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Education, Parents and Kids
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Arizona Made Every Child Eligible for an ESA, How the Idea Spread So FastEducation savings accounts began as a narrow Arizona program for children with disabilities, went universal in about a decade, and spread to other states. Vergara v. California, the Lawsuit That Put Teacher Tenure on TrialNine students won a trial-court ruling against California's tenure and layoff laws, lost on appeal, and left behind a policy case that belongs in legislatures. What a Teachers Union Contract Says and Why Every Parent Should Read OneA collective bargaining agreement shapes your child's school day more than most board votes, and it is a public document you can read for free. The School Staffing Surge, Hiring Outpaced Enrollment for DecadesPublic schools added non-teaching staff far faster than students, a choice that ate the money that could have raised teacher pay. Real Spending Per Pupil More Than Doubled Since 1970, So Where Are the GainsInflation-adjusted spending per student soared while 17-year-old scores stood still, which shows money alone is not the answer, and how it is spent is. What the Nation's Report Card Measures and What Proficient Really MeansNAEP is the one honest yardstick across states, and parents misread it because Proficient is a demanding standard, not grade level. The Reading Wars, How Whole Language Lost a Generation and Phonics Won BackSchools taught children to guess at words while the evidence for systematic phonics sat on the shelf, and a few states have finally acted on it. Lincoln, Justin Morrill and the Land Grant That Built the State UniversityThe Morrill Act of 1862 funded colleges of farming and the mechanic arts with federal land, not federal management, and it still asks what a university is for. Title IX Began as 37 Words in 1972, Here Is How It Grew Into a RulebookTitle IX began as one 37-word sentence tied to federal money, and five decades of regulations and letters built a code that no Congress ever voted on. Biden v. Nebraska and the Limits of a Secretary's Power to Cancel DebtBiden v. Nebraska held a 2003 emergency law did not let the Education Secretary cancel hundreds of billions in student loans, because Congress holds the purse. Tinker v. Des Moines and the Armbands That Protect Conservative Students TooTinker was a Vietnam protest case, but its rule that students keep their speech rights at school also shields the pro-life shirt and the flag. Madison's 1822 Letter on Why a Republic Needs Informed CitizensMadison's 1822 letter to W. T. Barry says self-government without public information is farce or tragedy, and it still frames civics and local schools. Jefferson's Plan to Educate Virginia, and Why the Legislature Said NoJefferson's 1779 bill for the diffusion of knowledge built schools from the ward up, failed on cost, and still teaches how to design education. Religion, Morality and Knowledge, the Northwest Ordinance's School ClauseArticle 3 of the Northwest Ordinance tied schools to self-government and morality, and left the building of them to the people, not to Congress. Mahmoud v. Taylor and the Storybooks That Brought Opt-Outs Back to SchoolIn Mahmoud v. Taylor the Court held that refusing an opt-out from storybook lessons burdened parents' free exercise, reviving Yoder. Wisconsin v. Yoder and the Amish Fathers Who Stopped School at Eighth GradeYoder held that the Free Exercise Clause shielded Amish families from schooling past eighth grade, and its reach and limits still matter to parents. The 1922 Oregon Law That Tried to Abolish Private Schools, and LostPierce v. Society of Sisters struck down Oregon's 1922 ban on private schooling, and its logic still protects a parent's right to direct a child's upbringing.
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