School choice programs, like ESAs, help students break through rigid and out-of-touch systems while empowering families with educational freedom and flexibility. The focus should always be on the students, not the system.

The next generation of choice programs will place families in the driver’s seat and help educators operate outside of stultifying bureaucratic systems. With those funds, parents pay or approve educational expenses, including private school tuition, tutoring, online courses, and special education therapies. Best of all, parents can roll over unused funds from one year to the next for future education expenses, including college.

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HURTING NOT HELPING

Want Fentanyl Vapes? Keep Banning Flavors.

Similar to the nation’s failed experiment with alcohol prohibition, bans on tobacco and vapor products will only help to strengthen the black market and increase the profits of clandestine actors that skirt both regulations and taxes. And, due to continued delay by the FDA, questionable international companies have already been able to infiltrate the existing marketplace with thousands of counterfeit vapes. Read More

MEDIA SPOTLIGHT

America Reports | After Attending In-Person With Rep. Lisa McClain, Riley Gaines Reacts to SOTU Address Watch

America’s Newsroom | U.S. House Education and the Workforce Committee Holds Heated First Hearing Watch

Chicago’s Morning Answer | The Fight to Keep Women’s Sports Female Listen

The Federalist | ‘Detransitioners’ Are Being Abandoned by Medical Professionals Who Devastated Their Bodies and Minds Read

The Washington Times | Stop Allowing Zip Codes To Dictate Where Kids Go to School Read

DID YOU KNOW

Biden Blew a Chance To Be Honest About Inflation

By overemphasizing that prices are not rising as fast as they were last summer and downplaying that prices are still markedly higher than when he was sworn in, the president comes across as tone-deaf and disconnected from the everyday realities of most Americans. Americans are pessimistic about the economy precisely because of the stationary nature of inflation. Read More

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TWO TRUTHS & A LIE

The Painful Reality of Expensive Heat

Can you identify which of the following three statements about home heat and energy is not true?

A. America leads the world in overall emissions reductions because of advancements in the oil and gas industry.
B. The main energy sources for home heat include electricity, natural gas, propane, and heating oil.
C. The increase in winter heating bills this season is due to colder temperatures.

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CAPSULE REVIEW

Disabled Lives Aren’t Worth Less

The Protecting Health Care for All Patients Act would prohibit all federal healthcare programs from using quality-adjusted life years, or Qalys, to make coverage or reimbursement decisions. Qalys place a greater value on a year of additional life for a “healthy” person than they do for a person with disabilities. That’s discriminatory.

House Votes To Stop Bill Endangering U.S. Citizen Voting Rights

Changing the qualifications for who can vote has an impact on voters who already meet the qualifications. The D.C. Council’s Racial Equity Impact Assessment listed the benefits of the bill as providing non-citizens a “sense of purpose,” “building networks,” and a way to formally “express” their views. But what about the impact of this election change on existing voters — the people that D.C. City Council members are supposed to currently represent — and the assessment on how it impacts American voters?

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