Adventures in Babysitting! Recently AZ’s school district industrial lobbying complex went to their fainting couches when an official made a mistaken and since withdrawn reference to “babysitting” in the ESA program/1

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Reflections from VELA Con 2025 mattfrendewey.substack.com/p/from-mission…

The corruption in Lansing is real.

He jumped into hell with only a knife and an aid bag.🧵🇺🇸 On May 2, 1968, then-Staff Sgt. Roy Benavidez heard a 12-man Special Forces team was trapped in the jungle, outnumbered 100-to-1. He fought relentlessly for six hours, losing so much blood in the process, medics thought

Good time to re-up this piece from Craig Hulse "Through ESAs, school districts are opening courses, sports, career training and more to homeschoolers & other families" the74million.org/article/in-flo…

It's not states' job to "set an example for Washington" in an area in which the feds have no constitutional authority to meddle. Saying something is "in the national interest" doesn't change that. Don't like your state's ed policy? Take it up there. the74million.org/article/colora…

There’s nothing quite like sitting in a room full of builders and founders—people who aren’t just talking about changing education—they’re doing it. That’s VELA Con. Some reflections from this inspiring conference. #VELACon25 VELA mattfrendewey.substack.com/p/from-mission…

“Profit tells us where we can make the best contribution. By pursuing profit, we are as altruistic as we can possibly be.” — Friedrich Hayek

The Associated Press chose not to highlight the suffering of hostages like Evyatar David—who is deliberately being starved and forced to dig his own grave—but instead to focus on the “struggles” of Hezbollah, a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization that has fired over

America’s going back to school – and in most of America, it looks like it did decades ago. But not in Florida. Thanks to #schoolchoice & #edchoice, here’s a baker’s dozen ways that back-to-school in Florida is different. · More than 50% of students attend something other than

Anyone who has lived in DC for more than 10 years and is honest knows this city has gone from nice, clean, and mostly safe to gross, dirty, and scary in the last five years. The state of Union Station alone is a testament to this.

As you continue your #Rentgate distraction tour, today I am calling on you, Zohran Kwame Mamdani to release the lease. “I worked until January, and then I took time away from my job, and one of the major reasons I could do so was because I knew that if I ran out of savings, my family

The judge's opinion in our case is disappointing. She claims that NJ parents do not have a "possessory interest" in a minor's blood and skips the fact that newborn blood is still kept - and used - without parental consent.

Today is the official publication date of my new book, Joyful Learning PublicAffairs! It's intended for families & founders seeking & building creative schooling options. Get your copy wherever books are sold, or listen to the audiobook-which I narrate! amazon.com/gp/product/154…

Wonderful evening, celebrating Kerry McDonald new book Joyful Learning. Great hearing from two education entrepreneurs featured in the book, Mercedes Grant and Kim Kent. amazon.com/Joyful-Learnin…

RIP Rev Matthews nextstepsblog.org/2025/08/rev-h-…