Archbishop’s call helps sink oversight changes to Missouri private school voucher program

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://missouriindependent.com/2026/05/15/archbishops-call-helps-sink-oversight-changes-to-missouri-private-school-voucher-program/

The Guardian | Privately educated CEOs seen as ‘safer bet’ by investors, study finds by Joanna Partridge

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A University of Surrey study shows that investors treat chief executives who attended private schools as a “safer bet,” resulting in roughly 5 % lower stock‑market volatility for those firms, even though the privately‑educated CEOs do not outperform, take fewer risks, make better decisions, or handle crises more effectively than their state‑educated peers. The perceived lower risk diminishes over time as more information about a leader’s performance becomes available and disappears in companies subject to greater analyst scrutiny or higher institutional ownership, indicating that market participants often confuse elite background with competence despite no measurable impact on corporate outcomes.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/may/14/privately-educated-ceos-safer-bet-investors-class-bias-study

#ChristosMavrovitis #UniversityofSurrey #SuttonTrust #FTSE100 #business #classissues #corporategovernance #education #financialsector #ftse #inequality #investing #privateschools #schools #secondaryschools #socialmobility #society #sociology #stockmarkets

This is 3 months old but I missed it.
“Teachers employed by a large group of Queensland Christian schools were told to teach creationism in science classes, including that vegetarian baby dinosaurs would have been taken aboard Noah’s Ark.”

Hilarious but also terrifying.

“The conference featured a presentation by the Answers in Genesis’ director of research, Australian geologist Andrew Snelling.

“Those present say Snelling told them the radiometric dating techniques used by mainstream scientists to show fossils and rocks are millions of years old were flawed. He said the Himalayas were formed by the “great flood”, and that juvenile vegetarian dinosaurs had been on the ark.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/25/science-teachers-from-queensland-open-brethren-schools-told-to-teach-students-about-vegetarian-dinosaurs-on-noahs-ark

#auspol #creationism #noahsArk #Dinosaurs #MiniatureAnimals #Christians #PrivateSchools #Queensland #Snelling #OpenBrethren

Public Schools vs. Private Schools: Funding Explained! #shorts

Is school choice only for low-income or disabled students? Marketing targets smaller towns, but what about one-school towns? Funding public schools better should be the priority over subsidizing private education. #SchoolChoice #PublicEducation #EducationFunding #PrivateSchools #Texas from Austin Real Estate & Lifestyle

https://jennifermartinyt.wordpress.com/2026/03/27/public-schools-vs-private-schools-funding-explained-shorts/

$90M for private schools is terrible public policy, but it makes political sense for the UCP

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://albertapolitics.ca/2026/03/90m-for-private-schools-is-terrible-public-policy-but-it-makes-political-sense-for-the-ucp/