by Benny Gooden

Horace Mann designed his common school to be the great equalizer, to include students from every religion, social class, race and background. We must promote Mann's values in the 21st century. We need the freedom to practice religion without government mandates or prohibitions. No, God has not been expelled from school. But neither has the school defined and regulated the presence of a supreme being. 

Federal Education Policies that Undermine Democracy and Local Control  by William Mathis and Kenneth Howe"

Local control" has been a bedrock principle of public schooling in America since its earliest days, but a new report concludes the concept "has all but disappeared" in discussions of education policy. 

Left Out of No Child Left Behind  by Alexander Russo
If you wonder why members of Congress seem determined to support unpopular and ineffective programs like No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, read this.  

At the start of a recent home football game, the team charged onto the field through a banner painted with the words of Hebrews 12:1. A day earlier, a state judge extended a temporary restraining order stopping the district from enforcing the ban.

Anxiety High Over Charters  By Andrew Ujifusa
Still, she conceded that support from prominent business leaders in the state, such as Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen and parents of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, were being used effectively by charter opponents to paint the proposal as the brainchild of elites.