(This post was written by guest blogger Julia Martin, legislative director of the Brustein & Manasevit law firm.) The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on the constitutionality of the 2009 health care law will have wide-ranging effects on health care policy…
Columnist George Will Sunday highlighted an oft-overlooked challenge to the “quid pro quo” theory behind state grants-in-aid. This challenge is an incidental part of the suit against the Obama administration’s health care law that will be argued before the Supreme Court in late…
Will the next ESEA reauthorization contain a mandate to teach “intelligent design,” the creationist alternative to the theory of evolution? In a discussion of whether “ID” should be included in the public school curriculum, Jay Mathews, a Washington Post education…
Responding to the Supreme Court’s Nov. 14 decision to consider a constitutional challenge to the new health care law, the media have focused on the law’s controversial requirement that everyone buy health insurance (the so-called “individual mandate”). But they have…
Accusation of test cheating in Atlanta and the official investigatory report issued by Georgia’s Governor Nathan Deal’s office cite “a culture of fear” in the district as a major factor. I have no doubt that Atlanta teachers were afraid. I…
In another of many “Dear Colleague” letters recently issued by the U.S. Department of Education’s civil rights arm, Russlyn Ali, assistant secretary for civil rights, made clear last Friday that districts must enroll students as quickly as possible, regardless of…
In a decision that could buoy the hopes of school choice supporters, an ideologically divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled yesterday that taxpayers cannot challenge government programs that use tax breaks to fund religious activities. The 5-4 decision let stand an…
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