Informing Readers on Education Policy

The Center Square newswire delivers impactful education reporting on key issues affecting students, parents, and taxpayers. Focusing on educational freedom, fiscal responsibility, and the broadening concerns around parental notifications and rights, The Center Square content is shared by political leaders and industry advocates, shifting discourse and leading to meaningful change.

A taxpayer-focused approach differentiates our editorial tonality, but the key to success is wide distribution. Distribution through the wire reaches a majority of American adults - 53% -  each day in the local and national news sources they already consume.

School Choice Expansion

Comprehensive coverage of school choice initiatives in the states provided taxpayers with critical information, detailing a nationwide perspective on educational freedom initiatives. Following policy developments across statehouses, The Center Square delivered breaking coverage in Idaho, Wyoming, and most recently reported on Texas’s passage of the state’s first school choice bill.

As more states embrace choice programs, The Center Square also documents states that limit parental authority in education, highlighting the communities most impacted.

Accountability in Higher Education

Tackling controversial issues such as free speech, DEI, and antisemitism, as well as outlining pressing challenges, from balancing new IA technologies to shifting funding, The Center Square placed a level of scrutiny not often applied to institutions of higher education, delivering impact.

The Center Square earned privileged access to embargoed research on AI challenges, publishing a series that earned hundreds of republications by outlets nationwide; while another series tracked university responses to Trump’s DEI executive order, actively seeking on-the-record comments from school officials on their intent to comply – or not - with these orders.

This coverage held Stanford, Ohio State, University of Virginia, and Vanderbilt - among others - to account, prompting the removal of specific DEI language or shuttering DEI-related offices. The series also details the pushback these schools face and the financial liability of noncompliance.

Throughout this reporting, The Center Square maintains a taxpayer-focused perspective, elevating issues often overlooked by mainstream media and demonstrating measurable impact.

Breaking down taxpayer costs, The Center Square outlined the estimated $98.5 million administrative costs of Biden’s Title IX changes in the first year of implementation. After the Federal Courts struck down the Title IX rewrite, The Center Square published a comprehensive analysis hours before other education outlets, providing more substantive content for readers.

Detailing President Trump’s executive order cutting the Department of Education, which was widely picked up by outlets nationally, coverage also outlined where schools put unions before students, such as controversial provisions in Bay City, Michigan’s contract allowing teachers to show up intoxicated four times before termination or requirements in California that high school juniors and seniors in public schools be taught about workplace rights, and other pro-union lessons.

Coverage also detailed the need for education standards, outlining the Wisconsin legislature resetting the state’s K-12 school report card standards to match the National Assessment of Education Progress, after the Department of Public Instruction Superintendent quietly changed those standards.

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