The U.S. Department of Education doesn't educate people, explains Neal McCluskey. It takes $, burns some off in bureaucracy, then sends the remainder back with rules attached. Cato Institute Cato Press

If someone gives you a history of school choice that ignores everything before 1955, doesn't mention liberal support in the 60s & 70s, and dodges crucial liberty and pluralism arguments for choice, they aren't even close to seriously engaging with choice.

The school choice movement isn't some sort of money-grubbing conspiracy. As I examine in The Fractured Schoolhouse, choice, and arguments for it, are centuries old, and the liberty and pluralism concerns are very important. cato.org/books/fracture…

After seeing how education choice helped her own kids, Sharon Sedlar founded PA Families for Education Choice to help ensure all PA families have access to—and knowledge of—learning environments that work best for their children. Learn more in today's Cato CEF Friday Feature. cato.org/blog/friday-fe…

The infrastructure to support families and educators is growing as choice expands. A movement evolving from insurgent to established. cato.org/blog/friday-fe…

One of numerous reasons to get rid of the U.S. Department of Education and many of the programs it runs? Our time-bomb national debt. cato.org/commentary/nei…

Colleen Hroncich Sharon Sedlar Cato CEF We are honored to be featured, Colleen! Thank you!!!

When you dig into public school book "bans" you find that they are not all that prevalent, but there is also widespread support for keeping out books depending on content and reader age. cato.org/blog/new-surve… That is not just Astroturf anger-mongers.

Of course, there are diverse ways to define "failing," & no one should have to pay once in taxes for a government school they think is doing a bad job, on top of that for a school they prefer: Christians Don’t Have to Enroll in Failing Public Schools nationalreview.com/2024/09/christ…

This op-ed misses the fundamental purpose of school choice: To have an education system consistent with a free and diverse society. For that, a state needs the ability to let $ follow all kids to education options their families choose. courier-journal.com/story/opinion/…

Nearly half of student borrowers have not been repaying taxpayers: "The data shows that just over half of borrowers who should have been making payments have actually made them over the past year." And that's after 3.5 years of frozen repayment. wpbf.com/article/pandem…

Another NPR report on school choice with important errors & omissions: - No mention that a 2022 referendum drive failed to get enough signatures to challenge choice - The state only reports students not in pub school immediately - not ever, as the report implies - before using

Read more to get the full school choice story: cato.org/blog/universal… foxnews.com/politics/arizo… azed.gov/communications… cato.org/events/peace-t… ednc.org/05-06-2024-see…

Andrew Gillen discusses student loan forgiveness on NPR affiliate GBH News and The Hechinger Report’s College Uncovered podcast cato.org/multimedia/med… via Cato Institute It hurts taxpayers and encourages even worse tuition inflation.

Private institutions should be able to set their own admissions criteria: politico.com/news/2024/09/3…

Get rid of the U.S. Department of Education? That's crazy! 😱 Oh, wait... 😯 washingtonpost.com/education/2024…

This ethnics studies censorship is inherently a government schooling problem. Whether the state or a school district decides what is biased material, government is deciding what is, or is not, acceptable to teach. sbsun.com/2024/09/30/in-… #WWFSchool

It's the exact same problem with book "banning": Government decides what books to stock or not stock, teach or not teach. It's also why it's crucial to understand that public schools are government schools: It's inherently dangerous to society when government, with a legal

It's understandable that people think federal student loans make college more affordable, says Neal McCluskey. Until you think of the perverse, long-term incentives. Cato Institute Cato Press