America
Wildfire Relief Cash Excluded White Victims
O
rganizers of FireAid, the celebrity-studded
six-hour benefit that raised $100 million for victims of this year’s California wildfires, gave money to unrelated programs that aid only “Black and Brown communities” and illegal immigrants, according to The Washington Free Beacon. The newspaper found that some of the groups explicitly exclude white people from their services. One recipient, Greenline
Housing Foundation, received $4.8 million for housing for applicants who “must be a Black or Hispanic person,” the organization said on its website. The Black Freedom Fund,
dedicated to promoting “Black power-building,” received $7.6 million for “disaster relief.” Its website said it would assist only groups “led and controlled by Black people.” The Alliance for a Better
Community received $5.9 million in “disaster relief” that it distributes through its Fuerza Fund, which states it is “doubling down on its commitment to immigrant and undocumented families.” FireAid said it has hired the law firm Latham & Watkins “to conduct a comprehensive review of its governance and grantmaking process.”
COMMENTARY
Can’t Be Wrong School choice programs are surging, says Stephen Moore.
Million Kids T
his is the dawning of the age of school choice. This school year, a record number of
kids — especially those from low-income families — have opted out of traditional public schools. As many as 1 million children
are participating in public school alternatives, including voucher programs, tuition tax credits, scholarship programs, or charter schools. That’s a good thing, right? After all,
to paraphrase the famous axiom: When schools compete, kids win. But that’s not the way teachers unions
and the education aristocracy see it. The New York Times notes that education freedom is causing a “crisis in the public schools.” Why? Because so many families are
opting for better school alternatives. Isn’t this mass exodus from public schools and the reign of teachers unions prima facie evidence that they are failing? A new study by the Commonwealth
Institute in Pennsylvania finds that almost four of 10 public schools have a problem with violence, bullying, guns on the premises, and other infractions. How can kids learn if they don’t
feel safe? That hasn’t stopped the trillion-dollar education empire from striking back at
school choice programs. The Washington Post published
a front-page hit piece in August on a highly touted Arizona choice program with as many as 300,000 kids participating. It’s become a model for the nation. The Post complains that so
many kids are switching to private alternative schools that many of the failing public schools in Phoenix will have to shut down. The Post says the community is going
through a “grieving process,” and some families are “heart broken.” The school librarian pouts it feels like “death.” Note to the parents whose kids have
gained access to better schools: They’re feeling liberated. The logical conclusion of teachers
unions and educators’ opposition to school choice is that only kids from rich families should have the right to attend great schools. The Times acknowledges that
vouchers and other choice programs are forcing public schools to clean up their act, serve the families in the community, and compete head-to-head for students. That’s the whole point. Raise the standards everywhere to end the curse of declining national test scores.
Stephen Moore is a former Trump senior economic adviser and the cofounder of Unleash Prosperity, which advocates for educational choice.
Trump ‘Shades’ Obama P
resident donald trump moved a portrait of former President Barack Obama to a location
in the White House where visitors are not allowed, CNN reported. The portrait is now hanging at the top of the Executive Mansion’s Grand Staircase — a location
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inaccessible to visitors — alongside paintings of former Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. In July, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi
Gabbard claimed Obama’s national security team “manufactured and politicized intelligence” as part of the Russiagate probe, what she called a “years-long coup” against Trump after he defeated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential race.
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