Corey DeAngelis
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 8 Jul
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We might as well fund the people as opposed to the buildings.
Yeah, can't get any worse, right? Yeah, well, maybe you... Whereas if you're taking them away from parents that are already doing a good job and you're kind of nudging them in that direction... they're going to be worse off.
That's the latest experiment, and it's peer-reviewed, published. Oh, that's really too bad. And the head starts that I've seen as far as the RCTs had the fade-outs. But one more thing that I think that I added that was really important to the conversation about school choice. I mean, one thing, it's not all me, right? It was COVID that helped open the eyes of parents.
I was just there with the right ideas laying around at the time, as Milton Friedman famously put it. Yeah, yeah. We were taking a bipartisan strategy for a long time to get school choice, and I'm sure you've heard this before where people say school choice is a civil rights issue of our time.
We still have elected officials saying these things using left-leaning arguments to advance school choice, which I think they're all good arguments. It's true that the lowest income are in the worst schools, that they would benefit the most. School choice is an equalizer. But there's also right-leaning arguments you make about choosing schools that align with your values.
The public schools are Marxist. We don't want gender ideology. We want schools that teach you that America is a great country, not a horrible country. And so you can make all these different types of arguments, but
When you go into a red state making blue state arguments, these lefty arguments, you might alienate some of the Republican legislators who might say, this isn't my issue, so I'm not going to lead on it. And then the Democrats, they're controlled by the teachers' unions anyway, so you're not going to make much ground with them
Regardless of the argument you're making, they respond to power, not logic. And then if you alienate the Republicans, we weren't really getting school choice passed in blue states or red states in a meaningful way. But now it's become more of a GOP litmus test issue. Voters have gone to the ballot box and held the Republicans accountable for being against school choice.
In Texas, my home state, we failed on school choice last year because we had 21 Republicans join all the Democrats in the House to kill school choice. And they came up with their arguments about how they were in rural areas and they didn't need to vote for this. But after the primaries, now 14 of them are gone. That was a political earthquake.
And now for the first time in Texas history, the House has 76 co-sponsors to pass a school choice bill. which has never happened, and you need 76 votes to pass a school choice vote.
Well, in Virginia, we had Mr. Terry, I don't think parents should be telling schools what they should teach, McAuliffe on the debate stage. He was the former governor of Virginia, and he said that at the final debate. He was up in the polls by a lot. It flipped right after that because parents were pissed. Virginia closed their schools just about more than any other state.
They were as bad as California when it came to reopening the schools in Virginia. And Glenn Youngkin turned that into an opportunity. He laid out a blueprint for success for Republicans going forward. And Glenn Youngkin ended up winning that election by six points with education voters.
And that was the number two issue in that election, which is a big deal because education is usually at the bottom. Voters, they rank jobs, the economy, crime at the top. Education was number two. And a Republican won on that issue in
You would think, but I think for a long time, people thought things were fine, right? Before they saw, I mean, if you're a high-income parent and you're sending your kid to the assigned public school, and it's consistently getting A ratings. Your kids coming home with A's on their report card, they get into great universities that are good on paper.
the more that we talk about and see that there's a lot of left-leaning bias in the schools that might attract more people to want to change other people's children's views in that direction to select. So it's almost like it's a reinforced it's, it's,
Yeah, we need alternative certification. So I think you're right that we have to have a multi-pronged approach. School choice isn't the silver bullet for everything. Neither is alternative certification. We should fight the battle on multiple fronts. And some people do set up this false dichotomy. They'll say, oh, you're saying school choice will cure everything. Well, not exactly.
We should also reform the public school system. You should still go to your school board and try to change things because a lot of kids are still going to go to the public schools, whether you have school choice or not. But we also need an escape valve. I mean, for example –
If you only try to change the system from the top down, which is what we've done partially in my home state of Texas, some good tweaks. They've banned critical race theory. They're talking about banning DEI in public schools this year as well. We have Trump with his executive orders helping out as well. But we have undercover video from a group called Accuracy in Media.
They've gone into all these public school districts in red states like my home state of Texas where they've gotten these administrators to admit on undercover video that they're still teaching things that are banned. Sure. Of course they are. And they're proud about it. They're like, yeah, we're still doing CRT, but we're just going to call it something else. How do you ban ideas?
Behind closed doors, they continue to do what they want.
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