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March 17, 2026
Arizona Is at It Again: The Next Step Advancing Education Freedom
Washington, D.C.—Today, Erika Donalds, Chair of Education Opportunity at the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), issued the following statement about Arizona’s potential to expand more pathways for families to support educational options offered in House Bill 4037, which would establish a refundable tax credit for filers that do not have students within the public school system, and that do not have an Empowerment Scholarship Account:
Statement
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March 16, 2026
AFPI Statement on Governor Beshear’s Veto of Education Freedom in Kentucky
Washington, D.C.—Today, Erika Donalds, Chair of Education Opportunity at the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), issued the following statement following the veto by Governor Andy Beshear of Kentucky’s legislation (House Bill 1) that would permit participation in the new federal tax credit scholarship program created in the Working Families Tax Cut Act.
Commentary
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March 2, 2026
How States Can Restore School Safety & Order
The Department of Education (ED) recently announced another inter-agency agreement to send responsibility for federal school safety programs to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). These programs will undoubtedly be better managed by HHS than by ED, which has a tragic track record of leveraging its policy authority to make schools less safe. However, shifting management of federal programming alone will have a limited effect on conditions inside classrooms.
State Model Policy
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March 2, 2026
Restoring Teacher Authority and Classroom Order ACT
The purpose of this act is to promote safe and orderly classrooms where teacher authority is respected by students and school administrators, to ensure that parents have access to reliable insight into school safety, and to biannual review of school discipline policies. This act requires that the State Education Agency administer an annual survey to teachers to ascertain safety conditions within public schools. This act also requires Local Education Agencies to revisit their school discipline codes of conduct to increase teacher discretion in the school discipline system.
Commentary
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February 23, 2026
America’s Civics Crisis—and Opportunity
School children across America had off last Monday for a holiday known as Presidents Day, but which is still officially called Washington’s Birthday. Without George Washington, the American Revolution may not have happened and certainly would not have succeeded.
Experts on K-12 Education Freedom
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How Mississippi Beat the Odds: Gov. Tate Reeves on Literacy Reform and the School Choice Revolution
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Secretary McMahon, AFPI, TPUSA, & Partners Launch New Civics Coalition
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America First Roundtable: Breaking the Education Cartel
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AFPI Files Title IX Lawsuit to Protect Oregon Girls’ Rights
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America First Unfiltered: Criminals Deported, AI in Classrooms, & DEI Dismantled
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Detransition Awareness Day
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AFPI Celebrates National School Choice Week
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AFPI Welcomes Erika Donalds as Chair of the Center for Education Opportunity and Chair of the AFPI-Florida State Chapter
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Riley Gaines Joins America First’s Athletes Coalition as Vice Chair
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National School Choice Week 2024: The Education Freedom Revolution
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Combating Fentanyl in Schools
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