Take a look at this chart showing ever-higher spending and ever-lower academic outcomes. That’s terrible data for an entire city. But when you look at specific schools, the terrible numbers become horrific. Here are some grim details from a report from the Illinois Policy Institute. Douglass...
Under billionaire Pritzker, who sends his children to private schools…, Illinois this year became the first state ever to retreat from school choice (18 have created or expanded choice programs since 2023), killing, to please teachers unions, a small tax-credit scholarship program that served mo...
Under billionaire Pritzker, who sends his children to private schools…, Illinois this year became the first state ever to retreat from school choice (18 have created or expanded choice programs since 2023), killing, to please teachers unions, a small tax-credit scholarship program that served mo...
The chart is from a new report from the Committee to Unleash Prosperity. Here are some excerpts from the study, which was authored by Professor Casey Mulligan from the University of Chicago The Biden-Harris administration’s regulatory costs exceed the first-term Obama administration’s by a fact...
The chart is from a new report from the Committee to Unleash Prosperity. Here are some excerpts from the study, which was authored by Professor Casey Mulligan from the University of Chicago The Biden-Harris administration’s regulatory costs exceed the first-term Obama administration’s by a fact...
But you can see in the chart above that statism has produced long-run decline. At the very least, the sentence should have stated that excessive government has “jerked the country from weak boom to deep bust.” Let’s conclude with the observation that Milei takes office next month and ...
There’s now even more evidence to share, thanks to new academic research by Gabriel Chodorow-Reich from Harvard, Matthew Smith from the Treasury Department, Owen Zidar from Princeton, and Eric Zwick from the University of Chicago. Here’s the most important finding. The authors have a jargon...
The Empowerment Scholarship Account program — the most expansive school-choice program in America — is a pure choice-based system that provides $6,500 per student to any family that prefers an alternative to public schools. …When he entered office, he announced that he wanted the ...
, Illinois this year became the first state ever to retreat from school choice (18 have created or expanded choice programs since 2023), killing, to please teachers unions, a small tax-credit scholarship program that served mostly poor and minority pupils. …although Illinois spends almost $24,...
, Illinois this year became the first state ever to retreat from school choice (18 have created or expanded choice programs since 2023), killing, to please teachers unions, a small tax-credit scholarship program that served mostly poor and minority pupils. …although Illinois spends almost $24,...