Neal McCluskey
Director and Writer at Cato Institute
Director, Cato Institute's Center for Educational Freedom. Views are my own, especially on #grilling, #BBQ, or the #Hoyas! Author, The Fractured Schoolhouse
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2 weeks ago |
cato.org | Neal McCluskey
Generated with ElevenLabs AI technology. In a decision that surprised me in its rapidity, but not its outcome, the Supreme Court deadlocked four to four, leaving in place an Oklahoma Supreme Court decision against the creation of a Roman Catholic cyber charter school.
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3 weeks ago |
cato.org | Neal McCluskey
Generated with ElevenLabs AI technology. A $5 billion scholarship tax credit is a part of the budget reconciliation bill just introduced in Congress. As a member of the Educational Freedom Supporters of America in good standing, few would doubt that I think school choice is an excellent thing. And I certainly understand the desire to take it nationwide via one big, beautiful, federal bill.
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1 month ago |
cato.org | Neal McCluskey
They are also all that experience supports. The federal role in ending forced racial school segregation in many states was necessary and appropriate. So has been supplying school choice in Washington, DC, through the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program. Other than those things, there is not much to be impressed by.
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1 month ago |
cato.org | Neal McCluskey
The federal government should not be telling schools what their discipline policies will and will not be. Ideally, those decisions would be made by freely operating educators and families in a system of school choice. Absent that, schools and districts ought to be able to make their own decisions, and the feds should only intervene if there is significant evidence of discipline driven by racial or other group-based animus.
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2 months ago |
cato.org | Neal McCluskey
In the U.S., education has always been a state, local and family responsibility. Few people throughout our history would have imagined putting an often distant federal government in charge, and the Constitution gives it no power over education. Thus, eliminating the department, and possibly moving some of its core functions to other executive offices, would hardly cause “chaos.” While federal officials have gotten too deep into education, nothing they do is essential.
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She's not wrong that it's an economic advantage.
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