This past weekend, the Leadership Institute’s School Board Programs hosted its first-ever Learn Right: Education Leaders Summit in Sarasota, Florida to equip attendees to lead the conservative education movement. The event featured a huge lineup of noteworthy speakers, including Florida U.S. Senator Rick Scott, Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, Moms for Liberty co-founder Tina Descovich, and
The Nonprofit Moms for Liberty recently criticized the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) on Twitter for trying to implement more community schools, which the nonprofit said is only a power grab for the union and the federal government. On Sunday, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten published a column that featured four
So you want to start homeschooling? That’s great! Now is the time to start panicking. You’ve pulled your kids out of school, or you’re at least planning to once this school year is over. You’ve done the research, but you feel like it isn’t nearly enough. You still have a dozen books to buy. It
You’ve read the financial blogs and listened to the money-saving podcasts. You’ve learned from your own mistakes and acknowledged where you went wrong. You’ve talked to your kids about financial literacy and tried communicating your wisdom and experience, but are you getting through? Grappling with financial literacy in a world gone electronic is challenging. Financial
Parental involvement is important in education—we can all agree on that. But does it have any perceptible impact in the here-and-now? Veronica Gemma is here to tell you that it does! Veronica is a woman who had no previous experience in the realm of education before becoming a member of her local school board.
“What do Mark Zuckerberg, Abraham Lincoln, Malcolm X, Quentin Tarantino, John Glenn, Bill Gates, and Ringo Starr all have in common? They all attended very little school before dropping out. However, none of these people are unsuccessful or uneducated. There is more than one way to be an educated man, and they do not
On Friday, the majority of the U.S. House of Representatives affirmed parents’ fundamental right to direct their child’s education through the passage of the Parents Bill of Rights Act. The bill, which still has to make it through the Senate, focuses on parents having the right to: know what their children are learning, voice concerns,
Why? Anxiety and feelings of insecurity can come and go. When you are faced with feelings of inadequacy, you may start wondering how to become a better homeschool parent. How do you become successful? -The HomeScholar Did you know that during the 2021-22 school year, there were approximately 3.1 million homeschooled students in the U.S.?
As our students evolve from little kids to teens, we begin to realize how little time we have left to teach them what they need to know - and just how much there is still to teach. Before we know it, they’ll be crossing that stage, clutching their diplomas, and stepping out into the
We’ve all seen the memes that float around the internet about school versus real life because lets face it - financial education isn't exactly a class taught in school. One popular meme recently read, “I’m so glad I learned about parallelograms in school instead of how to do my taxes. It really came in
