Protecting and Promoting School Choice

Month: September 2020

#32: School’s Out: COVID or Unions?

Christos Makridis, Digital Fellow at MIT, joins Corey DeAngelis and Matthew Nielsen to discuss new research that indicates that school lockdowns are highly correlated to union influence and power rather than health concerns.  Find EFI online at EFInstitute.org, @EF_Institute on twitter, and Educational Freedom Institute on Facebook and other social platforms.

#31: U.S. Rep. Dan Bishop’s CHOICE Act

Congressman Dan Bishop (R-NC) joins Corey DeAngelis to talk about a bill he introduced in the US House of Representatives that would expand Opportunity Grants for children who lack options for in-person instruction.  Find EFI online at EFInstitute.org, @EF_Institute on twitter, and Educational Freedom Institute on Facebook and other social platforms. *Please pardon the weather-related …

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New York Post: It’s union power, not safety issues, that’s determining which US schools reopen this fall

By Corey DeAngelis and Christos Makridis: It’s back-to-school season, but millions of students won’t be going back to the classroom. Teachers are fighting tooth and nail to prevent reopening public schools for in-person learning — in the name of safety. Yet our just-released study suggests that these reopening decisions have more to do with influence …

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