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Arizona gave families public money for private schools. Then private schools raised tuition

The Hechinger Report

“The average amount of tuition is going to be more than the actual voucher, not to mention transportation and uniform costs,” said Nik Nartowicz, state policy counsel for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a legal advocacy group. That concerns Joshua Cowen, a professor of education policy at Michigan State University.

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Head Start is turning 60. The federal child care program may not make it to 61 

The Hechinger Report

Project 2025, the conservative policy handbook organized by the Heritage Foundation, which the Trump administration has been following closely, calls for eliminating Head Start altogether. Head Start is in every community in America, said Cara Sklar, director of early & elementary education policy at the D.C.-based

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