumors that secretary Betsy DeVos will be resigning her post are unfounded.

“This is absolutely criminal to deprive our children of the education they deserve,” he continued. “The extra tax money that they passed in prop 30 it’s not going into the classroom; it’s going to administrators and pensions. We need to get that money into the classroom and we need to give our children and our parents the education they deserve and that includes building more charters and giving parents choice and encouraging homeschooling.”

The effects of Brexit are already being felt on public services and in the job market as more children get their first choice of primary school and salaries rise.

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told radio show host Hugh Hewitt that Congress must address mental health issues in schools in order to prevent another deadly mass shooting like the one in Florida on Wednesday.

Homeschoolers in the United States are debating whether an amendment to the GOP tax reform bill that would expand 529 College Savings Plans to allow use of tax-exempt funds to pay for homeschooling expenses will put homeschoolers at risk of federal oversight.

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos will address former GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Excellence in Education (FEE) when it celebrates its 10th annual summit.