Neal McCluskey
Washington Examiner
Washington, DC, United States
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Past articles by Neal:
Report on Indian boarding schools: A sad and important reminder
[This article has been published in Restoring America to highlight how the government can abuse the powerful tool of education]. → Read More
Football coach prayer case captures public schooling’s basic equality problem
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case of a high school football coach whose prayers at the end of games launched a years‐long legal battle over religion in public schools. It continues the battle between religion and public schooling we have seen since public schooling Day One, and illustrates the impossibility of truly neutral public schooling. → Read More
School Choice Is on The Move. Is It Too Late?
The key to the long‐term health of private schools – and the health of a free, diverse society – is to give families control of education dollars, and let private schools live or die based on whether families choose them. → Read More
Evidence Suggests Private Schooling No More Likely Than Public to Fuel Right-Wing Militancy
Capitol rioters were not more likely to have attended private schools. → Read More
Happy New School Year? Cato’s Center for Educational Freedom Has You Covered
Cato’s Center for Educational Freedom has been closely analyzing the transition from surprise lockdowns last year, to the muddled, volatile start of the new school year. → Read More
By the Numbers: If Public Schools Shared, The Poor Could Pod
Were public schooling dollars to follow kids, it appears that pods would be within financial reach of almost everyone, often with funds left over. → Read More
COVID-19 Leaving Most Private Schools in Financial Despair
Private schools are in trouble, and we need to do what has always been right: let families decide how their children are educated. → Read More
Should Government Officials Drop in on Homeschooling Families?
The homeschooling debate is more complicated than simply concluding that parents should be able to do whatever they want with their children. → Read More
School Choice and Two Spheres of Liberty
Freedom from government control should be the norm in a country grounded in liberty. But instead of a system in which the default is education based in diverse communities and free family decisions, the default is uniform government provision. → Read More
In California v. the NCAA, Root--Grudgingly--for the NCAA
Legislation likely to be enacted in California, the Fair Pay to Play Act, is making big noise, threatening to pit our largest state against arguably the country’s biggest sports power: the National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA. → Read More
Will 2020 Yield A Real Conversation about Educational Freedom?
Featuring Neal McCluskey and Caleb O. Brown A Supreme Court challenge implicating state-level Blaine Amendments and Democrats’ revival of school busing as an issue could force a real conversation about educational freedom. Neal McCluskey comments. → Read More
Subsidies, Not Profits, Have Crumbled the Ivory Tower
A 2017 NBC News-Wall Street Journal Poll found that 47 percent of Americans think that a college degree is not worth the cost. Attacks on and cancellations of conservative speakers have made colleges seem intolerant of dissenting views. A bribery and cheating scandal that ensnared celebrities and other wealthy people has shone a light not just on illegal ways the rich seek special access to… → Read More
The Top 5 Problems with Warren's Higher Ed Proposal
It is a simplistic solution that ignores too much complicated reality. → Read More
On Trump’s Higher Ed Executive Order
President Trump’s executive order on free speech is not the worst thing we could have gotten, but there are ample causes for concern. → Read More
Battle brews over banned books and evolution
Educational choice is key to avoiding conflict, and more importantly, to equality under the law. → Read More
An Education Proposal to Chew on this 4th of July
If government is going to establish public schools, which must be secular, the U.S. Constitution requires that it also provide school choice for religious Americans. → Read More
Trump wants to merge the Education and Labor Departments — It's a small start
So the Trump administration wants to merge the Education and Labor Departments, which would, at least officially, end the U.S. Department of Education. Should we be celebrating and preparing for an all-out blitz to get this done? After all, isn’t it what Constitution- and local-control-loving… → Read More
The different responses to Parkland and Santa Fe show we need school choice
Intellectually, I have many objections to gun control – but even my instinctive reaction whenever there is a school shooting, or any mass shooting, is that the big problem is the guns, and something needs to be done about them. And if I, a libertarian strongly predisposed against gun control, have that as my first reaction, surely all people must feel the same way. Right? → Read More
Show Me the (Education) Money!
Many states have seen decreasing per-pupil expenditures for public schools since the Great Recession. But how deep varies from state to state, and it comes on the heels of nearly a century of almost unremitting spending growth. → Read More
Public colleges aren't treading water on funding
The latest numbers on funding for public colleges and universities directly from state and local governments, and through tuition, are in, and they show direct taxpayer funding rising, but revenue through tuition and fees increasing, too. If this sounds familiar, it’s because we’ve seen it before. → Read More