Libertarian: A Rush To Use School Choice
Public-school enrollment is falling not just because of “the declining birth rate, but also because a growing share of the population prefers alternatives like private schools and homeschooling,” cheers Reason’s J.D. Tuccille. And those families are “increasingly assisted with funding from education choice programs.” Across the country, students have been opting out of public schools and into “charter, private schools and homeschooling” options. One reason: “Families were horrified by learning losses they saw in their children when schools bungled remote learning during pandemic lockdowns.” Also, participation in “private school choice programs” is surging due in part to “Education Savings Accounts,” which “make education funding portable.” Childhood education “will be better, since the schools will be chosen by families, not assigned by default.”
From the right: Is the UN Worth Anything?
UN General Assembly delegates meet this month to “celebrate with dignity the eight decades of global concord that their body represents,” notes Seth Barron at Tablet. But more Americans are wondering why “their tax dollars are funding . . . programs, efforts, and positions of power” for “dictatorships” that are then given “a global platform to fulminate about the past and present crimes of the West.” Meantime, the United Nations has failed grotesquely in its peacekeeping missions as time and again a “force was already on the ground when horrible massacres were conducted.” Sen. Ted Cruz suggests, “If this is what it means to participate in international institutions, we need to fundamentally reassess our involvement.”
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