Throwing money at America's Public Schools and Universities is what causes this kind of stupid. Candidate Painter is a wonderful example of why Sec of Education Betsy DeVos is right in pursuing school choice for kids
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Amber Athey Media Reporter
1:10 PM 05/16/2018
Democratic Senate candidate Richard Painter asked what the “point” of the American Revolution was in a Wednesday tweet.
Painter suggested that the revolution was pointless because the United States does not have socialized medicine or cheap college tuition and because Trump is president.
“What was the point of the Revolution if subjects of the British Crown get single payer health care and university education at a fraction of what it costs us and we are stuck with a President guilty of treason, bribery, and other crimes, and a Congress unwilling to get rid of him?” Painter asked.
What was the point of the Revolution if subjects of the British Crown get single payer health care and university education at a fraction of what it costs us and we are stuck with a President guilty of treason, bribery and other crimes, and a Congress unwilling to get rid of him?
— Richard W. Painter (@RWPUSA) May 16, 2018
Painter is currently running for the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party nomination in the U.S. Senate race and is a former White House chief ethics counsel.
Thank You Ms Athey and the DC.
"a President guilty of treason, bribery and other crimes" ?????
Guilty by whose standards? Where's your evidence and Court judgements of guilt, please?
Leftist Reverse Discrimination takes a cold shot from the Trump Dept of Education under Sec Betsy DeVos.
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Grace Carr Reporter
4:34 PM 05/14/2018
The U.S. Department of Education is investigating multiple programs and scholarships at Yale University after it received a complaint indicating the school offers an array of initiatives to women only.
Following University of Southern California assistant lecturer Kursat C. Pekgoz’s complaint to the DOE’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in a Feb. 18 letter, the DOE launched an April 26 investigation into the allegations against the prestigious college.
“Yale University violates Title IX by funding/sustaining programs which practice discrimination in their admission/election practices,” Pekgoz wrote in his complaint to the OCR, according to Campus Reform.
Included in the list of programs being investigated are Yale’s “Women Faculty Forum,” the “Working Women’s Network,” the “Yale Women’s Campaign School” and “Yale University Women’s Organization.”
Pekgoz used to consider himself a feminist and even worked on an initiative to help Turkish women become literate; but after spending time in America’s collegiate education system, it is clear women have the advantage, the assistant lecturer told Campus Reform.
Women are outperforming men in school by a large margin, according to The New York Times. Not only are women getting far better grades than their male classmates, but they are also more likely to graduate with a degree than their male peers. Ten women graduate for every eight men who do, the National Center for Education Statistics reported.
TalentWorks, a site specializing in matching applicants to jobs, reported in January women are 48 percent more likely to get hired than men after analyzing over 4,000 job applications. (RELATED: Venus Williams Shuts Down Feminists. Says Women Have More Opportunities Than Ever Before)
Where most colleges used to be male dominated, men made up 44 percent of all college students in the United States in 2017, according to Department of Education data.
Thank You Ms Carr, the DC, and the U.S. Dept of Education
John Stossel: What Haters Don't Get About Betsy DeVos
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Arthur Schaper
Posted: May 06, 2018 12:01 AM
When I started out in education, the teachers union reps would tell me, “We are here to protect you.” However, what I learned on the job—and after leaving the profession altogether—is that unions protect unions, not the individual workers, and definitely not the kids. In many states, first-year teachers pay the union dues, even if they do not formally join the union, but get no protection. The classic phrase among veteran teachers is “you can be fired for the cut of your hair.” As for the core interests of these public sector legal mobs, teachers’ union strikes have erupted all over the country, disrupting education for their students, betraying a sinister political agenda to help Democrats going into Election 2018. In school districts across the country, rank politicization has become commonplace. For example, In Laguna Beach, CA, teachers allowed students to beat a Trump piñata.
These unions are worse for the students since they hide behind the eternal banner of “We care for the kids”, yet they go to notorious lengths to protect their worst members while refusing to benefit their best. Project Veritas recently published incredible undercover footage of teachers union leaders not only admitting to their professional cover-ups, but also the routine lies they trot out to protect their members at all costs. Listen to Dr. Dave Perry detail the steps he would take to “bend the truth” for a supposed teacher who had hit then threatened a student in a New Jersey middle school. Another New Jersey teacher admitted to protecting a teacher who had had sex with a student. This perversity isn’t isolated to the Eastern seaboard in deeply Democratic, urban enclaves. Steve Wentz, President of the United Teachers of Witchita, Kansas, admitted to hitting, abusing, and threatening kids. Incredibly, schools insist on asserting in loco parentis authority as guardians for these children.
