Who knows what’s best for children – their parents or government?API believes the answer is simple and foundational: their parents. One of the three tenets of the Alabama Policy Institute’s mission is to promote and defend families as the primary fou ...
API President/CEO Pens Op-Ed on Educational Freedom
Let’s demand our education system stop serving as a glorified public employment agency with little to no accountability and limited academic success. Let’s start putting our focus on what education is actually supposed to be all about educating ...
Teachers Unions Spend Big on GOP State Lawmakers – Wall Street Journal
API research and analysis were used in this John Tillman opinion piece on the negative influence of teacher unions on school choice legislation. ttps://www.wsj.com/articles/teachers-unions-spend-big-on-gop-state-lawmakers-school-choice-5e610478
API Supports PRICE Act
Birmingham, Ala. - Today (April 11th, 2023), the Alabama Policy Institute (API) announced its support for the Parental Rights in Children’s Education (PRICE) Act introduced by Senator Larry Stutts and Rep. Ernie Yarbrough, to create a universal educa ...
Start Putting Students First
School Choice is a hot button issue nationwide. Some governors have been championing this idea for years, but there has been a noticeable domino effect in the year’s spring legislative sessions. Perhaps it’s a delayed response to the crisis homeschoo ...
Top Ten Things the Alabama Legislature Should Accomplish in 2023
The Regular Session of the Alabama Legislature will resume Tuesday. Though the only statutory requirement of our state legislature is to pass balanced budgets, there will be literally hundreds of bills considered and debated as our elected leadership ...
With billions of federal education dollars unspent, why does the Alabama Department of Education continue to ask for more?
Alabama’s K-12 schools have over $2 billion in federal stimulus funding that is yet to be spent, according to a recent report from al.com. The money was appropriated to the state by Congress beginning in 2020 under the guise of a federal health emerg ...
Educational insanity: What the 2022 NAEP scores actually tell Alabamians
What if I told you Alabama's eighth-grade reading and math scores are either worse or the same than they were more than two decades ago? Would you believe me over the various celebratory slogans touting Alabama's "progress in education achievemen ...
Arizona governor signs universal school choice legislation into law
School choice for every family, regardless of income, zip code or social status, has become reality in Arizona. This week, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey (R) celebrated with parents, students and teachers at Phoenix Christian Preparatory School his sign ...
Florida shows school choice doesn’t destroy public education
"This is the day that will go down in the annals of Florida history as the day we abandoned the public schools and the day that we abandoned, more importantly, our children." -Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (March 25, 1999)In 1999, opponents p ...