Charter Schools – On Liberty Watch

On Charter Schools

John Stossel recently produced a short video on charter schools. It is well worth watching. See below.

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Florida House Votes to Curtail Preferred-Pronoun Use among Students and Teachers April 1, 2023
The vote on Friday was split virtually along party lines.
Federal Judge Blocks Tennessee Law Banning Minors from Drag Shows April 1, 2023
Per the law, anyone who hosted or performed in the presence of children could be charged with a class A misdemeanor.
Trump Will Not Be Handcuffed for Court Appearance in NYC April 1, 2023
The former president will still have a mugshot and fingerprints taken.
When German Memorials to an Awful Past Grow Tired and Ambivalent April 1, 2023
The Checkpoint Charlie Museum seems suited for tourists, and the air-raid ruins of a church convey memory exhaustion and mixed signals.
Will Xi Jinping’s ‘Breakout’ Strategy Succeed? April 1, 2023
Xi is trying to centralize his control over China and make gains in Europe and the Middle East. His neighbors must counter him before he finishes the job.

Quillette Weekly April 1, 2023
Heather Mac Donald on Stanford's meltdown, Christopher Snowdon on respectable conspiracy theories, and a Quillette editorial on Posie Parker's protest.
Claire Lehmann
Remembering Rumpole April 1, 2023
John Mortimer’s fictional barrister was—like his creator—a rogue redeemed by a fierce commitment to the presumption of innocence.
Kevin Mims
The Rise of the Respectable Conspiracy Theory March 31, 2023
COVID, Trump, Brexit—everybody’s had something to break their brains in recent years and some people may never recover.
Christopher J. Snowdon

An Obscenity, Considered March 31, 2023
Tomorrow, Putin’s Russia will assume the presidency of the U.N. Security Council. A look back to Woodrow Wilson, via Herbert Hoover.
The Israel-Explainer Returns March 31, 2023
Israel is in crisis. An invaluable explainer — of all matters Israeli — is Haviv Rettig Gur.
Salman Rushdie’s Victory March 30, 2023
Victory City ends with the sentence, ‘Words are the only victors.’ In the flesh or not, Rushdie will outlive all the devil’s tools who have tried to kill him.