by Stanley Carlson-Thies At the April 28, 2015, US Supreme Court oral arguments about a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, when…
by Stanley Carlson-Thies On June 2, 2015, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval signed into law a comprehensive voucher-like Educational Savings Account (ESA) system for public school…
Point: Peter Conn, “The Great Accreditation Farce,” Chronicle of Higher Education Commentary, June 30, 2014.“By awarding accreditation to religious colleges, the process confers legitimacy on…
* Michael Paulson, “Colleges and Evangelicals Collide on Bias Policy,” New York Times, June 9, 2014. “In a collision between religious freedom and antidiscrimination policies,…
The Obama administration wants to use federal funds and rules to get all states to make pre-K schooling broadly available. He’s backing a bill in…
Trinity Western University in British Columbia, an evangelical liberal arts university, is creating a Christian law school. It has successfully met the government requirements to…
A cluster of recent developments has brought to the fore (again) this key question: what makes a religious college or university a “religious organization” such…
It is an interesting report from the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice: Sector Switchers: Why Catholic Schools Convert to Charters and What Happens Next. In…
On March 24, 2014, the Canadian Supreme Court heard the important case of Loyola High School, a Catholic school in Quebec. The province of Quebec…
In early February, the National Labor Relations Board requested comments on whether and how unions can seek to organize adjunct and other faculty at religious…