School Choice and Special Education
What to know: Special education students can benefit from a greater array of options for their parents to choose.
The TPPF take: Every child should have access to the education that best meets their unique learning styles.
“Like all children, students with disabilities deserve the opportunity to flourish. But in a nation where education has been designed around the ‘average’ student—rather than tailored to individuals—that hasn’t been happening,” says Tiffany Barfield, Government Affairs Director for yes. every kid, writing for The Cannon Online. “Perpetuating this one-size-fits-all approach, as some suggest, won’t help.”
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Save Our Children
What to know: The Institute for Family Studies says it’s time to treat Big Tech like Big Tobacco, noting that “anxiety, depression and teen suicide have surged, especially among girls, since the mass adoption of smartphones around 2010.”
The TPPF take: There are countless tragic stories about the destructive harms of social media.
“Texas should be the national leader on the issue of child online safety by taking the bold step of prohibiting social media use by minors,” says TPPF’s Zach Whiting. “States place age restrictions on numerous behaviors, such as driving, voting, smoking, drinking, and entering into a valid contract, among other things. This proposal would recognize social media as a prohibited harm to minors.”
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Running Out of Room
What to know: Seattle’s fentanyl overdose crisis is so bad that the King County Medical Examiner is running out of space to store dead bodies.The TPPF take: President Biden’s border policies are fueling the fentanyl crisis.
“When large groups of people illegally cross the border at once, Border Patrol agents are forced to send all of their resources to one area, freeing up other areas for cartels to send through drugs, weapons, and criminal illegal immigrants,” says TPPF’s Selene Rodriguez. “Neither the fentanyl crisis nor the border crisis are new. But both are worsened under the disastrous policies of the Biden administration.
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