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GSEs, if they are created at all, should always have limited-life charters and never be granted perpetual ones.

History teaches an essential lesson: GSEs, if they are created at all, should always have limited-life charters and never be granted perpetual ones.

The GSE reform legislation now being considered by Congress should be amended to revoke the GSEs' perpetual charters and replace them with limited-life charters.

The inclusion of clauses dictating labor and environmental policies defeats the purpose of free trade agreements.

Even as charter schooling has been at the forefront of education reform efforts, we know remarkably little about how these schools approach this critical dimension of education. What have charter schools done with the opportunity to rethink civic education? Are there lessons to be learned? Are there challenges that impede their ability to teach citizenship?

We are scholars and analysts who support school choice in some fashion, though we have varied perspectives regarding the optimal nature, extent, and design of choice-based arrangements. Choice's track record so far is promising and provides support for continuing expansion of school choice policies.

This week's developments have been notable--less because the reauth effort is likely to go anywhere, and more because they offer a clarifying look at where things stand.