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By Yaël Ossowski | 3H Magazine, translated into Turkish by Zübeyr Kavık Spanning over 420 million people and thousands of kilometers of territory, the Schengen Area, the area of complete freedom of movement within Europe’s borders, is one of the greatest successes of the modern era. Though less than 20 years old, it is one…
By Yaël Ossowski | Watchdog.org The U.S. government’s ‘girl power’ foreign policy has been signed into law, boosting support for a UN aid project to empower girls in developing countries. Just last month, President Barack Obama signed the Girls Count Act, promising government resources “to effectively address the needs of birth registries in countries where…
By Yaël Ossowski | Watchdog.org A billion-dollar welfare program to help laid-off workers displaced by foreign competition has been saved from extinction, even though it’s been judged ineffective and wasteful according to the federal government’s own commissioned studies. Flexing his bipartisan muscle, President Obama signed the bill Monday renewing the Trade Adjustment Assistance program until…
By Yaël Ossowski | Watchdog.org If your governor had a secret travel slush fund worth tens of millions of dollars used to jet set to Japan, Israel and the United Arab Emirates, wouldn’t you want to know about it? That’s the question put to Massachusetts residents this week after revelations former Gov. Deval Patrick used…
‘I Was Attacked By the Serbian Internet Mob’: The Art of Being Hated in the Modern Age
Private education, the importance of competition and the liberty movement among students, highlighting the work of European Students For Liberty. Speech given at Eldorado bookstore in Oslo, Norway. 26. May 2015
Persona Non Grata in Serbia: Uniting the Ire and Wrath of an Entire Nation via YouTube
By Yaël Ossowski / June 1, 2015 / Watchdog.org He once promised to balance Connecticut’s books through spending cuts alone. Now Gov. Dannel Malloy says he’s ready to OK a nearly $2 billion tax increase no later than June 3, when the legislative session ends. A new budget, passed by the Democratic supermajority on Monday,…
On Saturday, 23. May I gave a speech at an event organized by my friend and European Students For Liberty Chairman Stoyan Panchev in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. It was my speech on Free Immigration: Defending the Right to Live and Work Anywhere and Everywhere. Plovdiv was the 5th city and Bulgaria the 4th country I’ve given…
On Tuesday, 26. May, I will be speaking at an event of Liberalistene (The Capitalist Party of Norway) at the Eldorado Bokhandel in central Oslo, Norway. I will discuss Private education, the importance of competition and the liberty movement among students, highlighting the work of European Students For Liberty.
By Yaël Ossowski | Watchdog.org Charter schools in New Orleans have enjoyed growing popular support over the years, but at least one group is hoping to quell the praise for reforms. The Dignity in Schools Campaign, a nonprofit group against zero-tolerance behavior policies in schools, brought their protest signs to the American Federation for Children…
By Yaël Ossowski | Watchdog.org Anywhere the wind blows in politics, the money is sure to follow. As for DISH Network CEO Charles Ergen, a top political financier in the U.S. wireless broadcast game and regulation, it hasn’t just been a one-sided venture. Reported by Watchdog.org on Monday, Ergen’s hundreds of thousands of dollars of…
By Yaël Ossowski / May 11, 2015 / Watchdog.org Dish Network founder and CEO Charles Ergen’s political giving reveals support for politicians who lobbied the Federal Communications Commission to reserve spectrum space for small companies — spectrum that Ergen then won in the FCC’s controversial January auction. In a May 2014 letter to FCC chairman…
By Yaël Ossowski / April 28, 2015 / Watchdog.org At the recent Education Writers Association national seminar in Chicago, a small breakout session asked the following question: Is school choice a tool for opportunity and equity, or further segregation? Following the latest negative spin on charter schools around the country, it seems most education journalists…
Comme je l’ai toujours dit, je suis très fier de mes racines. Soit mes racines québécoises ou mes racines dans le NASCAR, le dernier qu’implique ma famille depuis vingt ans. Donc c’était un plaisir d’écouter mon père en plein discussion à RadioX la semaine passée, une entrevue il a accordé à l’émission 5 à 7….
By Yaël Ossowski / April 21, 2015 / Watchdog.org The charter school community in North Carolina is rising up against a study put together by Duke University scholars that argues charter school segregation is giving white students an advantage over black students. “I find the claims that public charter schools perpetuate segregation across our state…
By Yaël Ossowski / April 21, 2015 / Watchdog.org There’s a puzzling charge being lobbed at charter schools in North Carolina by academic researchers: they’re reintroducing segregation. That’s the racially tinged analysis provided by researchers from Duke University, who last week released a study focused on the “growing segmentation” of the charter school sector in…
By Yaël Ossowski / April 16, 2015 / Watchdog.org After the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans charter schools are giving students more hope for academic success than their peers, the latest studies reveal. A study brief released last week by Tulane University’s Cowen Institute details the rise and promise of Charter Management Organizations in…
After over a year of hard work, the 2015 European Students For Liberty Conference finally came together at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany on April 10-12. There were over 500 participants from over 40 countries, united to celebrate libertarian ideas. It was an honor to organize this along with my colleagues.
By Yaël Ossowski / April 10, 2015 / Watchdog.org More students than ever are opting for Atlanta charter schools, and they’re about to get a bigger piece of the financial pie. In the 2016 budget proposal to be voted on next week, Atlanta charter schools are expected to get a funding boost of $21 million…