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A Parent’s Pledge

by Tammy Drennan Last updated April 9, 2007   We, your parents, pledge to you, our precious child and gift from God, the following: Physical Needs So you’ll never feel want or neglect, we’ll provide you with good food, a… Continue Reading…

Playing At Markets: Vouchers As A Socialist Trap

by Douglas Dewey Last updated April 18, 2007 Editor’s Note: Douglas Dewey, President of The National Scholarship Center in Washington, DC, delivered these remarks as part of a voucher debate at SepCon’95. They have been edited slightly for length. Originally… Continue Reading…

How to Separate School and State:  A Primer

By Douglas Dewey Last updated June 25, 2007   A forceful case for eliminating the role of government in education has been stated in the previous article. This essay will provide an introductory answer to the “how” question. Efforts to… Continue Reading…

Losing Supreme Control

By Cathy Cuthbert July 6, 2002 LewRockwell.com Last week, the Judicial Oracles spoke and education was the theme. Headlines shouted the news that vouchers are constitutional and that saying the word “God” in public school is not, while the intelligentsia, not… Continue Reading…

Not Yours to Give

from THE LIFE OF COLONEL DAVID CROCKETT Compiled by Edward S. Ellis (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, 1884)   One day in the House of Representatives, a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a… Continue Reading…

The Voucher Trap

by Gordon Francis Corbett After the Supreme Court ruled that school vouchers are Constitutional, some authorities said that vouchers are just as Constitutional as the G.I. Bill was. They are right, but not in the way they intend. Some admirers… Continue Reading…

What About the Poor?

by Chris Cardiff In various forms, the question “what do we do about the poor?” outstrips all others as the most frequently asked question about separating school and state. The implicit assumption, only natural after 60 years of the welfare… Continue Reading…

Cyberschools – the rest of the story

Cyberschools – the rest of the story by Robin Bernhoft, MD Member, Advisory Board, St Thomas More Home Educators, Seattle, WA The Catholic Church teaches that parents bear primary responsibility for their children’s education. This makes the government schools’ “Parents… Continue Reading…

Why Muslims Need Separation of School and State

by Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, Ph.D. Minaret Of Freedom Institute Excerpted from Dr. Ahmad’s talk to the 1996 Separation of School and State Convention. Originally published in The Education Liberator, Vol. 3, No. 5, June 1997   The essential teaching of Islam… Continue Reading…