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  • Public Schools: Tearing Human Minds to Pieces?

    Public Schools: Tearing Human Minds to Pieces?0

    Recently CNN and the Human Rights Campaign partnered to present an hours long forum with the Democratic presidential candidates on LGBT issues and the proposed Equality Bill. Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, and the rest all endorsed the bill, which would, among other things, repress biblical teaching and remove tax-exempt status from churches holding traditional beliefs regarding

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  • Public Schools Shouldn’t Be Teaching ‘Values’

    Public Schools Shouldn’t Be Teaching ‘Values’0

    America’s public schools are getting worse, and part of the reason why is that they have taken on too much responsibility. This point was made by the famous historian Jacques Barzun in his preface to his 1983 book Teacher in America: “There [in public schools], instead of initiatives to develop native intelligence and give it

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  • Public Schools Aren’t Taking Security Seriously

    Public Schools Aren’t Taking Security Seriously0

    Public high schools still aren’t taking school security seriously. Last month, hundreds of thousands of students in the Denver area stayed home from school when a woman in Florida suggested online that she was “obsessed” with the Columbine shootings. The woman, named Sol Pais, disappeared from her home near Miami in mid-April. Soon after, her

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  • Public Schools Are Spending Money Like Crazy, Despite Sharp Enrollment Declines

    Public Schools Are Spending Money Like Crazy, Despite Sharp Enrollment Declines2

    The public education system has been failing students for years. From misappropriating funds to providing inadequate lessons and passing illiterate students; public schools are losing support. Despite this they continue receiving extensive budgets which do not properly represent enrollment rates, attendance numbers, or staffing issues. While it is true that 2020 was an extremely difficult year for

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  • Public School Teacher Has Been Late 111 Times in Two Years, Keeps Job

    Public School Teacher Has Been Late 111 Times in Two Years, Keeps Job0

    • August 31, 2015

    Public school teachers have some of the most envious job protections among any in the workforce. They receive tenure after only two or three years, which makes it extremely difficult and costly to fire them. The latest case in point: Arnold Anderson, an elementary school teacher in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Over the past two

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  • Public School Spending: More Isn’t Necessarily Better

    Public School Spending: More Isn’t Necessarily Better0

    • June 5, 2019

    Public school per-pupil spending has increased for the fifth consecutive year, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The county’s top-five spenders for 2017 are New York ($23,091), the District of Columbia ($21,974), Connecticut ($19,322), New Jersey ($18,920) and Vermont ($18,290). California comes in at number 21, spending $12,143 per pupil (see Summary

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