Report Says States Omitting Minority Test Scores

An analysis by the Associated Press says nearly 2 million students–mostly minorities–aren’t being counted in test scores under No Child Left Behind, creating a false picture of academic progress. The law requires that all public school students must...

On The Closing of Our School

The primary topic of discussion at the Courthouse Grill the past few days has been the announcement that the public school here in Carrollton will close this May. The focus of discussion has been on placing blame. Few, if any, have presented a plan for a cure....

A Baptist Parochial School System?

Not many decisions coming out of the Southern Baptist Convention these days occasion much shock anymore, but what looks like a proposal for a Southern Baptist parochial school system to replace public education causes my old Baptist eyebrows to arch way up. When I was...