WHAT WE’RE READING
“Education Secretary Linda McMahon said states will be able to put conditions on scholarship organizations as part of the federal tax-credit scholarship program, weighing in on one of the biggest questions for governors considering whether to opt into the program,” writes Erica Meltzer in Chalkbeat. This is perplexing, contradicting as it does the conventional wisdom that the Treasury Department’s regulations are unlikely to let governors put their own stamp on the initiative.
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“In America’s college dorms and high school homerooms, young adults are seeing the world differently, occupying separate online spaces and even demonstrating an aversion to dating,” writes Kevin Mahnken. The Gen-Z partisan gender gap—with “girls repelled by Trump’s policies and boys disaffected by Democrats’ seeming indifference to their concerns”—is emerging much earlier and appears much wider than differences in older generations. —The 74
Editor's note: This was first published on Mike Petrilli's Substack, SCHOOLED, a twice-weekly free Substack and email newsletter restarting the education-reform conversation.
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