On the latest Midweek Monitor, RiShawn Biddle analyzes the Philadelphia traditional district’s decision to close 23 schools, looks at the battle in Alabama over a school choice bill opposed by the National Education Association’s Cotton State local, and checks out the progress of proposed Parent Trigger laws in Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee.

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