The inability of America’s children to read proficiently is frightening. On the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) fourth-grade reading exam, 66% of students taking the exam failed to achieve at the proficient level. The results were even worse on the eighth grade reading exam, with 69% of students who took the test failed to demonstrate proficiency. Read the full article at the New York Post . . .

I remember September 11, 2001, though I was just a young child living through it. My dad, an airplane parts manufacturer, left for work early that morning while my mom was home with me and pregnant with my little sister. From our apartment in Montebello, California, more than 2,000 miles away from New York City, my family watched one of the darkest days in American history unfold. My mom remembers taking me to my grandmother’s ...

In 1996, California voters approved Proposition 209, which prohibited government, such as public universities, from discriminating or granting preferences based on race, sex, or ethnicity.  After its approval, the language of the proposition became part of the state constitution.   In 2020, an effort to overturn 209 was soundly defeated by voters. In 2023, SCOTUS found that the admissions procedures at Harvard and the University of North Carolina violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth ...