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Maggie Little

Maggie Little is a Heartlander News writer based in Washington, D.C. Her reporting has also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Sun, the Federalist, RealClearPolitics and The Daily…

Government
2025 brings flurry of assisted suicide bills in more than a dozen states

States across the country are charging ahead with efforts to legalize physician-assisted suicide despite longstanding ethical and moral concerns about the practice. Already this year, bills have been… Read More

February 20, 2025
Courts
Upcoming Supreme Court case over religious charter school marks next milestone in string of religious freedom, education disputes

The legality of the country’s first tax-funded religious charter school will soon be weighed by the Supreme Court, in a case expected to have ripple effects on school choice… Read More

February 19, 2025
Education
‘Schools are not God-free zones’: Texas lawmakers consider optional prayer periods, Ten Commandment displays

(The Heartlander) — Texas lawmakers are weighing two new bills that would allow prayer periods in public schools and require displays of the Ten Commandments, as a growing number… Read More

February 17, 2025
Government
Trump’s ed secretary nominee, dubbed ‘change agent,’ promises to tackle federal bureaucracy during hearing

President Donald Trump’s nominee for education secretary, Linda McMahon, promised she is ready to take on a “system in decline” and make American education “the best in the world.”… Read More

February 13, 2025
Government
School choice optimism grows as Republicans back Trump’s pick for ed secretary ahead of confirmation hearing

Expand school choice, send education back to the states, and eventually, put herself out of a job. Those are the hopes Republicans have for President Donald Trump’s nominee… Read More

February 12, 2025