E&W Blog

Parents are speaking up and the results are clear—they are unhappy with the performance of public schools. A new survey by Free to Learn found that parents are concerned with overall academic standards in K-12 schools and the prevalence of virtual learning. It also found that Americans believe parents should have a larger role in their child’s education. Academic Achievement Is Getting Further out... Read more »

President Biden’s so-called Build Back Better agenda is a Big Labor payout. The Biden administration takes every chance it gets to bolster the power of union bosses, even signing an executive order to create a task force to force more workers into unions. Biden’s massive spending bill includes billions of dollars in green energy projects designed to benefit Big Labor. For example, under Democrats’... Read more »

When students leave home to attend a college or university, few expect to have their freedom of expression stifled, but that is exactly what is happening on campuses across the country. Attending college is supposed to be about learning how to think critically and engage with diverse points of view. Yet too many college students are harassed or discriminated against by fellow students, faculty mem... Read more »

Democrats spend-and-tax monstrosity explicitly discriminates against faith-based child care providers. It is no wonder that a large coalition of faith-based organizations have sent a letter to the Senate HELP Committee expressing concern about the bill. The Faith Coalition rightly points out: “[T]he current child care and universal pre-kindergarten (UPK) provisions in the Build Back Better Act wil... Read more »

Democrats’ claims that religious providers can participate in H.R. 5376’s child care programs are FALSE. Repeating a lie doesn’t make it true. Child care provisions in Democrats’ so-called Build Back Better bill will push faith-based providers out of the market and severely limit parental choice. Myth: Build Back Better funds are available to faith-based child care providers with no strings attach... Read more »

Tucked into the Democrats’ socialist spending bill is a nasty scheme intended to bleed American job creators dry. The Education and Labor Committee provisions in this bill alone would add a whopping $454.1 billion to the deficit. How do Democrats propose to pay for their outrageous expansion of the federal bureaucracy? Through massive fines leveled on job creators. These unprecedented increases in... Read more »

The Biden administration is proposing to end a popular program that connects workers with employers in the midst of a workforce crisis. Industry-Recognized Apprenticeship Programs (IRAPs) were created to expand apprenticeship opportunities by encouraging employer-led innovation. IRAPs give apprenticeship programs flexibility to address our nation’s growing skills gap better. Unfortunately, the Bid... Read more »

President Biden knew that concerned parents would not let their voices be silenced at school boards across the country so he decided that the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) would do his dirty work for him. After the National School Boards Association (NSBA) collaborated with Biden Administration officials in sending an inflammatory letter to Attorney General ... Read more »

President Biden knew that he didn’t have the authority to issue a national vaccine mandate, yet he instructed the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to move forward with this diktat as a “work around.” This case and others are now consolidated in the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals and we hope that the judges and the American people will take the great arguments from the Fift... Read more »

Every aspect of workers’, students’, and job creators’ lives are threatened by the Democrats’ hyper-partisan, reckless spending spree. Parading as an investment, this bill will bankrupt future generations to pay for unnecessary, duplicative, and ineffective proposals that prop up liberal special interests on the backs of hard-working taxpayers. Here is what you need to know about the egregious edu... Read more »