Why U.S. Test Scores Are in a ‘Generation-Long Decline’ - The New York Times
An important article — share with your children
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Opinion | NATO%2C Please Help. Trump Has No Strategy for Iran. - The New York Times
Sarcasm is always the strength of Tom Friedman’s writing.
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California Wants More Babies, So It’s Giving Away 40 Million Diapers - WSJ
Gavin Newsom says some dopey things sometimes. You want to really make California more affordable for young families? Cut the taxes and over regulation.
“This is what affordability looks like,” Newsom said at a livestreamed press conference alongside other public officials, a pregnant woman, a doula and the heads of a celebrity-studded nonprofit chosen to procure the diapers. “It’s not a slogan. It’s a box. It’s a box of diapers.”
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Virginia Court Strikes Down Redistricted Voting Map in a Huge Blow to Democrats - The New York Times
In its 4-to-3 opinion%2C the Virginia Supreme Court wrote that Democratic legislators had violated the state’s constitution with their move to enact a new map meant to give their party 10 out of the state’s 11 U.S. House seats%2C up from the six it currently controls. Virginia voters had approved a constitutional amendment to allow for the map in a referendum.
The problem%2C the court’s majority suggested%2C was that the first vote on the amendment in the General Assembly%2C which would authorize Democrats to redraw the map%2C occurred days before last fall’s legislative elections — meaning that some Virginians who cast their ballots early did so without knowing how their state lawmakers would vote on the new map.
That%2C the justices wrote%2C violated the process laid out in the State Constitution.
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