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Farewell Seattle

August 3, 2020 By Nicholas Kerr

It’s with heavy hearts that my wife and I have made the unexpected decision to leave Seattle for Texas. We’ve each called this city home for 15+ years. Here we met, married, bought our first home, and have been raising two kids. While we have heavy hearts and hadn’t seriously contemplated this move until a […]

Filed Under: Random Rants Tagged With: education, school, seattle, Texas

Reopen schools for the sake of our children

June 4, 2020 By Nicholas Kerr

<This was first published in the Washington Examiner on June 3, 2020> No one should fault our leadership for closing schools in March, given the uncertainty and limited information about COVID-19 available then. Three months later, we now have ample evidence about the risks of the virus to weigh against the short- and long-term harm […]

Filed Under: Policy Rants Tagged With: Coronavirus, COVID-19, education, school, seattle

Universal preschool – a universally bad idea

April 20, 2014 By Nicholas Kerr 5 Comments

As with so many ideas for government expansion into areas of the economy, the concept of universal preschool seems appealing. However, once you consider whether government should have a role educating children below school-age and think about the policy implications of it doing so, it immediately becomes clear that this idea fails every test. As […]

Filed Under: Policy Rants Tagged With: education, Externalities, Georgia, K-12, Perry, pre-K, preschool, president obama, school, universal preschool

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I’m Nicholas, a marketing consultant and dad in Dallas, TX. I like to follow policy debates, chat about parenting and share stories. Read More…

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