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The Mountain States Policy Center: Teaching Liberty Through Competition
On May 2, 2026, teams from Idaho, Montana, Washington, and Wyoming came together at the Idaho State Capitol to battle for the “We the Students: Mountain West Civics Cup.” The event was a regional high school competition aimed at engaging students in the study of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. Mountain States Policy Center staged the event with the help of a $50,000 grant from… -
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GOP Lawmakers Move to Scrap Federal Rule Critics Say Unfairly Targets Career Schools
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Rep. Mark Harris, R-N.C., is set to introduce a bill to repeal a federal rule skewing higher education funding. Currently, career and technical schools are being singled out while traditional public and nonprofit colleges and universities are exempt. “Washington should not pick winners and losers in higher education,” Harris told the… -
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Ultimate Civics Showdown: Trump Meets Homeschooled Winner of Presidential 1776 Award Competition at the Oval Office
President Donald Trump met with the three top scorers for the Presidential 1776 Award competition Wednesday in the Oval Office and gave them each a Presidential Challenge Coin. According to a U.S. Department of Education press release, the “Ultimate Civics Showdown” is a “nationwide civics challenge created to celebrate America’s top high school students and their knowledge of our nation’s founding… -
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Bringing 1776 to Life: Harlan Institute Recognized for Revolutionary Civic Education Program
Imagine debating whether the American Colonies should break free from England as the Founding Fathers did in the shadow of the actual Declaration of Independence. Some high schoolers didn’t have to imagine, thanks to a grant from The Heritage Foundation. The Harlan Institute was awarded an America’s 250th Innovation Prize, a program supporting creative projects that educate Americans about the nation’s founding principles, strengthen civic… -
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Don’t Buy Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Sleight of Hand on Women’s Sports
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson tried to pull a fast one on the American people Tuesday. The court upheld West Virginia’s law preventing men from competing in women’s sports, finding that the law does not constitute discrimination on the basis of sex in violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The… -
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Supreme Court Takes Up Case Challenging Laws That Treat ‘Non-Affirming Parents’ as Child Abusers
Can Washington state remove parental rights to enable runaway kids to access experimental transgender medical “treatments” without their parents’ knowledge or consent? The Supreme Court announced Monday that it would take up a case on this pivotal issue. In the case, a group of parents represented by International Partners for Ethical Care is challenging the… -
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Oregon Has Civil Rights Problems in Education. This Congresswoman Is Trying to Distract Voters.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon is downsizing an ineffective government bureaucracy, so, naturally, progressive lawmakers are howling. The latest theatrics come from Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore., who introduced articles of impeachment against McMahon last week. Bonamici’s attempt is baseless—McMahon has continued to fulfill the law while downsizing the U.S. Department of Education—which raises the question of… -
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A Meritocracy, if You Can Keep It
The structure of a nation’s economy touches each citizen. It influences how citizens make life-altering decisions, from college commitments to career choices. In America, our economic order has long been undergirded by the assumption of meritocracy. Meritocracy is a simple concept: Those who work hard and excel will be rewarded, and the fruits of one’s… -
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One Small Step for School Choice
When the One Big Beautiful Bill Act came up for a vote on the Senate floor on July 1 of last year, 50 senators voted for it, and 50 senators voted against it. Vice President JD Vance had to cast the tie-breaking vote in that chamber—so the bill could go back to the House for… -
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Heritage Foundation Awards $1M in Prizes to Nonprofits
The Heritage Foundation on Thursday announced the recipients of its annual “Innovation Prizes,” a program that awards $1 million in prizes to nonprofit organizations for their work to strengthen society. This is the sixth year that Heritage has given the awards to organizations that put conservative principles into action. Recipients of this year’s prizes include… -
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GOP Reps Want Prosecution and Funding Cuts for Students for Justice in Palestine
Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Colorado Boulder is facing calls from Republican members of Congress to be dismantled after it championed an arsonist who was convicted of killing an 82-year-old Jewish woman in Boulder last year. According to The Jerusalem Post, the student group recently posted its support online for Mohamed… -
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I Ran Arizona’s ESA Program. Here’s What the Critics Won’t Tell You.
I ran Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Account Program as its executive director, and I am here to tell you that the public conversation about this program is missing something critical: the truth about how it actually works. You have heard the claims of school choice opponents: fraud, waste, lack of accountability. What you have not heard… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Pakistani Student Visa Holders Spark Legislative Action, National Security Concerns
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Indiana state Rep. Andrew Ireland is filing legislation in the 2027 legislative session to stop Indiana’s public universities from hiring Pakistani and other foreign students to fill American jobs. Apart from addressing the hiring practices of public universities, Ireland’s legislation would also penalize noncompliant institutions by cutting their taxpayer grants. “IU… -
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Ohio Family Group Celebrates Ruling on Social Media Age Verification Law
The Center for Christian Virtue is celebrating last week’s decision by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that allows an Ohio law on age verification and parental consent for those under 16 using social media to go into effect. Ohio’s Parental Notification by Social Media Operators Act, signed into law in 2023, was supposed… -
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Education Department Announces New Measure to Encourage Student Loan Repayment
America doesn’t just have a student debt problem—it has an accountability problem. If policymakers want an affordable higher education system, they must stop cycles of debt accumulation and forgiveness and require students to pay back the money they borrowed. Last week, the Department of Education announced a temporary 1% student loan interest rate reduction for… -
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The Trans Flag Flies Over the Teachers Union
Teachers unions continue to embrace woke gender ideology and force it on young children. When a transgender flag flies over a building, make no mistake: That building has been conquered by left-wing extremists. Today, a rainbow flag flies over the building of the nation’s largest teacher union, the National Education Association, in Washington, D.C. The union is publicly declaring its dedication to gender ideology over and above… -
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For the Love of DEI, Virginia Democrats Inject Race Into Tourism
The Virginia House of Delegates just released its final draft of the 2026 budget. Buried in a civil war on data centers, lifting marijuana restrictions, and giving themselves a 150% pay raise, Democrats are also seeking to spend millions on DEI tourism. Virginia legislators are busy working out the 2026 budget. After months of back… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: Why America’s Universities Are Falling Apart
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. There’s been a lot of news lately about the university’s higher education crisis, and universities are now competing for students… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: America Is Suffering From Tribal Fatigue
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. I think after 60 years of affirmative action, DEI, racial essentialism, and racial fixation—especially in the United States, but… -
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Gov. Shapiro Abandoning 30,000 Children as PA Democrats Push to Strip School Choice
Pennsylvania Democrats rushed anti-school choice legislation Tuesday, bypassing regular order and sneaking up on Republicans. They aim to strip 30,000 children of educational scholarships, pocket the children’s scholarship money, and cut public charter school funding by $500 million. Democrat Gov. Josh Shapiro was elected in part because of his promise to return educational choice to…