Can Linda McMahon help fulfill the promise of charter schools?

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May 19, 2025

Can Linda McMahon help fulfill the promise of charter schools?

Charter schooling has long suffered from a “more-of-the-same” problem. For all the opportunities to rethink the familiar schoolhouse, few of the nation’s 8,000 charter schools have actually done so. While they tend to outperform their district counterparts due to high expectations and elbow grease, many charter schools just aren’t all that different from nearby district […]

Pope Leo is going to oversee a revival of traditional Catholicism in America

On June 7, the Catholic Diocese of Arlington, on the border of Washington, D.C., will ordain 12 men to the priesthood. That may not sound like a lot, but in a diocese with fewer than 500,000 Catholics, it is a remarkable number, especially at a time when young people have largely rejected organized religion, let […]

Republicans are right to reform Medicaid

House Republicans held the mark-up last week for their reconciliation package, which includes several significant reforms to Medicaid, the federal-state entitlement that provides health benefits to roughly one in five Americans. The package is not perfect. But it would restore some measure of fiscal sanity to the program by, among other things, reining in the […]

The Trump administration is finally bringing discipline to classrooms

Last week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the U.S. Department of Education to review and roll back federal policies that prevent teachers from disciplining disruptive students. It’s a long-overdue move. For over a decade, misguided federal guidance rooted in diversity, equity, and inclusion ideology and “disparate impact” theory has tied the hands […]

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