Biden Marches With Autoworkers While Causing Their Problems

• President Joe Biden showed “solidarity” with striking United Auto Workers by joining it Tuesday on the picket line near Detroit. This strike is heavily a result of the inflationary pressures caused by Biden’s regulatory policies and out-of-control government spending.
• After a week on strike, the United Auto Workers union has now moved to expand their strike to 38 locations in 20 states. The UAW is demanding a 35% hike in pay and benefits over four years, as well as automatic cost-of-living adjustments, just like in the 1970s, along with a four-day workweek.
• The green agenda is driving the UAW to strike, because banning the internal-combustion engine is equivalent to banning auto jobs.

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School Policies Hiding Students’ Gender Identities Face Different Legal Fates

• In the United States, approximately 1,044 school districts (impacting more than 10 million students) have transgender or “gender nonconforming” policies that require school administrators and district personnel to keep a student’s transgender status hidden from parents.
• But based on the U.S. Supreme Court’s century-old recognition of parents’ fundamental, constitutional right to direct the upbringing of their children, it hasn’t taken long for those policies to elicit federal legal challenges.
• Parents in at least six states have done so, but a recent federal court decision halting such a policy doesn’t bode well for school administrators keen to keep parents in the dark about something so fundamental.
• Parents’ primary right and responsibility to direct the upbringing of their children is both longstanding in law and ancient in origin. Whether future courts will recognize this right remains to be seen, although they should.

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A Huge School-Choice Win in North Carolina

• What just transpired in North Carolina is likely to be remembered as a key turning point for the school choice movement.
• Earlier this year, the prospects for expanding school choice in North Carolina seemed dim. Governor Roy Cooper (D-NC) was certain to veto any such legislation, and the Republican-controlled legislature lacked the votes for a veto override.
• But that all changed in April when state representative Tricia Cotham switched her party registration from Democrat to Republican, giving the GOP a veto-proof majority.
• The school-choice expansion was eventually included in the state budget deal, which the legislature passed mostly along party lines last week.
• North Carolina is on track to be the ninth state to make all K–12 students eligible for school choice and the seventh to do so this year. About one in four K–12 students across America will soon be eligible for school choice.

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