Obama’s School Discipline Guidance Could Be Doomed. Here’s Why That’s Great News.

Plus: Senate's Conservative Prison Reform Advances Trump's Public Safety and Economic Growth Agendas

Dec 19, 2018   Good morning from Washington, where the Trump administration intends to improve school safety by revoking the Obama administration's approach to student discipline. Fred Lucas has an interview with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, while Jonathan Butcher explains what the policy change will mean. A bill to reform the criminal justice system will be good for both the economy and public safety, John Malcolm and John-Michael Seibler argue. Plus: Walter Williams on the fatal consequences of the FDA's practices, and Justin Bogie on shutdown politics.     Commentary Obama's School Discipline Guidance Could Be Doomed. Here's Why That's Great News. When schools are following the Obama-era guidance, difficult and even dangerous students can remain in class at the expense of other students. More Commentary Senate's Conservative Prison Reform Advances Trump's Public Safety and Economic Growth Agendas The First Step Act, under consideration in the Senate now, promotes evidence-based reforms from conservative states that have helped to reduce crime. More News 5 Takeaways From the Trump Administration's School Safety Report The 177-page report tackles building security, violence in the media, and school resource officers, and opposes raising the age for buying guns. More News Indian Movie Star Leads a Youthful Revolution If you've ever watched Bollywood films, you may have seen the actor Pawan Kalyan. He's something like the Tom Cruise of India; now he's starting his own political movement. He and Nadendla Manohar, who is part of the Jana Sena Party in India, sit down with us. More Commentary What Would Actually Be Affected in a Government Shutdown Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid payments, as well as veterans benefits, would continue uninterrupted. More Commentary The Food and Drug Administration's Invisible Victims As many as 100,000 people died from secondary heart attacks waiting for Food and Drug Administration approval of a medication. More           The Daily Signal is brought to you by more than half a million members of The Heritage Foundation. Donate to The Daily Signal Find us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter How are we doing? We welcome your comments, suggestions, and story tips. Please reply to this email or send us a note at comments@dailysignal.com. The Daily Signal 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 (800) 546-2843     Add morningbell@heritage.org to your address book to ensure that you receive emails from us. You are subscribed to this newsletter as johnmhames@comcast.net. If you want to receive other Heritage Foundation newsletters, or opt out of this newsletter, please click here to update your subscription.

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