The Heartland Institute

This school year Florida’s seventh graders will have to take a new standardized civics test. In 2014-2015, students must pass it to move up to high school. After four years of tinkering with the idea in response to extremely low civics knowledge among Florida’s students and general public, the Florida House and Senate unanimously ...

Texas’s spring 2012 primary ballot will include a proposition asking Republican voters if the state should fund K-12 education by attaching money directly to each student, rather than school districts or agencies. The State Republican Executive Committee votes in the December before each spring primary on propositions to include ...