Sarah Palin Advocates for School Choice
I wanted to highlight a speech given by Sarah Palin at a Christian school in Pennsylvania. In it she highlights the necessity that parents have sovereignty over their child’s education (among other...
View ArticleMichelle Obama, Child Nutrition and Parental Sovereignty
In remarks made yesterday during the signing of Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, First Lady Michelle Obama regarding deciding what children ought to eat, “We can’t just leave it up to the parents.” She...
View ArticleThomas Jefferson Argued for Local and Parental Control of Education
The call for local control of education and for parental control is not a new argument. President Thomas Jefferson cautioned against a state, not just a federal role in education in a letter written...
View ArticleSimplify Iowa’s Homeschool Laws
A new homeschool option is being debated in the Iowa Senate today, Independent Private Instruction. The current competent private instruction law passed in Iowa in 1993 has been very complex for...
View ArticleReading, Writing and Gender Diversity
The California Legislature is still debating the “Gay Textbook” Bill, two California schools are now offering gay studies classes, and an Oakland, CA elementary school brought in a group called Gender...
View ArticleHelp For Exercising Your Parental Sovereignty
The biggest reason we want to preserve parental sovereignty is so that we as parents can exercise it. One of the primary reasons my wife and I homeschool is so we can be the chief influencers of our...
View ArticleViolating Parental Rights and Putting Children at Risk
I was alerted about a situation in South Carolina where the state educational bureaucracy have ignored parents and have put two different children’s wellbeing at risk. At the crux of the matter is...
View ArticleMcGroarty Op/Ed at Washington Times: Forcing Sex Education on the District
Emmett McGroarty, the executive director of our Preserve Innocence Initiative wrote an op/ed for The Washington Times about disturbing news out of our nation’s capital city: The sudden announcement...
View ArticleParents Really Do Know Best
We can see the impact of school choice worldwide even among the poorest of the poor… one universal theme we can see whether it is here at home or abroad is that parent know best. Unfortunately the...
View ArticleOceanside Union Free School District: Standardized Testing Trumps Parental...
Grumpy Educators highlights an exchange between a parent and school administrators at the Oceanside Union Free School District in Oceanside, NY over opting her son out of standardized testing. After...
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