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Still flush with billions of dollars in pandemic aid, many schools around the country are pouring funds into padding their payrolls or expanding programs they pursued long before the outbreak.
President Donald Trump’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2021 would reduce the size and reach of the federal bureaucracy significantly by shifting government responsibilities back to constitutional priorities and empowering state and local governments. These reforms, contained in the request Trump sent Monday morning to Congress, would put the budget on track to balance and represent a significant first step toward reducing spending and stabilizing the nation’s unsustainable debt.
Over the course of the 2020 school year, “pandemic pods” became a popular tool of parents as either a supplement to, or replacement for, traditional K-12 schooling. Now, thanks in part to Heritage Foundation research and collaboration with the State Policy Network, parents in West Virginia can continue utilizing this educational option. “Pods” are small groups of students who are taught from home by a privately hired tutor. Parents often pool resources and then form neighborhood learning pods so that their children can learn together.
Critical race theory is a racist, anti-American ideology based on the idea that everything in life is connected to racism and power—that all white people are oppressors, all minorities are the oppressed, and virtually all institutions in America exist to keep white people on top.
The State of the Union address touched on everything from inflation to the invasion of Ukraine. Heritage Foundation experts analyzed it all.