Julia Crusius

Not a hill I'm prepared to die on, but legacy preferences don't bother me, assuming the student meets entrance criteria. Multi-generation relationships with institutions strike me as something to celebrate, not regulate.

@Mariah_Selene @chiproytx “Much of the success achieved so far rests on executive authorities that a future administration could choose to weaken, reinterpret, or reverse with the stroke of a pen.” ‼️

Americans should not mistake progress for permanence. Spain is a reminder that no nation is immune from weak policies. @chiproytx's Permanent Trump Secure Border Act would codify many of the enforcement authorities currently being implemented through executive action. thecannononline.com/spains-crisis-…

@Dale_Chu @educationgadfly @MichaelPetrilli “Other measures can inform school improvement, but not everything belongs inside an accountability formula.” 🙌

No Child Left Behind has been gone for more than a decade. So why are we still arguing about it? Because we may have drawn the wrong conclusions. In my latest for @educationgadfly, I explain three lessons NCLB still has to teach us.

For what it’s worth I’m opposed to making the citizenship test a high school graduation requirement. It should be a graduation requirement for *elementary* school. Yes, I’m serious.

People don't like to hear this, but the issue starts at home American schools don't serve this (in part) because American kids won't eat this, and we are tied down by the pickiest eaters

Great essay by @ua_edreform alum @annaegalite quotes a public school superintendent: "The only viable response (to #schoolchoice competition) is to become “more accommodating, more receptive and more accessible to parents and students.”" educationnext.org/parental-choic…

I tuned into Joe Rogan yesterday and heard Bernie Sanders' economics, Barack Obama's foreign policy, and Ro Khanna's conspiracy theories. And then I realized JD Vance was talking. I want a candidate in 2028 who doesn't mirror the Democrats -- and who can win. Mr. VP, this is not the way. youtube.com/watch?v=8QcbPC…

@emmma_camp_ @WSJFreeEx Is it true that modern refrigerators do not last as long?

What can a vintage refrigerator tell us about capitalism? Quite a lot, actually! Find out more in my latest for @WSJFreeEx

Never give up, never surrender. @TPPF @LitigateLiberty brought the @yct v.@UNTsocial case to the 5th Cir. 3+ years ago. While our effort was not successful then, the panel's opinion established the basis for this correct outcome.

Example of why the Founding Fathers rejected a government-by-plebiscite in favor of a republic in which representatives are supposed to “refine and enlarge” the public’s views.

Apparently hospitals are capable of posting their pricing for procedures. #txlege #patientsfirst

Texas lawmakers are right to ask why health care keeps getting more expensive. Texas Speaker @Burrows4TX created the House Select Committee on Health Care Affordability⁠ this year, and lawmakers have already heard testimony that health costs are consuming more of family budgets. Chairman @RepJamesFrank said the goal should be to address root causes instead of playing “whack-a-mole with the symptoms.”⁠ That is right. The wrong answer is for Texas to copy Tennessee and Arkansas by forcing private health care companies to unwind longstanding business arrangements. Here’s why in my latest commentary: thecentersquare.com/opinion/articl… @GregAbbott_TX @DanPatrick

Compare Calvin Coolidge on America’s 150th anniversary: “It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers."

You are appealing to a neutral playing field that has never existed anywhere on the face of the earth at any point in the entire history of human civilization. Wokeism is already taught in almost every public school in the country, and Islam is already taught across the Middle East. Has it ever once occurred to Woke educators that they also need to teach conservative values just to be fair? Or to the Islamic teachers in the Middle East that they might also need to teach Christianity alongside Islam because "once the door is open", other worldviews have to be accommodated as well? Of course not. There's no mandate for pluralism or equal time engraved anywhere in the hearts and minds of any educator, and there's never been a "value-free" education either. Every act of instruction carries with it a particular worldview, and that particular worldview is the basis for all theological belief systems, whether they want to call themselves a religion or not. And the fact that some on the Right have decided to dispense with this fiction that you can have an education system without actually instructing people in anything doesn't "open the door" to giving other ideologies equal instruction time. You can literally just say, "No, we will not teach Wokeism or Islam because they are political theologies that are antithetical to our own." I know this is a shock to many conservatives, but you can, in fact, take your own side without ever having to grant any concessions to people who hate you.

@ReviewsPossum To be clear, communism is also really bad in theory

I don't care what communism is in theory because I know what it is in practice.

Here we go again... what would you tell this mom who's concerned about a large discrepancy between her child's classroom grades and standardized test scores?

@buggirl Unlike bananas, money doesn’t grow on trees

in nature if a monkey hoarded 1 trillion bananas the other monkeys would beat that monkey to death and take his bananas

History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet. Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years. And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor. You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.

They’re using the guy beheading your brother in the street to distract you from your real enemy: Jeff Bezos delivering medicine to your front door overnight