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In his keynote address at the National Symposium for Classical Education in February, Daniel Scoggin, co-founder of the classical charter school network Great Hearts Academies, traced the decline of classical education in America back to liberal ideas of the Enlightenment, ideas that, in his telling, unleashed an individualism, industrialism, and relativism antithetical to any education oriented to truth, beauty, and goodness.
On Tuesday, Iowa became the third U.S. state to adopt “education savings accounts” that will enable all families to use state funds an average of about $7,500 a year to pay for private school tuition or other forms of education spending. The state follows Arizona and West Virginia in making such programs universal, or eligible to all families, not just students with special needs as is the case in several states.