#Kids are ‘failing’ online learning

#Kids are ‘failing’ online learning

As part of a recent weekly update on education during the pandemic, Los Angeles Unified superintendent Austin Beutner announced a “sobering” fact: students are still struggling with the switch to online learning months after in-person classrooms shuttered. “We can see it in attendance figures which are below those typically seen when students are at schools,”…

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#Team Biden’s backward hostility to charter schools

#Team Biden’s backward hostility to charter schools

“#Team Biden’s backward hostility to charter schools” Joe Biden is expected to name Connecticut Education Commissioner Miguel Cardona as his education secretary Wednesday. Given rumors about the president-elect tapping union officials for the job, this is a relief. Still, reformers and school-choice advocates shouldn’t let their guards down. In a recent interview with the Education…

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#De Blasio degrades school standards

#De Blasio degrades school standards

“#De Blasio degrades school standards” It’s remarkable enough that a leader sitting in America’s financial capital would deliver such a faithful update of Karl Marx’s disastrous dictum, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” But to do so as a preamble to announcing the removal of selection criteria in middle-school…

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#Indoctrinating an entire school system in PC racism

#Indoctrinating an entire school system in PC racism

“#Indoctrinating an entire school system in PC racism” Seattle Public Schools recently held a racially charged teacher-training session that convicted US schools of committing “spirit murder” against black kids and demanded that white teachers “bankrupt [their] privilege in acknowledgment of [their] thieved inheritance.” According to whistleblower documents from the session that I’ve ­reviewed, the trainers…

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#NYC must downsize its government and other commentary

#NYC must downsize its government and other commentary

“#NYC must downsize its government and other commentary” Budget expert: NYC Must Downsize Its Gov’t With tax revenue down sharply thanks to the pandemic, Yankees president and former labor commissioner Randy Levine, at Empire Report New York, sees no alternative to “downsizing” city government. “The private sector has taken an enormous financial hit.” Yet “for…

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