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Kamala Harris must listen to Beyoncé or Jay-Z on school choice

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Kamala Harris must listen to Beyoncé or Jay-Z on school choice

Beyoncé is planning to donate millions of dollars to presidential candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris, who has already used her song “Freedom” in a splashy ad. But meanwhile, in the most important battleground state of the race, Pennsylvania, her husband Jay-Z is quietly supporting one of Democrats’ bête noires: school vouchers. It begs the question: where will Harris, the favored candidate of Beyoncé, stand on school choice for urban minority students?  Will Harris side with parents of color, who want more school choice, as President Barack Obama did, or will she double down on the union-friendly Biden administration’s opposition to expanding it? It won’t matter much to Jay-Z and Beyoncé, who can afford to send their children to private school, but few decisions may be more consequential for low-income families in this year’s election. Despite avoiding the issue to date, Harris’ vice-presidential pick of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signals that she may continue the Biden administration’s hostility to the issue. Walz, a former high school teacher, has not supported school choice reforms, despite their broad public support in Minnesota, and is a staunch ally of organized labor. LOUISIANA GOVERNOR DEFIANT AGAINST CRITICS OF TEN COMMANDMENTS BEING IN SCHOOL CLASSROOMSThis could spell trouble for the ticket. School choice strikes at the heart of a deep divide within the Democratic Party and one of its core constituencies, the Black community. According to Harvard University’s 2022 EdNext poll, a staggering 72% of Black Americans support private school vouchers, but just 41% of White Democrats do.   Meanwhile, much of the party establishment opposes school choice. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones blasted Jay-Z’s work in the City of Brotherly Love as a boon to private schools. And the NAACP and teachers unions have gone to great lengths to defeat school-choice proposals and slow the growth of charter schools.  The case of Mesha Mainor exemplifies the tension. Mainor, a Black Georgia legislator, defected to the Republican Party after being excoriated by her fellow Democrats for supporting a school choice bill. Hardly a conservative, Mainor once sponsored a bill to establish an annual Kamala Harris Day in the Peach State. But her experience of changing parties over school-choice issues underscores a growing frustration among minority communities with the post-Obama Democratic Party’s stance on education. Like Mainor, Black parents recognize that America already has a system of school choice — it’s just one that requires higher income. Families with sufficient means move to the suburbs, where high property taxes finance good public schools. Wealthy parents send their kids to private school. Both are forms of choice. Meanwhile, poor kids get stuck in poor-performing urban public schools.  Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gets it. She highlighted this hypocrisy during a recent fireside chat in California, asking bluntly, “Are you for school choice or not?” She went on to question how so many politicians can claim to champion civil rights while opposing measures that expand educational opportunity for poor children of color.  As she put it, “How can you say you’re for civil rights, how can you say you’re for the poor when you’re condemning those children to not be able to read [by keeping them in failing schools]? So, if you want to say that school choice and vouchers and charter schools are destroying the public schools, fine, you write that editorial in the Washington Post. But then don’t send your kids to Sidwell Friends,” she said, referring to a private school in Washington, D.C. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINIONWhile Obama took steps to support charter schools, and Biden’s administration actively suppressed them, Harris has largely sidestepped the issue. Her silence is becoming increasingly untenable as the 2024 election looms. To date, she has avoided taking a position on charters, vouchers, or other aspects of school choice. Little was asked about them in her California run for the U.S. Senate.  What’s more, Harris said almost nothing about them in her short-lived 2020 presidential campaign. And she avoided mentioning these topics altogether in her speech to the American Federation of Teachers’ convention. By picking a union-favored former teacher in Walz for VP, Harris now avoids the debate over school choice in Pennsylvania, a crucial swing state, where Governor Josh Shapiro and Jay-Z have both signaled strong support for expanding parental choice. If Harris opposes school choice, she risks alienating a significant portion of the minority electorate—perhaps creating more Mesha Mainor types. This could potentially boost Trump support among Black and Hispanic voters — which has been higher in the polls than many expected — and could derail her presidential ambitions. As the election approaches, Harris can’t evade this issue forever. Her stance on school choice could well be a deciding factor in her political future. She can either authentically represent Black families and their sincere priorities or pursue narrow political self-interest by continuing the Biden administration’s course of kowtowing to the teachers unions.  Daniel DiSalvo is a professor of political science at the City College of New York-CUNY and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE BY MICHAEL HARTNEY

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Lupita Nyong'o y los demonios internos de "Us": "Soy mi peor enemiga"

