Education

Steve Balich Editors Note: When Government pays with grants and loans whatever cost the colleges deem necessary  there is no check and balance to keep tuition down. The colleges have the understanding "if we raise it, they will pay" ...

Your Children Imagine every child had the opportunity for a great education. Imagine families had the power to send their children to the best schools without worrying about the costs. Last year, Illinois took the first tepid step towards achieving it....

Limited school choices hurt Illinoisans By Dan McCaleb | Illinois News Network Shutterstock photo Imagine a life without choices. One in which there's just a single option available to you for most everything. Lunchtime? Enjoy your peanut butter and jelly sandwich, or go...

Steve Balich Conservative Activist Liberals Bash Karen Pence for Teaching at Christian School Rachel del Guidice / @LRacheldG / January 16, 2019 /  Second...

Steve Balich Conservative Activist By Bob Livingston Americans are an unhappy lot, and they're growing less happy by the year. That's according to the World Happiness Report (WHR) which is...

Obama’s School Discipline Guidance Could Be Doomed. Here’s Why That’s Great News. Jonathan Butcher  The Obama administration issued guidance that made it difficult for schools to discipline students according to need. (Photo: Kevin Lamarque /Reuters/Newscom) COMMENTARY BY Jonathan Butcher@JM_Butcher Jonathan Butcher is a senior...

What Bill Buckley Would Say to Conservatives Today Lee Edwards William F. Buckley's National Review magazine helped forge the new conservative consensus of the 20th century. (Photo: Richard Gilmore/Zuma Press/Newscom) Lee Edwards is the distinguished fellow in conservative thought at The...

We Hear You: Conservatives and Liberals, Thoughts and Prayers, God and Guns Ken McIntyre / @KenMac55 A woman mourns at a memorial event in Beijing, China, for the victims of the mass murder Nov. 7 in Thousand Oaks, California. (Photo: Li Ying/Chine...

Illinois Gov. Pritzker All In for Taxpayer-Funding of Abortion and Planned Parenthood Written by Laurie Higgins Illinois’ newly installed governor, billionaire J.B. Pritzker, looked at the mess that decades of “progressive” rule has made of Illinois and had an epiphany: OMG, the problem...

Prison Reform Should Be a Conservative Priority, Mike Lee Argues Rachel del Guidice / @LRacheldG “We've seen what happens when we take away somebody's brother or son or uncle or nephew or father and we warehouse them for decades at a time,”...