Neal McCluskey

In case you want to bone up as the Department of Education faces the axe: Feds in the Classroom: How Big Government Corrupts, Cripples, and Compromises American Education amazon.com/Feds-Classroom…

Positive Tomorrows is a unique school in Oklahoma that educates students experiencing homelessness while helping their families gain income & housing stability. Learn more, incl how OK's school choice programs help, in last week's @CatoCEF Friday Feature. cato.org/blog/friday-fe…

While private choice enrollment doubled from 600k to 1.2M in the past few years, that's definitely only a small part of the overall shift

Cato Cage Match: Education vs. Health Care cato.org/multimedia/cat… via @CatoInstitute Who has the toughter libertarian job, me or @mfcannon?

Better news for higher ed than I would have expected, continuing bad news for the media.

Taken together, it looks from these charts like Americans are pretty friendly to immigration, though less so when the question gets a bit more concrete.

Strong evidence suggesting enrollment losses in public schools are due to more than private choice programs. Massachusetts doesn't have such a program, but since COVID private enrollment has risen more than pre-COVID trends while public enrollment has dropped.

I have a new piece in @MindingCampus responding to recent liberal critiques of the higher ed parts of the reconciliation bill mindingthecampus.org/2025/07/21/the…

It'll be nice to see pleas for taxpayer $ like this no longer funded by taxpayer $.

most college-going is local and non-elite, and people like colleges with good football teams

Trump is right to oppose the DC stadium deal. Not because the team changed its name from the Redskins—which it had every right to do. But because taxpayers shouldn’t be footing the bill for a billionaire’s football stadium. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

The demise of bipartisan spending bills is much less handing power to the president than giving POTUS broad "emergency" spending or regulatory power. If Congress is deciding on spending, whether bipartisan or not, that is how things should work. nbcnews.com/politics/congr…

Whether biased or not, the federal government should never have funded television and radio networks. The bias merely illustrates why: The danger of favoring one worldview over others with $ taken from everyone is much too great.

Friday Feature: Positive Tomorrows cato.org/blog/friday-fe… via @CatoInstitute

"Any one of these changes would have been reason to celebrate. But, at the risk of sounding ungrateful, more should be done to fix student loans." Congress Should Do More to Unwind the Government’s Student Loan Boondoggle nationalreview.com/2025/07/congre…