The Center for Civic Education's We the People continues to cause controversy.

The recently defeated Family Education Reimbursement Act would have provided needed relief and parental choice options for the 372,000 students displaced by hurricane Katrina by allowing them to enroll in a school of their parents' choice for the 2005-06 school year.

Bill Gates should realize that only by inserting competition into the public school monopoly, will there be sufficient motivation to make his ideas on education more than a pipedream.

Spending money on public school isn’t a lot different than depositing quarters into the Crane Game at an arcade and trying to grasp one of the low quality stuffed animals available to the select few who actually win.

Vouchers, by their very nature, invite government regulation and the implementation of the public school agenda.

The “educrats” lost sight of the mission.  Rod Paige and No Child Left Behind set the public schools back on course.

Chicago Mayor Daley has announced that he will enforce the residency requirement for Chicago school teachers.

The academic agenda of the public school system is as much determined by what is politically incorrect to discuss in the schools, as it is by the basic assumptions about the academic skills necessary to survive in our society.

In an open state, individual school districts are free to choose the textbooks they want to use, but in a closed state a textbook cannot be selected unless it is on the state-approved list.