Homeschooling and Education During COVID-19

With over 300 million students worldwide not attending school due to quarantines, coronavirus is significantly changing how we learn. While millions of families are already familiar with learning outside the school walls, we are ALL homeschoolers now. A host of resources from private organizations are available online to help parents ensure that learning continues, and the local autonomy in our education system has allowed school districts to craft their own solutions to what could be a long stretch of school closures.

Maryland’s BOOST Is Promising, but More Work Is Needed

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Private school vouchers remain controversial. Voucher supporters argue that more school choice increases the likelihood of finding a school that best accommodates children’s individual educational needs, whereas opponents suggest that vouchers redirect public school money and subsidize private school tuition for well‐​off families. In a new paper, Russell Rhine examines the impact of Maryland’s Broadening Options and Opportunities for Students Today (BOOST) voucher program.

The Libertarian Pioneers of School Choice

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School choice is a central debate in education policy today, with advocates of charter schools, vouchers, and private schools arrayed against defenders of the government‐​run public schooling model. While many states have adopted some kind of school choice program, some politicians denounce this trend as a stalking horse for segregation or a corporatist dystopia. In the new issue of Cato Policy Report, Kevin Currie‐​Knight explains how understanding the views of 20th century libertarian theorists is critical to understanding the debate over school choice in the 21st century. 

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