Jana Gregg

Wife-Mother
Ornery much of the time

[John Goetz @GoetzItSold]

@DLabaree Anyways here's a graph showing how HS grads are going to drop 20% here

The 'schools just need more funding' crowd will be hit hardest by this reality

[Brian Jodice @afcpress]

School choice changes lives!

Alyssa Sosa-Molina: An Education Freedom Account changed my life (via @UnionLeader)

"Everything changed when I received access to an EFA through the Children’s Scholarship Fund, which made it possible for me to attend a private school. The impact was immediate. In a more supportive and engaging environment, I was able to challenge myself academically and grow in ways I had not experienced before."

More: https://t.co/p1d4yE7luo

[Shaka Mitchell @shakamitchell]

Connecticut families could have another option for their children's education.

The new federal Education Freedom Tax Credit could make scholarships available to an estimated 494,099 students in Connecticut—87.9% of the state's K–12 population.

But Connecticut has not opted in.

Eligibility is widespread, and the opportunity is knocking but @GovNedLamont needs to open the door.

@parthurgraff

[Shaka Mitchell @shakamitchell]

Despite the growing techlash, AI and information technology are creating entirely new opportunities. Are we will to prepare students for this future?

@RepWittke on the opportunity—and the challenge—of getting education and higher ed ready for what's coming.

[Finn Turner @FiinnTurner]

One week since Good Good died… let’s look back at golf’s greatest commercial:

[Kennedy @KennedyNation]

What does he have against the Bobcats?!

[Emily Zanotti 🦝 @emzanotti]

The funny part is that this is somehow dumber than the Lake America thing.

What is even happening 😂🫠

[Tommy Schultz 🇺🇸 @Tommy_USA]

Just basic facts and transparency always prove the teachers union talking points wrong.

This is why we @SchoolChoiceNow always advocate to have these facts tracked and published as part of any school choice law.

@WSJopinion @txcomptroller @WithOdyssey_

[Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz]

A Chinese bot farm of 200,000 accounts has been operating on 𝕏 (and likely other major social media platforms) to drum up opposition to data centers.

China has run influence operations in the U.S. for years to sow disagreement about strategically important industries: https://t.co/lLQXTUfWbM

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.

She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.

The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.

She handed out the checks herself.

In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.

When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.

You've probably heard that part.

Here's the part you haven't:

The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.

Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.

She built her county an entire hospital.

She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.

In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.

Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.

In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.

And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.

She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.

She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.

Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸

[Shaka Mitchell @shakamitchell]

Washington state has an opportunity to give families more education options.

An estimated 1.2 million #Washington students—93.1% of the state's K–12 students—could be eligible for scholarships through the federal Education Freedom Tax Credit.

But Washington hasn't opted in yet.

The students may be eligible. The state still has to make the opportunity available.

@GovBobFerguson @parthurgraff

[Shaka Mitchell @shakamitchell]

No two kids are exactly alike.

So why do we assume one education system can meet the needs of roughly 55 million students?

The question we should be asking is:

How do we make education work for our kids—not force our kids to fit the system?

More on this in my conversation with @SutherlandInst’s Defending Ideas Podcast. @schoolchoicenow

[Mike Beauvais @MikeBeauvais]

An aspirant to the British throne returns to England after years of exile.

Russia is engaged in a war of conquest on the continent.

Food-borne illness ravages the New World.

It’s 1660 again, baby!

[Shaka Mitchell @shakamitchell]

If only about 4 in 10 American students are performing at grade level, we have a problem and it’s bigger than test scores.

Academic readiness affects everything from college and careers to our military's readiness.

We cannot accept this as the status quo.

Check out my conversation with @SutherlandInst’s Defending Ideas Podcast.

[Shaka Mitchell @shakamitchell]

Arizona has a choice to make.

An estimated 1.1 million #Arizona students could be eligible for Education Freedom Tax Credit scholarships.

That's 89.2% of Arizona's K–12 students.

But Arizona hasn't opted in yet.

Millions of students nationwide could benefit from the EFTC. Arizona families should have the opportunity, too.

@GovernorHobbs @PArthurGraff @GoldwaterInst @schoolchoicenow

[Simon Holland @simoncholland]

Welcome back to school, here’s a cold.

[Shaka Mitchell @shakamitchell]

More spending hasn’t produced the academic results families deserve.

And it hasn’t necessarily created stronger partnerships between schools and families, either.

So what if the answer is to give families more control over the resources—and the educational decisions—that shape their children’s futures?

Listen to the full conversation on the @SutherlandInst Defending Ideas Podcast.

[Melannie Jay @airbudhc]

There are 50 people in the PreCheck line but 15 in the regular line. However — and this is what we must remember — each one of those 15 people is experiencing their first day on earth

[Brian Jodice @afcpress]

“It is the most historic expansion of school choice in American history,” said Ashling Preston, director of federal affairs at the American Federation of Children (@SchoolChoiceNow). “It has the opportunity to be a game changer.”

https://t.co/bEo1f7jlJs

[Shaka Mitchell @shakamitchell]

Michigan: millions of students could be eligible for something new.

The federal Education Freedom Tax Credit could make scholarships available to an estimated 1.5 million Michigan students—93.4% of the state's K–12 population.

But Michigan has not yet opted in.

For those students, eligibility isn't enough. Their state has to act.

It's your move @GovWhitmer @MackinacCenter