Insights
Insights: analysis, research, and informed commentary from Sutherland experts. For elected officials and public policy professionals.
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App stores are not like bookstores: Courts need to provide clarity on laws to help parents
Many parents are anxious to have help in navigating technology and are understandably concerned about the insistent way in which their children are influenced by online pitches. They can count on their influence being respected when it comes to their…
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Want to homeschool your kids? There are resources and policies to support you
While homeschooling can be an independent endeavor, it’s also a grassroots, community endeavor with strong networks to support families. In fact, many people find resources, ideas, co-ops, and more through online community groups on various websites and social media.
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Protecting Essential Institutions: Why Religious Freedom and Parental Rights Matter
Parents are in a unique position of understanding their children, but they also have an “investment” that others do not.
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Homeschooling Awareness Month is an opportunity for policymakers to learn
New and veteran lawmakers need to know the different ways families educate at home and which policies advance traditional homeschooling versus subsidized scholarship models.
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“Here’s Where Heaven Starts”: A Father, a Song, and a Moral Inheritance
There are no easy answers. There is, instead, a choice and the song names it plainly and directly: “The cross or the machine.”
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Key developments reshaping charter school policy, and what they mean for states
It’s National Charter School Week, creating the opportunity to evaluate how charter schools are serving students.
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The Supreme Court Stands Up for Donor Privacy
The U.S. Supreme Court recently decided a case protecting the freedom of association for nonprofit organizations.
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Teaching America’s 250th shouldn’t be controversial. Good public policy can help.
The 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence is a unique and valuable opportunity for civics education.
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A “Universal” Preschool Program That Excludes Religious Schools Isn’t Universal at All
Can a state condition participation in a universal preschool program on a school’s willingness to compromise parts of its religious mission?
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Education choice in court. What do current lawsuits mean for the future?
Families are already demanding more choices, and that expectation will be very hard to quash, even amid challenges to specific education-choice structures.