The Heartland Institute

The Ohio Senate almost unanimously passed a revised bill overhauling the state’s school rating system, requiring nearly all third graders to read proficiently to move forward, and other education reforms. As SB 316 moves through the House, Education Committee members have questioned both the bill’s timing so close to the coming ...

Families and businesses looking to make Texas schools more efficient have plugged into an ongoing lawsuit by more than 500 school districts suing the state for a more adequate and equitable distribution of education dollars. Texas’s Constitution requires the legislature to provide an “efficient system of public free schools,” but ...

Ohioans by a 61 percent majority rejected a statewide ballot measure written to help state agencies balance their budgets and avoid excessive tax increases by giving them more flexible bargaining rights on worker pay and benefits. On the same ballot, 78 percent of voters rejected county and local tax levies meant to ease budget ...