How COVID-19 Made School Choice a Priority

In this week’s installment of The Reason Roundtable, Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, and Nick Gillespie comment on the latest malfeasance at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and explain how COVID-19 highlights the importance of National School Choice Week.

Discussed in the show:
1:16: Policy news from California and the CDC
11:06: Are we “turning the corner” on COVID-19 cases?
16:54: COVID and National School Choice week.
24:13: Peter tells us exactly what public sector unions are about.
32:05: Email question of the week.
36:48: We had an inauguration last week.
51:32: Media recommendations for the week.

This week’s links:

• “How the CDC Bungles Testing of Early COVID-19 Quarantine Patients,” by Elizabeth Nolan Brown

• a Twitter thread of the weirdest things Trump did

• “Surge of Student Suicidees Pushes Las Vegas School to Reopen,” by Erica L. Green

• “Chicago Teachers Union Refuses Order to Go Back to Classrooms,” by Robby Soave

• “As Teachers Unions and B