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Empowering Parents with School Choice
Reduces Wokeism in Education <[link removed]> - Conservative
school choice skeptics are right to raise alarm over the prospective regulatory capture of expanded school choice programs. However, they are mistaken in fearing that giving parents the ability to choose their children’s schools will not reduce wokeism. If regulations can be held in check, as many states have managed to do with their charter sectors, schools tend to be less woke. Conservatives would do well to be vigilant against regulatory capture rather than resigning themselves to defeat. Parental empowerment represents a viable path to fighting back against woke indoctrination in K–12 schools. Controlling wokeism can be achieved by ensuring that schools are more accountable to parents than to regulators. Heritage Expert: Jay Greene <[link removed]>
Biden Hands China’s Xi Propaganda Victory at G-20 <[link removed]> - Biden’s eagerness to please Beijing was clearly on display Monday. While only those who attended the three-hour closed-door meeting know for sure what transpired, public readouts and the limited footage that was televised show Biden putting most of his emphasis on feel-good issues, such as avoiding conflict and cooperating on transnational concerns, such as climate change. While Biden also brought up thorny topics such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Xinjiang, they did not feature prominently in the official reports of the meeting. Heritage Expert: Michael Cunningham <[link removed]>
Even families who don’t use Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Accounts support them <[link removed]> -
“Everybody seems to understand that what is best for each student is what should be done,” Ms. Meade said. She calls the claim that the accounts create a fight over taxpayer money for K-12 education a “straw man” argument, noting that Arizona lawmakers approved additional resources for public schools at the same time as they expanded the accounts. Allowing every child the chance to apply for an education savings account did not divide families in Arizona. It gave parents something to agree on: that allowing parents and students to choose how and where children learn gives every child the chance to succeed. Now that’s a good idea in every state. Heritage Expert: Jonathan Butcher <[link removed]>
Heritage Expert: Senate Republicans Must Reject Effort to Undermine Religious Freedom for Millions of Americans <[link removed]> - The U.S. Senate is expected to vote Wednesday on the deceptively named “Respect for Marriage Act.” Roger Severino, vice president of domestic policy at The Heritage Foundation, released the following statement Tuesday ahead of the vote on this unnecessary and harmful legislation that will target Americans with a particular religious belief: “No American should face legal threats
for holding sincere religious beliefs or convictions. However, the Senate is threatening to empower woke activists inside and outside of government to attack people of faith with this bill that will be used as a cudgel against those who believe in the reality of marriage as between a man and a woman. This bill provides no benefit or protection that same-sex couples don’t already have. All this bill does is target people of faith who don’t support woke ideology.” Heritage Experts: Roger Severino <[link removed]>,
Jay Richards <[link removed]>, and Emma
Waters <[link removed]>
Conservatives Split on Future of Mail-In Voting, Ballot Harvesting <[link removed]> - The Republican Party focuses on getting voters out for Election Day, but generally doesn’t do a good job in getting voters out for the early-voting season, said Hans von Spakovsky, manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative at The Heritage Foundation, parent organization of The Daily Signal. “At the same time that Republicans are doing everything they can to increase the security of mail-in ballots and to limit their use only to individuals who can’t make it to a polling place because they are too sick or disabled or perhaps are overseas—like
perhaps our American military folks—they should use the rules to the extent they can legally,” von Spakovsky told The Daily Signal. Heritage Expert: Hans von Spakovsky <[link removed]>
Ron Johnson Backs Rick Scott to Unseat Mitch McConnell <[link removed]> - Republican Sens. Ron Johnson and Mike Braun will be nominating Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., to unseat Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. “I’ll be nominating him,” Johnson, R-Wis., told The Daily Signal in a Tuesday evening phone call. “What I’ve been asking for is a different governing model for our conference, one that is far more inclusive, far more collaborative, far more businesslike,” Johnson said, adding that thus far, he hasn’t seen “a commitment to really resist additional spending.” The Daily Signal Expert: Mary
Margarete Olohan <[link removed]>
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