A growing number of Americans think the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic is behind us. Yet in the District of Columbia, local officials are still clinging to government mandates that disproportionately harm low-income minority students. 

The Daily Signal’s Doug Blair pressed Mayor Muriel Bowser on the issue at an Aug. 15 press conference, asking the mayor why the District of Columbia planned to bar unvaccinated students, many of whom are black, from attending school in person. 

Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts spoke Aug. 18 at the Guatemala National Prayer Breakfast and met with Guatemala President Alejandro Giammattei to discuss shared policy objectives and opportunities for collaboration.

The international trip was Roberts’ first as Heritage’s president and follows Giammattei’s visit to Washington in December 2021, which included a speech at Heritage.

For years, The Heritage Foundation has helped educate candidates and members of Congress with our Solutions publication. A new iteration of the popular product, Solutions Journal, was recently honored with Graphic Design USA’s award for journals and publications.

Burke, director of Heritage’s Center for Education Policy, follows in the footsteps of two well-known colleagues who previously served on Mason’s board in the late 1990s: founder and former president Ed Feulner and Edwin Meese III, the Ronald Reagan distinguished fellow emeritus.