Opportunity: The incoming Congress has a big chance to improve education for every student and give parents more control over their children’s education. 

• Heritage education experts Lindsey Burke, Ph.D., director of the Center for Education Policy and Mark A. Kolokotrones fellow, and Jonathan Butcher, Will Skillman fellow, lay out the details of what Congress can do to put parents and young children first in education. 
• “It is well past time for Congress to allow more choices among existing preschool and K–12 programs,” they write. Read their report here. 

Meanwhile, Texas is poised to pass a sweeping school choice bill in 2023, says Jay Greene, Ph.D., a senior research fellow at Heritage. He explains what’s changed in the Lone Star State. Read more. 

What: Democrats hope to ram through a sweeping amnesty bill before they lose control of the U.S. House next year. 

• 15 groups signed a letter to lawmakers warning them against such a move. 
• “Congress should focus on securing the border and enforcing our immigration laws not rewarding those who violated them,” they say. 

Learn more about the coalition and read the letter here.  

Survey says: The more that voters learned about the bill, which 12 Republicans helped to pass, the less they supported it.  

• “Americans across the board have strong concerns about this unnecessary legislation,” said Heritage President Kevin Roberts. 
• A Heritage analysis finds that, while the bill doesn’t add protections for gay couples, it empowers activists to attack people of faith.   

What: China is rushing to expand its nuclear arsenal.  

• That has three serious implications for national security, writes Patty-Jane Geller, senior policy analyst at Heritage’s Allison Center for National Defense. Read what these implications are here. 

More: China isn’t the only threat, Geller writes in a separate in-depth report that also details what the U.S. must do. Read that report here. 

• As Administration Cracks Down on Taxpayers, Government’s Own Improper Payments Go Unchecked 
• Supreme Court Justices Question Biden Administration’s Reckless Border Policy 
• 4 Charts Expose Feds’ Hypocrisy: Cracking Down on Taxpayers While Own Improper Payments Go Unchecked 
• Balenciaga Photo Fiasco Just Latest Attempt to Mainstream Sexualization of Children 
• Venezuela Is Bizarre Piece of Biden’s Incoherent Energy Policy Puzzle 
• Creative Destruction and the Conservative Movement 
• California’s New Handmaid’s Tale 

Peter Brookes, a senior research fellow at Heritage’s Allison Center for National Defense, told Fox Business that President Biden’s weak response to the protests is  “another example of the failed foreign policy of the Biden administration.” Watch it here.