Stories From the Frontlines of Education Freedom
Real stories from real people putting kids first in education
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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.
Profile
New Mexico Mother Warns Parents Are Being Shut Out of Their Children’s Education
After repeated battles against public education officials over sex education, explicit books, and curriculum…
Commentary
The Merit Gap: How Eliminating Tests Failed Students and Schools
In 2020, many universities and magnet high schools eliminated standardized testing requirements as part…
Profile
Inside The Organization Providing Sex Education Material to Combat ‘The Gender Unicorn’
Inspired by her own childhood experience with gender dysphoria, Cynthia Breheny is creating books…
Profile
This Former Firefighter Is Forging the Future of Education Freedom
Denise Lever was a firefighter for more than a decade, but now helps other…
Profile
How Radical Gender Ideology Pushed One Family Out of New Mexico’s Public Schools
Dana Tapia pulled her 6-year-old son out of his New Mexico public school after…
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Former Wisconsin School Board Leader Exposed an Invasive School Policy, But Hundreds of Districts Still Have It
Former Menomonee Falls School Board President Dr. Nina Christensen led the effort to remove…
Commentary
Fairfax County Public Schools’ Leaders Consider Omitting Christmas as a Student Holiday
Students in Virginia’s Fairfax County are in the classroom five days a week for…
Profile
Why Cheryl Daley Walked Away From a Six-Figure Government Career to Homeschool Her Kids—With No Regrets
After questioning pandemic-era policies, this mom of two got curious about alternatives to conventional…
Reports
The Continued Failure of the Transgender Social Experiment in Loudoun County Public Schools
A transgender-identifying student in Virginia’s Loudoun County allegedly filmed more than 40 boys while…
Profile
From Mama Bear to Statewide Fighter: The Rise of Sonja Shaw
COVID school closures turned Sonja Shaw from a “soccer mom” into one of California’s…
Commentary
Why Charter Schools Have Succeeded Where Traditional Public Schools Failed
This National Charter Schools Week, we should learn from charter schools and the ways…
Commentary
You Can’t Appreciate Teachers While Systemically Undermining Them
Flowers and thank-you notes can’t pacify a profession that has been weighed down by…
Reports
Classrooms or Campaigns? The Battle Over Virginia’s Schools
Virginia legislators have passed three bills this year to dilute and politicize history and…
Your Voices
“They said, ‘This is when you’re going to start to decide what your gender is…’”
“I’m fighting for a better future for our daughter…”
“We could follow interests. We had flexibility…”
“People have asked us, ‘Why don’t you just leave New Mexico?’”
“…they will keep you in the dark on what’s actually happening to your kids…”
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