Let’s Start at the Beginning: Vouchers, Tax Credit Scholarships and ESAs

By Trish Schreiber

06/18/2025

"Education choice represents a fundamental shift toward recognizing student diversity and parental agency while maintaining our collective commitment to ensuring every child receives a quality education."

TAGS: Education Freedom

Accountability Is In The Eye Of The Beholder

By Trish Schreiber

12/20/2024

"If parents have meaningful options other than the single, public school to which they are geographically zoned, then they can hold schools accountable."

TAGS: Education Freedom

Education Democracy vs. Education Freedom

By Trish Schreiber

09/25/2024

"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?"

TAGS: Education Freedom

Frontier Institute Amicus Brief Filed In Felchle v. Montana

By Frontier Institute

08/02/2024

Statements from Frontier Institute and Co-Signers

TAGS: Education Freedom, press release

An Idaho Story NOT Coming To Montana

By Lawrence Reed

07/23/2024

"Montanans should be grateful, though ever vigilant, that the Shippy story is not likely to be relived here in the Treasure State."

TAGS: Education Freedom, Frontier History

Pro-Teacher And Pro-School Choice

By Kendall Cotton

07/02/2024

"School Choice is pro-student, pro-family, and pro-teacher."

TAGS: Education Freedom

They Are ALL Our Children

By Trish Schreiber

06/26/2024

"Policy should improve the lives of citizens by increasing and upholding the individual’s freedom and dignity. The system should not be superior to the individual."

TAGS: Education Freedom

From Compliance to Competence: A New Paradigm for Educational Accountability

By Trish Schreiber

03/19/2024

"Simply following the rules should not absolve the system of its accountability for properly and fully educating students, and currently that is what we have: an upside-down reality of compliance to rules rather than performance outcomes for students."

TAGS: Education Freedom

Public Charter Schools Require Accountability

By Kendall Cotton

01/24/2024

"Promises made by public charter schools should be promises kept."

TAGS: Education Freedom

Redefining Public Schools

By Trish Schreiber

12/12/2023

"With the introduction of education freedom laws, the legislature has fulfilled this mandate by expanding the system to encompass tangible options for parents that would otherwise be unattainable."

TAGS: Education Freedom

Is Montana’s Open Enrollment Policy ‘Good Enough’?

By Trish Schreiber

10/17/2023

"There’s an urgent need to break free from outdated education norms and embrace a more inclusive and adaptable education system."

TAGS: Education Freedom

Standing Up To Bullies

By Kendall Cotton

10/10/2023

"The education establishment’s bullies have made clear from the get-go they will stop at nothing to block Choice Schools for students."

TAGS: Education Freedom

Education Freedom And Taxes: Two Birds, One Stone

By Trish Schreiber

09/12/2023

"So, it’s time for education freedom enthusiasts to put their money where their mouths have been."

TAGS: Education Freedom

Frontier Institute Statement On Order Partially Halting Implementation Of HB 562

By Frontier Institute

09/06/2023

STATEMENT ON ORDER PARTIALLY HALTING IMPLEMENTATION OF HB 562

TAGS: Education Freedom, press release

The Education Establishment’s Big Lie

By Kendall Cotton

08/29/2023

"As the fate of Montana’s Community Choice Schools Act remains in limbo in the courts, Montanans should know that the education establishment’s smear campaign against Choice Schools is built on a lie intended to polarize the debate with fear and disinformation."

TAGS: Education Freedom