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Breaking the Public School Monopoly on Education Overdue
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- By Star Parker
The Trump administration has been pursuing, on two fronts, the critical objective of fixing America's broken education system.
One, an executive order by President Donald Trump, issued shortly after he assumed office, is to dismantle the Department of Education. Outright closing of the department is only possible by an act of Congress. However, the president is moving to accomplish the same objective administratively by closing down offices and major staff elimination. The Supreme Court recently upheld the president's authority to do this.
The second front is advancement of parental choice in education. Give parents the power and authority to educate their children as they choose and send their children to a school that reflects their values.
Time For New Immigration Law
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- By Star Parker
Last month, the Trump administration Labor Department slapped a hold on Biden administration rules on H-2A visas, which allow U.S. farmers to hire foreign workers when they are unable to fill their jobs with Americans.
The H-2A rules were already stringent regarding requirements about pay and providing room and board and transportation to workers.
But the Biden administration, under the thumb of union pressure, added additional stringencies, allowing guest workers "collective action," giving unions access to pitch their line onsite and making it more difficult to fire workers.
Dear Senators, Pass One Big Beautiful Bill
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- By Star Parker
The House passed the One Big Beautiful Bill by a margin of one vote.
Well-deserved kudos have been conveyed to the masterful leadership of Speaker Mike Johnson, who navigated through a minefield to get done what needed to get done.
Now it's up to the Senate.
It's impossible not to think now of the admonition to not let the "perfect be the enemy of the good."
In this massive 1,000-plus-page piece of legislation, there is something to bother everybody.
The 'N' in SNAP Means Nutrition
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- By Star Parker
SNAP, or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps, is one of the nation's largest welfare programs.
And, like all welfare programs, it is massive, it has grown prodigiously over the years and it is inefficient.
One glaring issue, which is gaining attention as a result of new Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again campaign, is the kinds of foods that recipients of SNAP funds can purchase.
Can't Make Government Efficient
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- By Star Parker
Steve Jobs co-founded Apple when he was 21 years old.
Nine years later, at age 30, he was purged and fired from the company he founded and built by the professional management he helped recruit.
Eleven years later, after that management brought the firm to the edge of bankruptcy, Jobs returned to the helm and saved the company.
In 1997, when Jobs returned as interim CEO, Apple lost $1.04 billion and estimates were that it was 90 days from insolvency.
Education Freedom Meets Religious Freedom
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- By Star Parker
Two important developments in education occurred over the last week. One was a sign of the problem we have. The other was a sign of the solution.
The sign of the problem, to which hopefully the U.S. Supreme Court will provide the correct answer, falls under the headline of sex education.
The court has just heard Mahmoud v. Taylor, in which families from a variety of faiths -- Muslims, Jews, Christians -- are fighting imposition by the Board of Education in Montgomery County, Maryland, requirements that children learn material about gender ideology.
Harvard Still Wants Its DC Sugar Daddy
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- By Star Parker
"No government -- regardless of which party is in power -- should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue."
This defiant and bipartisan defense of the purity of education, delivered by Harvard president Alan Garber, sounds fantastic, right? After all, what society that pretends to value objectivity would dare to allow a government to control the educational decisions of private institutions?
Barack Obama -- blessed is he -- agreed, celebrating Harvard as a shining beacon of academic freedom!
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