Dear Colleagues:

Vaccine rollout has expedited school reopenings. In fact, as of April 6th, nearly 80% of teachers, school staff and childcare providers were vaccinated. As of May 17th, AEI’s Return to Learn Tracker showed that more than half of the nation’s school districts have returned to fully in person learning. Only 1% continue to learn in fully remote settings, and 46% learn in a hybrid learning environment. The largest strides to return to in-person learning occurred in Florida and Iowa where 100% of school districts have completely returned to in-person instruction.

What We’re Working on

Jonathan Butcher spoke with John Caldara, President of the Independence Institute, on the Denver PBS station about critical race theory. "Rarely is critical race theory described today as tracing back to those German Marxists...from the 1920s," Jonathan said. You can watch the show here.
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This week Lindsey Burke and other Heritage experts discussed how President Biden’s American Families Plan will hurt citizens. “This plan is really just a massive wish list of liberal policies that include $109 billion for ‘free’…community college,” she noted. You can watch the whole event here.

Yesterday, Lindsey and Thomas Spoehr, director of Heritage’s Center for National Defense, discussed how President Biden’s budget request would spend too much on education and too little on national defense. You can view their 30 minute  Policy Pulsehere.
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Warmly,

Jude Schwalbach,
Research Associate and Project Coordinator
Center for Education Policy
Institute for Family, Community, and Opportunity
The Heritage Foundation

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