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Jonathan Butcher
@JM_Butcher
@Heritage; author: The Polarization Myth; Splintered; snr fellow Goldwater Institute, Beacon Center. Tweets are my own.
Washington, DC
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    Jonathan Butcher
    @JM_Butcher
    Sep 4, 2025
    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: a.co/d/5mXWXCN
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    Jonathan Butcher
    @JM_Butcher
    Aug 1, 2024
    Replying to @sfmcguire79
    Shame on those who let this happen.
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    Jonathan Butcher
    @JM_Butcher
    Jul 16, 2024
    Microsoft cuts DEI team, no longer “business critical.” Of course not, DEI is both racially discriminatory & the training doesn’t change attitudes nor behavior. There’s more…🧵1/3
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    Jonathan Butcher
    @JM_Butcher
    Oct 5, 2022
    Awful: “In Decatur, 2% of black third-graders are reading at grade level and only 1% are doing math at grade level,” meanwhile, “The Chicago Teachers Union has walked out four times in the last seven years (2016, 2019, 2021, 2022), reaping higher salaries or benefits each time.”
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    Colleen Dippel
    @ColleenDippel
    Oct 5, 2022
    Illinois’s Shocking Report Card - WSJ “This year 100% of Chicago teachers were evaluated as excellent or proficient. The students are failing but the teachers are great? That contradiction shows the system is corrupt as well as incompetent.” wsj.com/articles/illin…
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    Jonathan Butcher
    @JM_Butcher
    Jun 14, 2023
    Pearson, the world’s largest educational publisher, said it will include the ideology of critical race theory in everything it produces. And now guess who has a contract with the federal government?...
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    Jonathan Butcher
    @JM_Butcher
    Nov 25, 2020
    The GOP Legislature in Ohio passed a major expansion of private-school vouchers that will extend school choice to half of all students. wsj.com/articles/a-buc…
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    Jonathan Butcher
    @JM_Butcher
    Jun 10, 2024
    Just shut it down. Step by step guide to closing the Dept of Ed: heritage.org/education/repo…. ED “was not, and is not, a child of carefully reasoned policy or pressing national need. It was the product of politics & is an instrument of interest group political power.” @lindseymburke
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    Libs of TikTok
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    Jun 10, 2024
    The US Dept of Education is now flying the progress pirde flag in front of their building. Our entire education system has been captured. SHUT THE WHOLE PLACE DOWN UNTIL WE CAN FIGURE OUT WTH IS GOING ON x.com/JoeyMannarinoU…
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    Correcting Carter’s Mistake: Removing Cabinet Status from the U.S. Department of Education | The...
    May 4, 2020, marks 40 years to the day when the U.S. Department of Education opened its doors. The Cabinet-level agency is no longer in its infancy; Americans have four decades of data on academic...
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    Jonathan Butcher
    @JM_Butcher
    Jun 21, 2022
    The Supreme Court delivered a huge victory for families today in Carson v. Makin. Lots of analysis to come, but a quick take with a refresher on the case background in this thread: Court determined that a state violates the Constitution’s religious protections…1/13
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    Jonathan Butcher
    @JM_Butcher
    May 2, 2018
    Free Speech Efforts on Campus Face Uphill Battle in California, @yaf @GoldwaterInst @bradleydevlin
    Free Speech Efforts on Campus Face Uphill Battle in California - The Daily Signal
    From dailysignal.com
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    Jonathan Butcher
    @JM_Butcher
    Sep 22, 2021
    Replying to @axios
    Charter schools are public schools.
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    Jonathan Butcher
    @JM_Butcher
    Nov 8, 2021
    White House says GOP is lying about critical race theory in schools, evidence shows otherwise washex.am/3CROjCD
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    Jonathan Butcher
    @JM_Butcher
    Apr 19, 2022
    IT'S HERE: Splintered: Critical Race Theory and the Progressive War on Truth. Critical race theory is injecting intolerance & prejudice in K-12 and higher ed and Splintered explains what parents, board members and policymakers can do. Order now!
    Splintered: Critical Race Theory and the Progressive War on Truth
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    Jonathan Butcher
    @JM_Butcher
    Aug 19, 2024
    Replying to @esanzi
    Do they plan to give it back?
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    Jonathan Butcher
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    Dec 14, 2023
    NEW: The Heritage Foundation has designed a blueprint that school boards and educators may use to integrate the "success sequence" into classrooms. 🧵1/7
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