NR Daily: CAP’s Misleading, Historically Inaccurate Report on the Racist ‘Origin’ of School Vouchers

The Center for American Progress (CAP), a leftist advocacy group, released last week a new report titled "The Racist Origins of Private School Vouchers." The report, which was cheered by American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten and celebrated at its release by Bobby Scott, the ranking Democrat on the House Education Committee, plays fast and loose with the facts to offer a warped and historically inaccurate history of school choice. Not so long ago, CAP was a civil and reasonably fair-minded progressive voice on education reform ...

July 17 2017

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CAP's Misleading, Historically Inaccurate Report on the Racist 'Origin' of School Vouchers Frederick M. Hess The Center for American Progress (CAP), a leftist advocacy group, released last week a new report titled "The Racist Origins of Private School Vouchers." The report, which was cheered by American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten and celebrated at its release by Bobby Scott, the ranking Democrat on the House... READ MORE Canada and Sweden's Misguided Abortion Crusade Jeff Cimmino The governments of Canada and Sweden are fighting for the right to kill the unborn in the developing world. Canada has allotted almost $250 million to this cause, and that's less than half of... Enough with 'That Same Old Love' Kathryn Jean Lopez Ben Sasse preemptively described his book on our adolescent culture as not an old man yelling at the kids on his lawn. And I'm about to do the same about this column. It's going to sound at... ADVERTISEMENT A Brave Lady's Fight against ISIS Jay Nordlinger There are millions of videos floating around the Internet, of various kinds. Like you, I have seen many of these videos. And I suppose the most moving one I have ever seen is of Vian Dakhil, a... Trump's Education Department Takes on the Campus-Rape Lie David French Last week, while the most in the media fixed their eyes on Donald Trump Jr., far-left activists geared up for a different kind of assault on the Trump administration: a full-court press to... Recycled Gore Julie Kelly At least one environmentalist is capitalizing on President Trump's withdrawal from the Paris climate accord: Al Gore. The former vice president and Nobel Peace Prize winner is back in the... Jacob Rees-Mogg Is Finally Having His Moment Will Collier 'Here he comes," murmured a fellow American student who'd arrived at Oxford the term before I did. "Churchill." The time was January of 1991, the place the ramshackle debate chamber of the... ADVERTISEMENT This Time We Win: Revisiting the Tet Offensive James S. Robbins 'This Time We Win corrects simplistic interpretations of Tet that are often used to create the impression of inevitable defeat in Vietnam and other conflicts. This book deserves a wide readership.' - Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster, USA (Ret.) LEARN MORE B-1B Lancer California Wildfires ADVERTISEMENT Follow Us & Share 215 Lexington Ave., New York, NY, 10016, USA Your Preferences | Unsubscribe | Privacy View this e-mail in your browser.