Roper: School choice, not pre-K, key to attracting young families
Pre-K programs do not benefit children over the long term, and in some cases it appears that they actually do long term harm.
Lawrence Zupan: Vermont needs a senator for the future, not one stuck in the past
Unfortunately, incumbent Bernie Sanders is still peddling the economic, educational, energy and social welfare ideas that became popular in “progressive” circles decades ago but have failed in practice.
Empowerment Scholarship Accounts are a role model for school choice
An Empowerment Scholarship Account is essentially a prepaid bank card that parents can use to pay for their child’s education costs — books, tutoring, private school tuition, and educational therapy, for example.
State Headliners: Latest immigrant caravan led by Honduran socialist revolutionary Fuentes
Note to CNN: The leader of this latest staged immigrant caravan isn’t just a “former lawmaker from Honduras,” he’s a socialist revolutionary.
DeVos says millennials like socialism due to lack of civics education
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos spoke this week about her efforts to restore local control of education, the Trump administration’s priorities for higher education, and the rising support of socialism among young people.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions at Heritage: Courts embracing dangerous forms of activism
“If the judiciary can subject the executive branch to new, disruptive and invasive reviews, the power of the judiciary is enhanced while the power of the executive has been diminished. That is a tilt we cannot abide.”
State Headliners: Trump tax cuts deliver $15.5 million windfall to state coffers
Vermont corporate income tax (CIT) receipts through September, 2018 jumped a whopping 80 percent over the first nine months of 2017. Grateful lawmakers can thank the main architect of the 2017 federal tax cuts: President Donald Trump.
McClaughry: The Quebec election continues conservative trend
Most Vermonters live within an hour’s drive of Quebec, Canada. There have been elections in the provinces throughout the year, and in almost every case provincial voters have chosen more conservative parties and candidates.
Mexico ready to help US enforce border after Trump threatens foreign aid cuts, military might
Mexico sent federal police to its southern border Wednesday with a warning that they will detain and deport any members of a highly publicized migrant caravan who try to enter the country without a visa.
Why states can’t go their own way on net neutrality
Four states — Oregon, Washington, Vermont, and now California — have enacted state-level net neutrality laws. However, power to regulate in this area is expressly granted to the federal government by the Constitution.
State Headliners: New England power grid prez backs carbon tax, in ‘Red Green’ fashion
In this State Headliners, the power grid chief is set to back a carbon tax, and feds approve Vermont Yankee sale.
Ethan Allen Institute comments on Individual Mandate Working Group draft report
The proposal says to the person who prefers not to obtain insurance: “Your government will not fine you for failing to buy health insurance. But if you are unlucky enough to run up a big medical bill, you will be paying a piece of it off every year at tax time.”