Happy Friday from Washington, where education pioneer Mary McLeod Bethune just became the first black American to be honored in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall. Educators gathered at The Heritage Foundation find much to emulate, Jarrett Stepman reports. A video of sluggish police response to the school shooting in Texas defies belief, security expert Steve Bucci writes. On the podcast, Virginia Allen explores a California bill promoting gender transitions for kids. Plus: Biden presides over surging border deaths; a cartoonist with the right stuff; and pro-lifers gear up to serve women in need. On this date in 1979, in a nationally televised speech, President Jimmy Carter says Americans’ lack of “moral and spiritual confidence” hinders efforts to overcome an energy crisis and recession.