by Dan Mitchell | Apr 18, 2025 | Blogs, Education
I admit to being confused. Should my feel-good map of the year be the one involving the spread of school choice or the ones involving the shift to lower tax rates? For today, it’s going to be school choice. Here’s a map from Corey DeAngelis...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 17, 2025 | Blogs, Education
Arizona has been a national leader in school choice, ranking at or near the top according to both the Education Freedom Report Card and the Index of State Education Freedom. Here’s a video showing how choice is giving parents better...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 9, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Education
In the three previous columns in this series (here, here, and here), we’ve reviewed all sorts of evidence showing that dumping more tax dollars into government schools is not a recipe for better educational outcomes. Instead, our taxes mostly go to...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 31, 2025 | Blogs, Education
Florida ranks #2 in the nation according to Freedom in the 50 States and ranks #3 in the nation according to Economic Freedom of North America. Those are impressive scores, but Florida does even better when looking specifically at...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 1, 2025 | Blogs, Education, Europe
As usual (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, etc), let’s start the year by listing three things I’m hoping for and three things I worry may happen. Let’s start with the good things that hopefully will happen this year....