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Frontier Institute partnered with 50CAN and Edge Research on a new survey about the state of education opportunity in Montana. This survey provides a unique window into what parents understand to be the strengths and weaknesses of Montana’s education system, and how those views compare to parents across our region and across the country. Here...
"Limiting governments' budget growth, or even reducing budgets as many families have done when faced with rising costs, will provide more opportunities for tax relief."
"Most taxpayers agree that paying for young citizens’ education constitutes a common good worthy of public funding. Where we tend to disagree as a society is when we ask: who should provide the publicly funded education?"
"In his “spare” time, he spoke out against slavery and in favor of fiscal responsibility, free trade and individual liberty. Most people never accomplish a tenth of what Gallatin did in his 88 years."
Key Takeaways Montana education is mediocre and has been declining since at least 2011 on The Nation’s Report Card and other important achievement measures. Decades of focus on improving public school districts has not stopped this decline nor yielded results for Montana’s rising generation even with steady funding increases. The existing education establishment has not,...
Key Points Crypto, and blockchain technology more broadly, are rapidly disrupting major global industry sectors and leaders are recognizing the critical need for America to lead in Crypto innovation. Crypto industry adoption, growth, and investment in Montana will provide key benefits to the state economy and enable Montanans to achieve more independence and freedom from...
"The Court should display fairness and stability and respect the constitutional prerogatives of the other branches of state government."
"We should want “Montanan” to mean anyone, longtime residents and newcomers alike, who embrace the frontier spirit. We should want “Montanan” to mean success and wealth and prosperity and vitality."
New online resource center helps families and education providers navigate Montana’s rapidly changing education ecosystem.
Key Points The signs of Montana education’s poor performance are both widespread and alarming. In our research, it is not evident that district school boards are raising alarms about declining performance or asserting local control. At least six major obstacles prevent school boards from providing effective oversight. In the absence of local control, state associations...
Statements from Frontier Institute and Co-Signers
"Our chronically ambiguous federal and state environmental permitting laws have enabled fringe anti-forest management groups to weaponize the courts and shut down critical projects, even projects that are good for our forests and our environment."
"Montanans should be grateful, though ever vigilant, that the Shippy story is not likely to be relived here in the Treasure State."