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Victor Joecks

Victor Joecks

Victor Joecks’ column appears in the Opinion section each Sunday, Wednesday and Friday.
vjoecks@reviewjournal.com. Follow @victorjoecks on Twitter.

 
Irony of ESA defeat: Democrats vote to expand school choice

After long insisting that Education Savings Accounts were “vouchers,” a majority of Democrats in both houses of the Nevada Legislature voted to expand a program of private-school choice that resembles vouchers in many ways. And liberal special interests groups applauded them.

 
The risks of government-funded pre-K

A mega corporation is using skewed research to sell its product to gullible parents. The conglomerate claims to help kids, but its product actually has no effect — or a negative effect — on children’s cognitive skills and social behaviors.