Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Staff Bloat at Mr. Jefferson’s University. Jay and James Paul also continue to highlight the growth of the “diversity industrial complex,” this time at the University of Virginia. As they found, UVA has 94 staff with formal responsibility for promoting DEI – second only to the University of Michigan. As Jay and James write in the
Free-Lance Star:
“State legislators, boards of trustees, tuition-paying parents, and other stakeholders should demand accountability for these symbolic hiring sprees. They should insist that universities produce evidence of the effectiveness of maintaining an army of DEI staff or cut those headcounts to lower university costs.”
Peace of mind. Writing for reimaginED this week, Research Fellow Jonathan Butcher profiled Space of Mind, a school that its founder says is "like a school, but better."
“Everything is collaborative and creative, and very much personalized to the students,” said Ali Kaufman, who created the unique K-12 learning institution in Florida. Jonathan explains that Space of Mind attracts homeschool students, private school students, former public school students, even students from learning pods.
Read on to learn more about what sets Space of Mind apart.
Education savings accounts help children succeed in school and in life in North Carolina. The John Locke Foundation featured Jonathan's new paper on education savings accounts in North Carolina in a webinar this week. Notably, 64 percent of account holders in North Carolina used their account for more than one education product or service--significantly more than the share of account holders in Arizona and Florida who used accounts for more than one learning option in the first years of those account systems.
Jonathan spoke alongside Liz Bradford, the mother of Libby, a student using an account who Jonathan featured in one of his chapters in the Heritage Foundation volume the
Not-So-Great Society. You can watch the webinar
here and get a copy of Jonathan's report
here.