Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers appears on WBAL radio to talk about schools needing to open in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The risk to students and teachers is low, Evers says and students' learning is suffering. Schools, parents, and teachers were not prepared for online learning forced by the pandemic.

Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers appears on the National Review Radio Free California Podcast with host Will Swaim. Evers talks about the Open Letter to Suspend California AB-5 as well as his time in the George W. Bush administration as he helped get schools open in Iraq after the first Gulf War in 1991.

Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers appears on WESR radio to talk about re-opening schools after being closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Teachers are at low risk for being infected as are children under 16-years-old, Evers says. The lockdown of the nation's schools has been an egregious error.

Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers appears on KCBS radio to talk about University of California Regents voting to suspend ACT and SAT testing requirements for incoming students. Evers says the decision shows a bias against hard-working high school students and especially Asian-American students. He says the UC administration has been moving in this direction for some time. He says the UC faculty actually voted to keep the SAT and ACT tests.

War, economic depressions, and other emergencies are seen as opportunities by big-government advocates and special interests to ratchet up the size and scope of government, as the Independent Institute’s (retired) Senior Fellow Robert Higgs demonstrated in his seminal book, "Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government." Sadly, the coronavirus outbreak is no different.

Independent Institute Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers says schools should bring back students as soon as possible and even put kids in summer school. Parents are becoming more comfortable with homeschooling, but research shows that all-distance learning to be difficult. Equipment issues and low requirements for teachers can make online learning problematic for families.

In the midst of the coronavirus crisis, Graham H. Walker (Executive Director) and Christopher J. Coyne (Senior Fellow) at the Independent Institute examine the folly and ominous impact of the consequent government-mandated shutdowns, multi-trillion dollar "stimulus" and welfare spending, attacks of constitutional and civil liberties, massive unemployment and business failures and skyrocketing federal debt. They then discuss the changes needed to reverse this dangerous development in order to restore liberty and human well-being.

An influential group of 151 economists and political scientists, are calling for the immediate suspension of California’s AB-5, a law that was passed in 2019 to regulate the use of independent contractors in a variety of activities. The "Open Letter to Suspend California AB-5" that is addressed to California Governor Gavin Newsom and all members of the California State Legislature, calls for the immediate suspension of the law, which prevents individuals from working part time in a variety of indispensable positions, especially during the coronavirus crisis. Each of the signatories is affiliated with one of forty colleges, universities, and think tanks in California.