Education funding should be given to students through their parents, not to institutions, witnesses testified before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on April 18. The committee hearing examined the merits of school-choice programs, one of which is currently under consideration.  H.R. 531, the Educational Choice for Children Act, would create a tax…

“Let’s give public school teachers a raise,” President Joe Biden said in his State of the Union address on Feb. 7. Other Democrats have taken up the drumbeat, even suggesting a $60,000 national minimum salary for educators. The idea has gained support from education advocates. Yet even some who advocate for increasing teacher compensation believe…

Cyberattacks on U.S. schools are on the rise, but basic security measures are relatively simple and inexpensive to take, says a school cybersecurity expert. Cyber criminals are increasingly targeting schools, according to a Jan. 2022 report from U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Yet many cyberattacks are relatively simple to…

Cyberattacks against K-12 schools in the United States are increasing, but efforts to combat them are hampered by inadequate staffing and security procedures as well as a lack of data collection and communication between federal agencies overseeing school security. Phishing, ransomware, denial of service attacks, and video conference disruptions hit at least 45 U.S. school…

This episode will premiere on Tuesday, Aug. 2, at 7:30 p.m. ET. “You had the teachers unions lobbying the CDC to make it more difficult to reopen schools in person so that they could hold children’s education hostage to secure multiple multibillion-dollar ransom payments from the taxpayer. And it worked for them. They received about…

“You had the teachers unions lobbying the CDC to make it more difficult to reopen schools in person so that they could hold children’s education hostage to secure multiple multibillion-dollar ransom payments from the taxpayer. And it worked for them. They received about $190 billion in supposed COVID relief.” At the FreedomFest conference in Las…

This episode will premiere on Tuesday, Aug. 2, at 7:30 p.m. ET. “You had the teachers unions lobbying the CDC to make it more difficult to reopen schools in person so that they could hold children’s education hostage to secure multiple multibillion-dollar ransom payments from the taxpayer. And it worked for them. They received about…

This episode will premiere on Tuesday, Aug. 2, at 7:30 p.m. ET. “You had the teachers unions lobbying the CDC to make it more difficult to reopen schools in person so that they could hold children’s education hostage to secure multiple multibillion-dollar ransom payments from the taxpayer. And it worked for them. They received about…

This episode will premiere on Thursday, July 21, at 7:30 p.m. ET.  America’s current education system is antiquated, wasteful, and “bent on saving and serving itself,” argues former U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. She is one of the very few department heads to have advocated for the abolition of the agency she ran. Education…

America’s current education system is antiquated, wasteful, and “bent on saving and serving itself,” argues former U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. She is one of the very few department heads to have advocated for the abolition of the agency she ran. Education gaps have only widened since the establishment of the federal Department of…