September 10, 2013 Why is Teacher Health Insurance so Expensive? As you may have heard, there’s a pretty significant debate going on at the state capitol this week with regards to public school employee…
August 27, 2013 Justice Department Asks Court to Block Louisiana Voucher Program in Some Schools If you’ve read much of this blog, then you may have realized that I like discussing the topics of school choice and school vouchers,…
August 16, 2013 California Court: Lay School Employees May Administer Insulin Earlier this week, the California Supreme Court, in American Nurses Association v. Torlakson, ruled that trained school personnel who are not licensed health care…
August 5, 2013 AG Weighs In On Arming School District Staff As I recently discussed here, a bill was filed in the last legislative session that would have allowed school districts to contract with existing…
July 26, 2013 Eighth Circuit Finds School Choice Case Moot In May, I wrote about the new school choice law and how it will be applied in the upcoming school year. In that post,…
July 23, 2013 The Attack on Common Core I’m starting this post by declaring that I’m no educator and have never pretended to be. I have absolutely zero training in K-12 education….
July 16, 2013 The Unintended Consequences of School Gun Laws I recently ran across this article from the New York Times that brings to light a problem that some school districts are facing when…
July 2, 2013 The Latest on Affirmative Action in Higher Education Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court remanded a race-based admissions case concerning the University of Texas to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, finding…
June 24, 2013 IDEA Violated by Change in Student Placement without Parental Input When I first glanced at the ruling in this case, issued by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals two weeks ago, I thought it…
June 11, 2013 NSBA Wants Clarification from OCR I wrote here several months ago about the somewhat controversial guidance released from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights in January of this…