Finstad's letter was built on a footnote in a 2022 school board document that was never voted on. He sent it to a state agency with no authority over curriculum, and never called the school district at all.
A former Little Rock superintendent spent two years predicting exactly how Arkansas's voucher program would go. In his final column, he explains why the rising test scores in the governor's press release don't mean what she says they mean.
A legislative panel just approved a study of a $100 million state tax credit for private school and homeschool families — on top of the $379 million Arkansas is already spending on vouchers, and on top of the new federal one. Even a conservative school choice group says no.
Hidden in Trump's budget bill is the first federal private school voucher in American history — a tax credit that pays donors back 100 cents on the dollar, with no ceiling on the total. Congress's scorekeepers say $26 billion. One analysis says $51 billion a year.
Three of them say "To codify Executive Order" right in the title. The fourth is named after one. The same congressman wants to repeal the 17th Amendment to restore what he calls constitutional balance.
Prop. 318 would let anyone sue schools over bathrooms and locker rooms, and would reach private leagues like Little League. Arizona already bans trans girls from school sports. Biggs is running on it anyway — and if it passes, undoing it takes a three-fourths supermajority.
Two of North Dakota's five tribal colleges get 50% and 70% of their money from the federal government. Their presidents used the words 'death knell' and 'It'll close us.' North Dakota's senator said he expects Congress will keep funding them. Its only House member said the president's budget is a starting point.
Jim Baird has a doctorate, two Purdue degrees, a seat on the Science Committee and a co-chairmanship of the R&D Caucus. Purdue is in his district. When Washington started cancelling research grants, he called it long overdue — and in April 2026 he celebrated the shutdown of the USDA's flagship research center because Purdue picked up a piece of it.
His Eliminate DEI in Colleges Act makes a school ineligible for every federal program — including federal student loans — unless it certifies it runs no DEI program and no DEI office. He's introduced it twice. He also voted against naming a Tallahassee courthouse for Florida's first Black Supreme Court justice.