Mandatory Kindergarten Won’t Be Coming to California
Last week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed S.B. 70, a law passed by California’s Legislature that would have made kindergarten mandatory for children in the state. In vetoing the law, …
School Choice
Free to Decide; Who’s Really Pro-Choice?
A free society gives people the freedom to make choices, good and bad, within the law, so long as we do not violate the property rights of others. Now, many …
COVID Taught More Than 1 Million Parents the Value of School Choice
At least the pandemic had a silver lining. It taught parents that there are better alternatives to government schools. When COVID hit, bureaucrats in control were eager to close schools. …
Texas Lieutenant Governor Candidate Says ‘Vouchers Are for Vultures’
When Mike Collier, who’s running to be Texas’ next lieutenant governor, spoke to the state’s Democratic convention on July 17, he promised to “lead the legislature to amend our constitution to …
Arizona’s New Law Funds Students, Not Just Government-Run Schools
It’s good to watch your state lose its lead as a school choice innovator not because it’s backsliding, but because other states are making it easier for families to pick …
What’s Wrong With Abortion Federalism?
In this week’s Reason Roundtable, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and special guest senior editor Damon Root unpack the long-awaited SCOTUS ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health …
Sotomayor vs. Roberts on Religion, Schools, and the First Amendment
The First Amendment prohibits the government from “respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” In her dissent yesterday in the school choice case Carson v. Makin, …
My NBC News Article on Today’s Supreme Court Ruling Barring Discrimination Against Religious Schools in Maine School Choice Program
NBC News has just published my article on today’s Supreme Court decision in Carson v. Makin, which bars state school choice programs from discriminating against “sectarian” religious schools. Here is …
Supreme Court Strikes Down Maine’s Unconstitutional Tuition Program For Excluding Faith-Based Schools
The Supreme Court found that Maine’s decision to exclude religious schools from its tuition assistance program violates the First Amendment. The FederalistThe Federalist is an American conservative online magazine and …
School Choice and Religious Liberty Advocates Just Won Big at the Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a big win for both school choice and religious liberty advocates in 2020 when it held, in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, that if …