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Our Advocacy Network in Action: Jade Oliver Jade Oliver was living in Michigan trying to choose a career. She thought about being an architect and an engineer and a nurse. She worked in the burn unit. She did hospice work. “I didn’t like the sad parts of hospital work,” she says. “I knew I needed to work with children. That’s where my heart was.” One […]
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Iowa Increases Funding for Vouchers, Expands Eligibility Iowa was once respected for the quality of its public schools. Now the Republican elected officials are tearing down the state’s public schools. They launched a voucher program, and they are now expanding it, at the expense of public schools. There are some things we know for sure about voucher programs after three decades of […]
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Carol Burris on the Wisdom Rick Hess Gleans from Uber Drivers Years ago, there was buzz about New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman’s tendency to quote taxi drivers to capture the view of the “man on the street.” Carol Burris, executive director of the Network for public Education, has recently noticed that Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute has a similar journalistic gambit. He picks […]
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Bill Kristol: Reject the Mob, Every Mob Bill Kristol is a Never Trumper who writes for The Bulwark. He reminds me of my conservative roots. I have always feared mobs. Once mobs form, it’s impossible to know what direction they will take and who is leading them. In the few times in my life that I inadvertently found myself stuck in a […]
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Haaretz: Hamas Releases a Hostage Video from Gaza American media covers the pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses, but ignores the protests in Israel, usually led by the families of the hostages who were seized on October 7. Rescuing the hostages was one of the main goals of the Israeli invasion of Gaza, but that goal has taken a back seat to the other […]
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