Insights & Takeaways
Insights & Takeaways is Sutherland Institute’s official blog that informs the public and policymakers alike. The blog addresses important issues through the two distinct yet complementary lenses of the seasoned policy professional and the engaged citizen.
Insights: analysis, research, and informed commentary from Sutherland experts. For elected officials and public policy professionals.
Takeaways: the most important things voters need to know. For civically engaged citizens.
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InsightsProtecting Essential Institutions: Why Religious Freedom and Parental Rights Matter
Read More: Protecting Essential Institutions: Why Religious Freedom and Parental Rights MatterParents are in a unique position of understanding their children, but they also have an “investment” that others do not.
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InsightsHomeschooling Awareness Month is an opportunity for policymakers to learn
Read More: Homeschooling Awareness Month is an opportunity for policymakers to learnNew 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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Insights“Here’s Where Heaven Starts”: A Father, a Song, and a Moral Inheritance
Read More: “Here’s Where Heaven Starts”: A Father, a Song, and a Moral InheritanceThere 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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InsightsKey developments reshaping charter school policy, and what they mean for states
Read More: Key developments reshaping charter school policy, and what they mean for statesIt’s National Charter School Week, creating the opportunity to evaluate how charter schools are serving students.
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InsightsThe Supreme Court Stands Up for Donor Privacy
Read More: The Supreme Court Stands Up for Donor PrivacyThe U.S. Supreme Court recently decided a case protecting the freedom of association for nonprofit organizations.
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InsightsTeaching America’s 250th shouldn’t be controversial. Good public policy can help.
Read More: 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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InsightsA “Universal” Preschool Program That Excludes Religious Schools Isn’t Universal at All
Read More: A “Universal” Preschool Program That Excludes Religious Schools Isn’t Universal at AllCan 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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InsightsEducation choice in court. What do current lawsuits mean for the future?
Read More: 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.
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CommentaryGeographic mobility: Its promises and discontents
Read More: Geographic mobility: Its promises and discontentsThe constitutional values of faith, family and freedom engender an interconnected populace, intergenerational strength and a robust civil society. Were there a restoration of these pillars of culture, more places…