Los Ángeles, 21 mar (EFEUSA).- La sombra de los demonios internos, tanto individuales como colectivos, sobrevuela el terror político de "Us", una cinta protagonizada por Lupita Nyong'o y cuyo argumento empleó la actriz para explicar por qué cuando comienza un proyecto se deja llevar por el miedo y la incertidumbre. "Esta película va de cómo podemos ser nuestros peores enemigos. Y yo soy mi peor enemiga cada vez que trabajo en un proyecto. Siempre empiezo con la duda, siempre empiezo con el miedo. Siempre trabajo con algo que no he hecho antes", explicó la intérprete en un encuentro con los medios en el que participó Efe. "Así que hay un miedo a lo desconocido, sobre si voy a tener éxito o no con eso, y a las cosas que aún no sé sobre el personaje. Y en esta película tenía que descifrar dos personajes así que estaba impregnada de miedo, casi paralizada por eso, de hecho", añadió. Ganadora del Óscar a la mejor actriz de reparto por "12 Years a Slave (2013)", la keniana nacida en México encabeza ahora el reparto de "Us", la nueva propuesta del realizador Jordan Peele que se estrena este viernes y que es su primera película tras su aclamado debut en la dirección con "Get Out" (2017). De nuevo combinando el terror con la reflexión social y política, "Us" se centra en un matrimonio negro y sus dos hijos que ven interrumpidas sus vacaciones cuando aparecen en la puerta de su casa unas escalofriantes figuras: las de cuatro personas que parecen dobles de cada miembro de la familia. El declive del sueño americano, las miserias de la sociedad contemporánea, la represión y el rechazo al diferente, la psicosis colectiva y el espejismo del consumismo son algunos de los temas que aborda este largometraje por medio de los "doppelgänger", dobles perversos que difuminan los límites entre el bien y el mal. "Muchas buenas cosas pueden surgir de escuchar perspectivas que no solemos escuchar. Y de eso trata esta película: de la manera en que estamos ciegos a los monstruos que a veces ayudamos a construir", explicó Nyong'o. El juego con los "doppelgänger" permitió a Nyong'o jugar con dos personajes opuestos en apariencia pero conectados por vínculos esenciales. "Le estoy muy agradecida a Jordan porque realmente me dio un mapa para crear estos dos personajes y siempre tuvo la intención de que ambos fueran tridimensionales y de que nosotros tuviéramos una perspectiva equilibrada de ambos", apuntó. Tras la reflexión sobre el racismo de "Get Out", que convirtió a Peele en uno de los cineastas más comprometidos con la causa afroamericana del panorama contemporáneo, gran parte de Hollywood esperaba que continuara por ese camino. Sin embargo, y pese a que una familia negra lidera la acción de "Us", todo el equipo del filme se ha esforzado por matizar en la promoción que esta cinta apunta otros significados. "Es algo que no experimentamos muy a menudo", indicó la actriz sobre el hecho que haya una familia negra "en el centro de una película de terror". "Pero la raza no es el tema de la película. De hecho, es discretamente insustancial en esta historia. Pero ya solo eso es un comentario social: que a veces la norma pueda ser lo negro y que otra gente se pueda identificar con eso", apuntó. Rendida sin resistencia al talento de Peele ("es un visionario, es extremadamente inteligente", dijo), Nyong'o recordó divertida cómo Daniel Kaluuya, protagonista de "Get Out" y compañero de ella en "Black Panther" (2018), fue la pieza clave para que llegara a "Us". "Me dijo: 'Jordan querría conocerte. ¿Le puedo dar tu contacto?'. Y yo le dije como: '¿A qué estás esperando? Esa no es una pregunta. Hazlo inmediatamente'", señaló entre risas. Sin declararse una fan absoluta del cine de terror, Nyong'o contó que Peele le puso "deberes" para "Us" y, para inspirarse, tuvo que ver cintas como "Let the Right One In" (2008), "The Birds" (1963), "Funny Games" (1997), "A Tale of Two Sisters" (2003) o "Annihilation" (2018). Pero sí valoró especialmente que este género tenga algo "terapéutico" y que permita a la gente poder "ir a lugares oscuros" de sí mismos y exorcizar sus demonios. "Creo que es por eso por lo que nos gustan las películas de terror. Todos llegamos a un acuerdo por el que entramos en esa sala oscura para ser asustados, para ver algunas cosas repugnantes, y de alguna manera vamos a estar todos bien porque saldremos y estaremos libres de pecado", dijo. Fotograma cedido por Universal Pictures que muestra a la actriz Lupita Nyong'o en el papel de Adelaide Wilson, durante una escena de la película de terror "Us", la nueva propuesta del realizador Jordan Peele que se estrena este viernes. EFE/Claudette Barius/Universal Pictures/SOLO USO EDITORIAL

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Kamala Harris must listen to Beyoncé or Jay-Z on school choice

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Kamala Harris must listen to Beyoncé or Jay-Z on school choice

