The Heartland Institute

... Jeb Bush discusses the Common Core, Parent Trigger, ALEC, third grade retention, and federal... to receive portions of property taxes. Parents and teachers are loudly shouting down... keeps making foolish arguments while criticizing the Parent Trigger . A South Carolina proposal to allow education... ...

... U.S. Constitution that would affirm parental rights . The Michigan Senate passed a Parent Trigger bill . An attempt at amending the... centers on candidates' differing positions on the Parent Trigger and other school choice models. Schools desperate for cash are selling their students' attention... ...

... these new options is available to parents? While school choice programs were proliferating, parent engagement networks also became increasingly common, bolstered by nationwide attention to Parent Trigger legislation. Numerous school choice advocacy and... dollars to each child and allowing parents... ...

... five years’ time, and it could trigger further incremental breakthroughs in treatment. A... forced into a hospital against her parents’ wishes. Those votes came when the Illinois House and Senate sent Gov. Pat Quinn a package of $1.6 billion in budget-driven Medicaid cuts that its sponsors say are necessary to... ...

... of Representatives held a hearing on parent engagement in education this week. Maine... out-of-district has stalled. Some parents are complaining their children are bussed... the California case over the Adelanto Parent Trigger. The Common Core draft science standards are out and likely to provoke controversy... ...

... another. Now some reformers want a “parent trigger” in Colorado and several other states... to invest dollars in, etc.; Giving parents the right to choose among schools to find a good match with their own preferences and values; Raising the funds for our schools at a central level, then redistributing them... ...