Texas Should Follow the Lead of Other States – and Give Rural Families School Choice

• Arizona and Texas are border states with large and growing cities, as well as vast rural areas. But the outcomes of their K-12 education systems have been opposites.
• While the Texas economy is racing full speed ahead, the state’s K-12 education has stalled and is in decline, with some of the worst cases in rural areas.
• Texas lawmakers should use Arizona—which has the country’s most robust education choice policies—as a model, very much including its rural areas.

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Meritocracy is being Replaced with DEI Compliance as the Main Criterion for Advancement in the Corporate World

• DEI management is now the second-fastest growing job on LinkedIn, as companies are increasingly pressured to increase their ESG social credit scores.
• Driving this movement is the American company B Lab. This company encourages other companies in the U.S. to become benefit corporations, focusing on ESG and DEI objectives rather than on generating returns for shareholders or valuable products or services for customers.
• The U.S. government needs to put a check on this leftist “social justice” movement before it gains as much ground as it has in Canada and the United Kingdom.

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Until Biden Offers a Plan to End the War in Ukraine, Congress Shouldn’t Approve Another Cent

• The Heritage Foundation came under fire this week for suggesting we should prioritize helping Americans suffering from natural disasters like the Maui wildfires over funding a grinding war of attrition between Ukraine and Russia.
• Heritage is adamantly opposed to the $24 billion Ukraine aid package. This support is fiscally irresponsible, lacks transparency and accountability, isn't focused on military aid, and has no plan or end-game attached to it. No more.
• This gimmick with tying Ukraine funding to FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund is an insult to all Americans who will be vulnerable to hurricanes in coming months.

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Half of Imprisoned Men Who Identify as Transgender Women Convicted of at Least One Sexual Assault

• A little more than half of the men housed in Wisconsin Department of Corrections facilities who identify as transgender women have been convicted of at least one count of sexual assault or sexual abuse.
• The revelation comes from Wisconsin Department of Corrections records obtained by The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project through an April 2022 public records request.
• Inmates convicted of sex offenses may have committed crimes including sexual exploitation of a child, sexual exploitation by a therapist, forced viewing of a sexual act, rape, sexual intercourse without consent, incest, sexual intercourse with a child, indecent behavior with a child, enticing a child, and more.
• Men belong with men and men only in prison.

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