🍎 📏 Teachers’ job satisfaction levels appear to have hit an all-time low, and it's not surprising why. The COVID-19 pandemic was difficult for teachers and students alike as classes were forced online. And when the school doors finally opened again, teachers were made to create and enforce socially-distanced classrooms. It remains to be seen if the public school system leaders can fix the problems that their policy decisions created for public school teachers. Read more.

Teacher Auguste Meyrat explains how his classroom has suffered. Listen to his story.

Education freedom creates better opportunities and healthier school environments for both teachers and students. Share your story or thoughts on school choice today. ⤵️
PUT KIDS FIRST

CHAMPION MESSAGE

HURTING NOT HELPING

FDA Needs To Promote Tobacco Harm Reduction, Not Bans
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced new “proposed product standards” that would eliminate menthol cigarettes and ban characterizing flavors (other than tobacco) in cigars. The FDA claims that such a move would “prevent children from becoming the next generation of smokers and help adult smokers quit.” While addressing youth use of combustible cigarettes and helping people who smoke quit is laudable, the agency ought to focus its priority on products that have both helped adults quit smoking and essentially eliminated youth cigarette use: electronic cigarettes, also known as e-cigarettes and/or vapor products. Read more.

DID YOU KNOW

White House Forest Plan Falls Short of Proactive Management
On Earth Day, the White House announced executive action to “strengthen America’s forests." A corresponding White House Fact Sheet lists their priorities as follows: reducing wildlife risk, strengthening forests for local economics, combating global deforestation, and employing nature to combat climate change. But it’s reasonable to lack some confidence in the plans as currently, USFS reports a backlog of 80 million acres needing restoration. Read more.

IN THE NETWORK

Mama Bear Asra Nomani Joins Independent Women’s Network
Asra Nomani is a self-proclaimed “accidental activist” who challenged her school board for its incompetence. She has been known best as a "mama bear" inspiring parents nationwide to assert their power in their kids’ education. Connect with Asra and other local activists by activating your membership on IWNetwork.com today. 
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TWO TRUTHS & A LIE

Student Loan Debt and Forgiveness
President Biden recently made public comments about considering a plan to cancel student debt. While this move is popular with many in the credentialed class, it transfers the burden to taxpayers, including those that saved to pay back any debt they incurred. 

Can you identify which of the following statements about loan forgiveness is not true?

A. Student loan debt is becoming a large crisis for millions of younger Americans.
B. The taxpayer is already on the hook for unpaid student loans.
C. Student loan forgiveness is a way to help out working class Americans.
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She Thinks Podcast

  • New Episode: Gabriella Hoffman, a columnist and podcaster, joins the program to discuss the future of environmentalism. Listen here.
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  • Next Episode: This Friday, Danielle Butcher, executive vice president of the American Conservation Coalition, joins the show to explain the free-market approach to environmental politics. Hear it here.

CAPSULE REVIEW

Grown-Up Mother’s Day Wish List

A popular political Tweet about Mother’s Day is floating around. It says, "Things I want for Mother’s Day: federally paid maternity leave, pelvic floor therapy covered by insurance, lactation consultants for all, changing tables in all gender bathrooms, to not set our careers back when we have a baby, and affordable child care." It’s a nice list, but as with everything, the devil is in the details.
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Don’t Bring Disorder in Law Schools To the Court


Recently at Yale Law School, over 100 students disrupted a debate, ironically, about a recent First Amendment case. But the protestors attempted to drown out the event before it even began, even though the organizers had planned a time for questions and answers at the end. Such disorder at law schools has dire consequences for the quality of legal education.
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