Lindsey Burke is the director of the Center for Education Policy and the Mark A. Kolokotrones Fellow in Education at The Heritage Foundation. Read her research.
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For 15 years, the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program has been a District of Columbia institution. Yet the program, which provides scholarships to children from low-income… Read More
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Lawmakers intended with the 2017 tax cuts not only to promote economic growth and job creation and to allow families to keep more of their… Read More
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Elizabeth Warren wants free college for every American. But what the Massachusetts senator doesn’t seem to realize is just how much more costly college would… Read More
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Since 1965, federal taxpayers have poured an estimated $2 trillion into education programs associated with President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty. But despite this staggering… Read More
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., unveiled Tuesday a proposal to subsidize universal early education and child care through federal subsidies. According to The Huffington Post, “no… Read More
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Friday that the state legislature intends to establish Equal Opportunity Scholarships designed to end the current waiting list on the… Read More
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Americans need more education choice, but just as importantly, we need to preserve the invaluable system of federalism that has been at the cornerstone of… Read More
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It’s amazing how far school choice has come since the first National School Choice Week was held in 2011. That year, 18 states and Washington,… Read More
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Public school teachers in Los Angeles are on strike, affecting half a million children attending some 900 public schools in the district. Although students in… Read More
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What is the measure of a good school? And who is best positioned to decide what works? For decades, policymakers and education officials have attempted… Read More
