Across America there are successful schools, and there are failing schools. There are successful private schools, district schools, charter schools; successful schools in poor rural and urban landscapes, and successful schools in wealthy suburb and urban landscapes. Conversely, there are failing private, district and charter schools in varying landscapes across the country (albeit disproportionately more so in areas with lower socioeconomic levels and neighborhoods of color).
Read MoreLast month politicians in the Minnesota legislature introduced a bill titled the Academic Balance Bill. The stated objective of the bill is “Public education courses are not for the purpose of political, ideological, religious, or antireligious indoctrination”
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