One would think that the press would look out for us. While local alternative newspapers have taken incredible steps to research and expose bad teachers (LA Weekly, for example), other newspapers shrug off the exposure and even attack James O’Keefe for his undercover efforts. Consider this passage in the Trentontian over the Dave Perry debacle:
The undercover news organization, which has its own reputation problems and is led by muckraker James O’Keefe, released a damning video on Wednesday of Hamilton Township Education Association President Dave Perry explaining to one of Project Veritas’ operatives what lengths he would go to protect his members.
First, according to the Trentonian, O’Keefe is a “muckraker." This inadvertently serves as a badge of honor, notwithstanding the article’s sinister intentions. The article then slams Project Veritas as a dubious organization, then practically covers for the cover-up, not noting the crimes perpetrated by union members. Where has the press been all these decades, anyway? Shouldn’t they, as the Fourth Estate of our constitutional republic, have kept an eye on these government unions? No one should be surprised, however, that corporate media, in lock step with liberal agenda, has rarely tampered with the Democratic Party’s largest donors.
Thankfully, the empire of American teachers unions is on the wane. First, there’s the federal court system. Friedrichs vs. CA ended in a sad 4-4 stalemate with the death of Justice Scalia. This short yet devastating judicial setback to end coerced dues from individual employees has given way to a more likely victory this year with Janus v. AFSCME. That case asks the fundamental question should a public sector employee be forced to pay dues to a union, even if they have not and do not want to join? Public sector unions and their fawning press are predicting the worst.
Despite legal inertia in the court system, states have already enacted comprehensive collective bargaining reforms (Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa). Now in blue states, a bitter fight has broken out over how left-wing the unions have—and should—become. Public sector unions have ditched Dianne Feinstein for hard-left, open-borders state senator Kevin De Leon in California’s upcoming US Senate race. In New York State, the Workers Rights Party has frayed inexorably, further straining an already contentious primary fight for incumbent Governor Andrew Cuomo, who will be facing “Sex and the City” alumna Cynthia Nixon. The infighting shows the decreasing power of top union leaders over their own members, many who are chafing under the cronyism and inattention of their leaders.
One overlooked story in Las Vegas shows how even before the final decision is rendered for Janus, teachers are already rebelling against their unions. In an unprecedented move, the Clark County Education Association broke away from the Nevada and National Education Association. The 20,000 member union, the largest in the state, voted to break away over high union dues and disagreement with leadership’s political goals and endorsements. The Nevada Education Association is losing money as well as political influence, especially in a crucial swing state for 2018 and 2020.
The Silver State is a right-to-work state, but public-sector unions have retained their power notwithstanding, until now. What precipitated this break-up besides the excessive union dues? Much like the split creating a fractious Democratic primary in the New York Governor’s race, the Nevada teachers’ union fallout likely follows from the political upheaval during the Bernie-Hillary Presidential primary, which devolved into unethical, illegal delegate shenanigans during the Nevada Democratic Party convention in 2016 (Check out this video for the political chaos which ensued).
Despite the media and Big Labor’s best efforts, teachers union membership is in decline. Unions are squandering their diminished political capital for wage increases at the cost of their purported mission to care for students—and all coinciding with a contentious political year. Smaller unions are breaking away from the larger union fold. The Janus case will deliver the final blow if the ruling goes as intended with Justice Gorsuch casting the deciding vote against public sector forced unionism and coerced dues.
A half-century ago, teachers unions had a place in the American public. Now they have forgotten their place, going from protectors of innocent teachers to enablers of greed and malfeasance. Their political demise in civil society is welcome and timely.
Thank You Mr Schaper and Townhall.
And there goes the Welfare State. The closer kids education get to their own parents hands the better shot at a real life those kids are going to get.
Washington Times
S.A. Miller - The Washington Times - Wednesday, April 26, 2017
President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday to start pulling the federal government out of K-12 education, following through on a campaign promise to return school control to state and local officials.
The order, dubbed the “Education Federalism Executive Order,” will launch a 300-day review of Obama-era regulations and guidance for school districts and directs Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to modify or repeal measures she deems an overreach by the federal government.
“For too long the government has imposed its will on state and local governments. The result has been education that spends more and achieves far, far, far less,” Mr. Trump said. “My administration has been working to reverse this federal power grab and give power back to families, cities [and] states — give power back to localities.”
He said that previous administrations had increasingly forced schools to comply with “whims and dictates” from Washington, but his administration would break the trend.
“We know local communities know it best and do it best,” said Mr. Trump, who was joined by several Republican governors for the signing. “The time has come to empower teachers and parents to make the decisions that help their students achieve success.”
Thank You Mr Miller Wash Times and especially President Trump.
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