What do you do if your school district advocates against you? Well, that’s what taxpayers in Belton ISD (BISD) are trying to figure out. On Tuesday, BISD’s communications team sent out an email blast deriding parental empowerment legislation being considered at the Legislature right now. In the statement, which is now prominently featured on the...
Alamo Heights ISD, a small affluent district northeast of downtown San Antonio, appears to be firmly against giving poor kids trapped in failing schools a way out. In a newly published letter, the school board makes a number of searing charges against Education Savings Accounts—a tool that allows parents to pay for tuition at any...
As the Texas Legislature meets in special session to debate whether or not to empower parents with school choice, the battle lines are being clearly drawn. Those in favor of expanding school choice point advance their case on the basis of both general principles and documented results. At the level of principle, they affirm that...
As most everyone can attest to, education reform is a hot button issue right now. Especially when it comes to parental empowerment. For various and sundry reasons, the effort to give parents the tools they need to pull their kids from failing schools has garnered the wrath of many modern-day progressives who’ve mobilized to protect...
Any effort to address this crisis must include securing the border. Last year in Carrollton, Texas, a few doses of fentanyl supplied by an 18-year-old distributor resulted in 14 overdoses among juveniles — and four deaths. But fentanyl is an Everytown problem, and it’s only going to get worse until the southern U.S. border is secure. More than five Texans...
Israel is pleading with more than one million Palestinian civilians to flee Gaza City. The vile terrorists in control of that doomed metropolis are telling innocent people to stay put. Hamas has used the Palestinian people as pawns for decades. It’s no surprise they’re now using them as human shields. On Thursday, the Israeli Defense Forces, massing 360,000...
Hamas may be trying to goad Israel into a costly and very bloody urban conflict in Gaza. As a U.S. Army intelligence officer, I was trained to brief the commander on the most likely course of action and the most dangerous course of action. How might that disciplined way of thinking be applied to the conflict...
Across the country we have seen states dropping policies that have failed to address the root causes of homelessness. For instance, San Fransisco has begun to hold people seeking services accountable by requiring drug tests and Philadelphia has banned “safe” injection sites. Even cities in Texas are beginning to question their current approaches and are starting...
These are the words of Veronica Kaprosy, who lost her daughter to fentanyl poisoning in 2022. Danica was just 17. “Kids, instead of learning from their mistakes or experiences and moving on with life, they’re dying,” Veronica said. “My soul died. I am dead, dead on the inside.” Danica suffered from medical conditions which brought...
On Wednesday, a group of far-left pastors published a column in the Dallas Morning News criticizing the budding parental empowerment movement and calling on the Legislature to heap a great deal more on Texas’ failing public school system. The central premise of the article, which was difficult to take seriously, is that we, as a...
The Plainview Independent School District wants to move on from the incident that roiled the community and its school board meetings last spring; but Isabella, age 6, can’t. She’s the victim of an unthinkable sexual assault—by another 6-year-old—that took place in an elementary school classroom, with the teacher nearby. It was filmed on a school...
In 2019, a mother faced a heart-wrenching dilemma. According to the letter she held in her hand, she had to find another hospital willing to treat her infant daughter, Tinslee Lewis, within 10 days—or Tinslee was going to die. This dilemma arose because the intensity of Tinslee’s treatment and unfavorable prognosis from Cook Children’s Medical...