Insights
Insights: analysis, research, and informed commentary from Sutherland experts. For elected officials and public policy professionals.
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New online tool outlines eight key parental rights in education
Parents have meaningful legal rights to direct, review, and customize their child’s education through options such as curriculum review, accommodations, open enrollment, homeschooling, and more.
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Three religious freedom cases to watch at the Supreme Court
The court has done an admirable job in recent years in clarifying the constitutional obligations of governments in a way that protects the First Amendment right to free exercise of religion.
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Sutherland Institute launches Utah Schools Navigator for parents
The Utah Schools Navigator is designed to offer Utah parents several complementary services in one place, so they feel equipped as they seek information about education options – public, private, microschools, and more.
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Texas app store case offers states a path to protect children online
The court decisions in this case will provide important direction to states about how to ensure parents and children can navigate technology safely and together.
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Call for Utah Fits All Scholarship stories
The Utah Fits All Scholarship is an education savings account program that allows Utah families to personalize their child’s education by using public funds for state-approved educational expenses like tuition, textbooks, curriculum, and more.
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What political hot takes miss about the Supreme Court
It deeply distorts what is actually happening. Some of the decisions of the just-concluded court session make this clear.
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Important questions answered about the federal scholarship tax credit
States must opt into the program for families to receive scholarships. Utah has already opted in. Regardless of what a state decides, individuals from any state can donate to any approved SGOs in another participating state and still receive a…
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Audit shows lawmakers leading out on Utah Fits All Scholarship policy reforms
Despite the attention some of the audit expenses have received, the real news is that many of these concerns have already been addressed and rooted out.
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Education policy needs less symbolic action, more real impact
The gritty work of education policy, which has real impacts on students, comes from states or from federal policies that expand the work that states are trying to accomplish. That’s why attempts by the current administration to reduce federal bureaucracy…
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The Fourth of July is a reminder of America’s enduring promise
Linking our official independence with the adoption of the Declaration is entirely fitting. The Declaration did much more than merely announce a political separation; it established an aspiration that shaped the new nation, and continues to shape us today.