Education beat: The Future of Schooling
“Parents took advantage of education options like never before during the pandemic, to the point where K-12 schooling in the years ahead could look a lot different than it did pre-Covid,” predicts The Wall Street Journal’s Jason L. Riley. Not only did charter-school enrollments surge while traditional public schools’ fell; “thousands of families” created “learning pods” or “microschools,” with their children taught by hired instructors or parent volunteers. Many of these education “hubs” remain because parents and kids prefer them. Meanwhile, Team Biden and progressive lawmakers “have spent the past two years trying to undermine charter-school expansion” because it’s “a threat” to “the education status quo.”
Conservative: Black Lives Don’t Matter to Dems
Though homicides rose 29% in 2020 (the largest spike on record) and continue climbing, Democrats claim that either crime is “a racist fiction” or, as it’s lower than in the early 1990s, concern about it is “overblown,” charges City Journal’s Heather Mac Donald. Yet since blacks “have borne the brunt of the increased violence,” that’s like saying “black lives really don’t matter.” Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, for example, blamed his midterm loss on the New York Post spreading “hysteria” over crime. Indeed, The New York Times “has chastely turned its reportorial eyes away” from crime; “only…
