Neal McCluskey
@NealMcCluskey
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Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute. Views are my own. Substack: "Undercooked Thoughts": https://t.co/Ifn5rVWcVI
Northern VA
Joined June 2011
Understand the full sweep of American school choice history: Get your copy of Fighting for the Freedom to Learn: Examining the Nation’s Centuries-Old School Choice Movement today! https://t.co/x8p85bZyAu
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In a major turnaround, it's apparently not dying. Except it is.
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College sports shouldn't be a federal concern. Why would we presume what they would impose would be better than what's evolved over more than a century? All they should do is get out of the way.
Roy: The SEC, BIG 10, ACC… they’re pushing this hard. What we just saw unfold with Lane Kiffin is an absolute abomination. People say: Well, this is the market working. This is not supposed to be a market… If we’re going to intervene, maybe we should fully intervene. Maybe
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The answer, so far, is an emphatic "yes." And that's not just from the survey. @X needs fixing.
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School choice NOW.
🚨 DAY 59: Teacher Lucy Martinez, Nathan Hale Elementary, STILL EMPLOYED. Celebrated and mimicked the killing of Charlie Kirk, screeching "BANG, BANG!" in front of children. Where is our Department of Education? Are we going to crush domestic terrorism or just observe it?
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School choice NOW.
🚨 DAY 59: Teacher Lucy Martinez, Nathan Hale Elementary, STILL EMPLOYED. Celebrated and mimicked the killing of Charlie Kirk, screeching "BANG, BANG!" in front of children. Where is our Department of Education? Are we going to crush domestic terrorism or just observe it?
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Today’s the day! Now shipping or purchase for kindle: https://t.co/t2QNjTMhSH What’s inside? Let me tell you…1/8
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If you don’t like the idea of a boy who says he is a girl using the girls’ bathroom, are you out of step with the mainstream? If diversity, equity, and inclusion programs strike you as discriminato...
IT’S HERE: The Polarization Myth: America’s Surprising Consensus on Race, Schools, and Sex (Encounter Books, Dec. 2, 2025). When headlines scream of division, here is a refreshing perspective: Americans are more united than you think. Order here: https://t.co/ne7gbQuh31
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The answer, so far, is an emphatic "yes." And that's not just from the survey. @X needs fixing.
Is this platform dying?
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College sports shouldn't be a federal concern. Why would we presume what they would impose would be better than what's evolved over more than a century? All they should do is get out of the way.
Roy: The SEC, BIG 10, ACC… they’re pushing this hard. What we just saw unfold with Lane Kiffin is an absolute abomination. People say: Well, this is the market working. This is not supposed to be a market… If we’re going to intervene, maybe we should fully intervene. Maybe
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But it feels so caring... Anyway, source: https://t.co/kCagAIRy9u
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Fifty-four percent of Americans, down from 60% in 2021, have a positive opinion of capitalism, while a steady 39% view socialism positively.
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School choice is not a recent or radical idea but a consistent thread in the American story. For educators, policymakers, historians, and parents, the new book “Fighting for the Freedom to Learn” shows that educational freedom, like liberty itself, is a founding principle.
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A good reminder in a 1976 @nytimes article of what the NEA was about when it endorsed Jimmy Carter: A US Department of Education, but also national health care and a lot more federal $:
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