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Stress of School District Funding During Covid-19 Made Worse by Bad Policy

Stress of School District Funding During Covid-19 Made Worse by Bad Policy

by Tyler Williamson | Jan 25, 2021 | Blog

If a business loses hundreds of customers to a competitor, are they justified in thinking they will retain the same level of profit? Of course not, that’s absurd. However, Oklahoma school district administrators appear to think so. A recent article in the Oklahoman...
Stress of School District Funding During Covid-19 Made Worse by Bad Policy

COVID Inspires Tyranny for the “Good” of Its Victims

by Spencer Cadavero | Dec 9, 2020 | Blog

The Christian philosopher, C.S. Lewis, once said, “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.” The moral...
Stress of School District Funding During Covid-19 Made Worse by Bad Policy

How Biden/Harris and Well-educated Sophisticates Are Wrong in the Age of COVID-19

by Byron Schlomach | Nov 18, 2020 | Blog

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris often declared during the campaign that “We believe in science.” And judging by the tendency of the college-educated, especially among the sophisticates living on the coasts, to agree with Harris’s positions on everything from...
America’s Legal Tradition of Allowing Risk-Taking, Even in a Pandemic

America’s Legal Tradition of Allowing Risk-Taking, Even in a Pandemic

by Mike Davis | Nov 18, 2020 | Research

America’s Legal Tradition of Allowing Risk-Taking,Even in a Pandemic Author Mike Davis Abstract This paper demonstrates how many local governments’ restrictive policies in response to COVID-19 fail to fit into the long American legal tradition of allowing individuals...
Stress of School District Funding During Covid-19 Made Worse by Bad Policy

Follow the Science: Eliminate Social Distancing and Focus Resources to Protect the Vulnerable

by Brad Galbraith | Nov 16, 2020 | Blog

As the country entered into an election year, COVID-19 reared its head and became an unusual campaign issue. Exposed to extreme politization, facts were buried in an abundance of misinformation perpetuated by the invocation of “science.” With the overly polarized...
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