Beyoncé is planning to donate millions of dollars to presidential candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris, who has already used her song “Freedom” in a splashy ad. But meanwhile, in the most important battleground state of the race, Pennsylvania, her husband Jay-Z is quietly supporting one of Democrats’ bête noires: school vouchers. It begs the question: where will Harris, the favored candidate of Beyoncé, stand on school choice for urban minority students?  Will Harris side with parents of color, who want more school choice, as President Barack Obama did, or will she double down on the union-friendly Biden administration’s opposition to expanding it? It won’t matter much to Jay-Z and Beyoncé, who can afford to send their children to private school, but few decisions may be more consequential for low-income families in this year’s election. Despite avoiding the issue to date, Harris’ vice-presidential pick of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signals that she may continue the Biden administration’s hostility to the issue. Walz, a former high school teacher, has not supported school choice reforms, despite their broad public support in Minnesota, and is a staunch ally of organized labor. LOUISIANA GOVERNOR DEFIANT AGAINST CRITICS OF TEN COMMANDMENTS BEING IN SCHOOL CLASSROOMSThis could spell trouble for the ticket. School choice strikes at the heart of a deep divide within the Democratic Party and one of its core constituencies, the Black community. According to Harvard University’s 2022 EdNext poll, a staggering 72% of Black Americans support private school vouchers, but just 41% of White Democrats do.   Meanwhile, much of the party establishment opposes school choice. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones blasted Jay-Z’s work in the City of Brotherly Love as a boon to private schools. And the NAACP and teachers unions have gone to great lengths to defeat school-choice proposals and slow the growth of charter schools.  The case of Mesha Mainor exemplifies the tension. Mainor, a Black Georgia legislator, defected to the Republican Party after being excoriated by her fellow Democrats for supporting a school choice bill. Hardly a conservative, Mainor once sponsored a bill to establish an annual Kamala Harris Day in the Peach State. But her experience of changing parties over school-choice issues underscores a growing frustration among minority communities with the post-Obama Democratic Party’s stance on education. Like Mainor, Black parents recognize that America already has a system of school choice — it’s just one that requires higher income. Families with sufficient means move to the suburbs, where high property taxes finance good public schools. Wealthy parents send their kids to private school. Both are forms of choice. Meanwhile, poor kids get stuck in poor-performing urban public schools.  Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gets it. She highlighted this hypocrisy during a recent fireside chat in California, asking bluntly, “Are you for school choice or not?” She went on to question how so many politicians can claim to champion civil rights while opposing measures that expand educational opportunity for poor children of color.  As she put it, “How can you say you’re for civil rights, how can you say you’re for the poor when you’re condemning those children to not be able to read [by keeping them in failing schools]? So, if you want to say that school choice and vouchers and charter schools are destroying the public schools, fine, you write that editorial in the Washington Post. But then don’t send your kids to Sidwell Friends,” she said, referring to a private school in Washington, D.C. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINIONWhile Obama took steps to support charter schools, and Biden’s administration actively suppressed them, Harris has largely sidestepped the issue. Her silence is becoming increasingly untenable as the 2024 election looms. To date, she has avoided taking a position on charters, vouchers, or other aspects of school choice. Little was asked about them in her California run for the U.S. Senate.  What’s more, Harris said almost nothing about them in her short-lived 2020 presidential campaign. And she avoided mentioning these topics altogether in her speech to the American Federation of Teachers’ convention. By picking a union-favored former teacher in Walz for VP, Harris now avoids the debate over school choice in Pennsylvania, a crucial swing state, where Governor Josh Shapiro and Jay-Z have both signaled strong support for expanding parental choice. If Harris opposes school choice, she risks alienating a significant portion of the minority electorate—perhaps creating more Mesha Mainor types. This could potentially boost Trump support among Black and Hispanic voters — which has been higher in the polls than many expected — and could derail her presidential ambitions. As the election approaches, Harris can’t evade this issue forever. Her stance on school choice could well be a deciding factor in her political future. She can either authentically represent Black families and their sincere priorities or pursue narrow political self-interest by continuing the Biden administration’s course of kowtowing to the teachers unions.  Daniel DiSalvo is a professor of political science at the City College of New York-CUNY and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE BY MICHAEL HARTNEY

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Article: Government watchdog sues Trump, Kushner and WH to prevent records being destroyed

Government watchdog sues Trump, Kushner and WH to prevent records being destroyed

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Cowboys wide receiver Williams issues statement after arrest

Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Terrance Williams released a statement on Saturday evening giving his account of the events that led to his arrest earlier that day. Williams was arrested near his home before dawn in Frisco, Texas and charged with public intoxication -- a Class C misdemeanor in Texas -- after police found his car wrecked at an intersection near the Cowboys' training complex. Per a Frisco Police Department press release, around 4:45 a.m., police responded to a crash in the area of Frisco Green Avenue and Lebanon Road where they found a 2017 blue Lamborghini that had struck a light pole. Read more