Stories From the Frontlines of Education Freedom
Real stories from real people putting kids first in education
Featured Stories
View MoreIn our government-run public schools, students often come last.
It’s time to put kids first. It’s time to give parents a choice in how and where their children learn. And it’s time to allow education funding to follow students, not ideologically-captured systems.
Teachers unions and union-supported school board members created a learning loss, discipline, and chronic absenteeism crisis by fighting to keep public schools closed during the Covid era.
Parents are eagerly pursuing alternatives to their residentially-assigned school, and using state education freedom programs to access education options that meet their children’s individual needs.
Parents need leverage. They deserve more control and better options when it comes to their children’s education. Education should prioritize students over systems.
Special education teacher Karin Majewski put her career on the line to help public school teachers and support staff learn about union alternatives.
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Explore Our Voices
Hear stories from students, teachers, parents, and school administrators about their experiences in schools, and how they’re trailblazing new education models that put children first.
Commentary
Fairfax County Public Schools Forfeits Case Challenging Its Transgender Policies
Fairfax County’s public school district’s leaders capitulated in court after a student challenged their…
Reports
A San Diego High School Gym Became the Set of a Sexually Charged 24 Hour Livestream
A public high school in California rented out its facilities to an adult content…
Reports
Here’s Why Public Education Has Become So Expensive
Spending on public education has grown nearly 50% since 1990, but that money has…
Commentary
Can Wisconsin’s ‘Teachers’ Bill of Rights’ Fix Student Behavior?
Classrooms across America have become disruptive, unruly, and unsafe. The Teachers’ Bill of Rights…
Reports
This State’s Reading Program Is a Roadmap to Revive Literacy
Once among the worst states for literacy education, Mississippi is now the only state…
Profile
Amy Riccardi Doesn’t Want To Be A Politician. She Wants To Be Students’ Advocate
This conservative school board candidate defied the odds to win her race in Virginia’s…
Commentary
Our Broken Education System Has Left College Students Unprepared, Unqualified
Students at some of the top universities in the country are struggling to meet…
Profile
Fairfax Teacher Ousted By Administrators After Fighting for Parental Rights
After a Centreville High School teacher informed school and district leaders that a minor…
Reports
How California’s ‘Parental Exclusion Policies’ Sparked a Constitutional Showdown
Veteran teachers are suing California over policies requiring schools to affirm a child’s “gender…
Reports
How This Virginia School District Is Stifling Conservative Voices
Prince William County schools freely host liberal clubs, but conservative students face obstacles. Officials…
Profile
Texas School Counselor Quits Her Job After SEL Curriculum Became Indoctrination
This two-decade counselor resigned from public education after witnessing Social Emotional Learning shift from…
Commentary
Loudoun County Public Schools is Misinterpreting Title IX and Abusing Students’ Free Speech Rights
Loudoun County’s public school district’s leaders are trying to suspend boys under a Title…
Profile
Wyoming Mom Fights School That Secretly Transitioned Her Daughter
A Wyoming teacher found her daughter’s school had secretly transitioned her, leading this mother…
Your Voices
“We haven’t had an advocate for these kids, only politicians…”
“I’m not the only teacher harassed…”
“Parents should have the right to determine the religious practices their children are being taught.”
“…it needed to stop; that they didn’t have to agree with me, but that I was her mother and she was a girl, and this was her name, and this is how it would be…”
“[Teachers are] scared to speak out because of the backlash.”
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