From left to right: Democrats have given up on good schools

“Better schools are no longer part of the core litany of promises made by Democratic candidates” deplores Jonathan Chait of New York magazine. For example, on Kamala Harris’ issues page, “almost nothing concerns K-12 education.” Bill Clinton, in his day, identified “schools as one of the four pillars of government” reinforcing “public loyalty to the Democratic Party,” and Barack Obama made “a promise to reform and improve public schools.” . But Democrats abandoned “education reform” for a more “union-friendly stance” because “the moral ambition of providing a quality public school for every child has proven too controversial to pursue.” Instead, they “attempt to maintain the status quo, even one in which many low-income children have no choice but to fail in school.” Democrats are “losing what was once a major advantage.”

Education Bureau: Tim Walz’s Dangerous Awakening

“One factor that pushed Walz to the top” of Kamala Harris’s list against Governor Josh Shapiro (D-Pennsylvania) “stands out,” observes Nathan Harden of RealClearEducation: Walz was “more progressive on education issues.” Shapiro flirted with a private school voucher program; Walz, as governor of Minnesota, “strongly opposed” school choice. He also supported critical race theory, supported pro-Palestinian protesters, blocked libraries from removing sexually explicit books from children’s shelves, and required boys’ restrooms to stock tampons. “If Pennsylvania Goes Red,” Democrats Might Ask: “Was the Uncompromising Progressivism That Helped Walz Secure the Vice President’s Victory Over Shapiro” the Very Thing That Gives Trump a Second Term? ? »

Energy Beat: Making America Drill Again

“To fight inflation, former President Donald Trump’s No. 1 policy goal, if re-elected, would be to ‘drill, baby, drill'” notes Washington Times editorial board. When he “was president, the United States claimed the title of the world’s largest producer of oil and natural gas.” He also “withdrew from the Paris Climate Accord, approved the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines” and “opened Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing.” . Then, “the Biden-Harris administration reversed almost all of these policies,” resulting in “a nearly 30% increase in energy costs.” “Harris’ campaign is largely about maintaining President Biden’s clean energy agenda. » Trump’s vow to “drill, baby, drill” promises to ease the strain on Americans’ pocketbooks. “Voters will decide next week whether they prefer a top-down approach to energy or whether they let the free market and American ingenuity inform our future. »

Hate Monitoring: Cali’s Anti-Semitic Program

Why on earth would teachers in Los Angeles plan to “transport busloads of children to an anti-Israel rally, during the school day, without arousing suspicion”? asks Abigail Shrier to The Free Press. This is part of the same phenomenon that has seen “university students, particularly at our most elite schools, vandalizing buildings, setting up illegal encampments” for Hamas. The fact is that when California Governor Gavin Newsom “signed into law requiring schools to make completion of ethnic studies” – a form of critical race theory – “a graduation requirement, he effectively made anti-Semitism a formal characteristic of the California school.” “In schools where anti-Israeli propaganda is broadcast, schoolchildren turn against their Jewish classmates. As one substitute teacher said, “We are raising a generation of anti-Semites.”

From the right: Joe’s ‘garbage’ disaster

President "Biden thought he would ‘help’ Harris by calling a progressive Latino group," marvels Ingrid Jacques from USA Todaybut then he said of Trump: “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters.” » “The White House and Democratic representatives in the media immediately tried to limit the damage”, without succeeding in convincing “everyone who saw Biden say these words”. Worse, it “part of a broader trend of Democrats insulting their political opponents and supporters, particularly in the run-up to the election.” At best, it is a reminder “that Biden – who will be president for nearly three more months – is not up to the job,” and thus “reminds the American people how Harris and other Democrats have deliberately induced misleading the country about Biden’s true condition. .”

— Compiled by the Post editorial board