Presidential campaigns are a free-for-all when it comes to platitudes, promises, and pronouncements. Candidates and their supporters – in some cases, the White House – say what they need to say to garner votes, seemingly without considering the rigor or the implication of their arguments. Presidential hopefuls tend to focus on the state of the […]
Last week, former governor of Florida Jeb Bush released his plan for reforming education. The plan, called “Restoring the Right to Rise Through a Quality Education,” rightly assesses that K-12 education is failing students and “higher education has become too expensive for many Americans to afford.” Take K-12 education. During the last 40 years, the […]
A few days ago, we got the news that for the first time ever, government spending on retirement benefits won’t be the biggest ticket item in the federal budget. According to a new Congressional Budget Office report, in 2015 spending on Social Security was displaced from its first-place position by spending on health care programs, […]
On Monday former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush unveiled his plan for reforming America’s education system. There is a lot to like in his proposal, which is good, because he has much to atone for given his past support of Common Core. His proposal to create education savings accounts by consolidating the various and disjointed federal […]
This week, Republican presidential candidate and former Florida governor Jeb Bush released his plan to reform higher-education finance. It is a welcome and serious departure from the “free college” proposals of President Obama and Bernie Sanders. The plan has received praise by analysts ranging from those at the Brookings Institution to those at National Review. […]