Larry Sand

Larry Sand, a former classroom teacher, is the president of the non-profit California Teachers Empowerment Network.

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Featherbed Ed

New data for the 2022-2023 academic year paints a disturbing picture. While students are slowly trickling back into public schools post-COVID-19…

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Public Schools are Still Segregated

On May 17, 1954, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered a unanimous ruling that state-sanctioned segregation of public schools violated…

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Taxpayer U

The college horror stories are endless. A mandatory Title IX training session at Harvard instructs students that…

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Classroom Warfare

About 857,500 violent incidents and 479,500 nonviolent incidents were recorded by public schools in 2021-22, according to…

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The School Funding Fraud

Politico reports that billions of dollars in federal pandemic relief aid to schools is running dry. The money must be spent…

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School Choice Keeps Spreading

In just three years, the number of states with universal or near-universal private school choice programs has grown…

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A Fail of Two Cities

When it comes to education, Chicago, America’s “Second City,” is nowhere near second. The kids aren’t learning despite…

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Smartphones, Dumb Kids

A survey by Common Sense Census reveals that as of 2021, 43% of 8-to-12-year-olds own a smartphone, as do 88% of teens…

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DEI Resistance is Advancing

While it certainly hasn’t been done away with, the anti-quality, anti-fairness, and anti-American “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” hustle…

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Charter Schools Rise to the Challenge

Due to pandemic-related issues, declining birthrates, inferior education, radical curricula, etc., government-run schools are bleeding students. Whereas traditional public schools…

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