Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Day 94
4 documented wins
Common-sense school discipline
The win
Federal pressure to weaken school discipline in the name of racial statistics was reversed. Schools may remove violent students without a Washington scolding.
For Americans
The kid who wants to learn is the one this protects. Teachers stop being told that suspending a fighter is a civil-rights incident.
Foreign influence at universities
The win
Universities were put on a tighter clock to disclose foreign money, especially from adversary states buying research and campus influence.
For Americans
Parents writing tuition checks deserve to know if a lab is also on a foreign payroll. Sunshine is the cheapest national-security tool on campus.
HBCU excellence order
The win
An executive order re-stood the White House Initiative to Promote Excellence and Innovation at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, including faith-based campuses that had been boxed out of some federal capital money.
For Americans
A student at Howard or Morehouse should not live on a one-year appropriations dare. Putting HBCUs back on the order stack is how a lab and a dorm actually get built.
Skilled-trade pipeline
The win
An order pushed federal programs toward apprenticeships and high-paying trades instead of one-size-fits-all college counseling.
For Americans
A 19-year-old who would rather weld than write a thesis gets a government that treats that as a plan, not a failure. Trades are how a lot of households actually join the middle class.