- Judge greenlights lawsuit claiming right to literacy under California constitution [Stephen Sawchuk, Education Week] Whatever its surface appeal, legal right to literacy (or access to same) not in fact a good idea [Scott Greenfield on Michigan suit]
- “Teachers’ unions plan to become ‘more political, not less political'” [Frederick Hess and Grant Addison] “The Long-Run Effects of Teacher Strikes: Evidence from Argentina” [David Jaume and Alexander Willén, Cato Research Brief] Worsening human capital outcomes: “The Long-run Effects of Teacher Collective Bargaining” [Michael Lovenheim and Alexander Willén, NBER via Tyler Cowen]
- D.C.’s credentialism will hurt families: “Childcare Regulation and Quality” [Ryan Bourne, Cato, earlier here, here, here, and here]
- “The Department of Education’s Obama-Era Initiative on Racial Disparities in School Discipline: Wrong for Students and Teachers, Wrong on the Law” [Gail Heriot, parts one, two, three]
- “Mom Brings Coughing 10-Month-Old to the Hospital. Days Later, Cops Take the Baby.” [Lenore Skenazy, Minnesota]
- “The New Head of the Office for Civil Rights Charts a Very Different Course” [George Leef, Martin Center profile of Kenneth Marcus]
Filed under: Child Protective Services, labor unions, school discipline, schools
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Re: Coughing baby. The sanctimony of the MN DCFS head was illuminating. Putting aside the affirmative harm that a false positive does to a child and the parents, her attitude shows an attitude that an amorphous goal of “child welfare” trumps all. Well, not so in a free society. Like it or not, parents have rights. It would be refreshing indeed if we saw journalists asking tough questions of these ignorant and officious government officials.
Ultimately, the government has the guns, and it is often willing to use them (or the threat of them) to grab kids, set up stings based on the Logan Act or what have you.
Re: right to literacy.
Ultimately, this would be grounds for an interesting suit not only against the local educational apparatus, but against the teacher-union rules protecting incompetents.
Which is ironic given your next post about the teacher’s unions plan to become more political.