Between 1980 and 2014 the number of public school students increased by 22.6%. Over the same period, total staff headcount increased by 50.1%, led by an 88.1% increase in school district administrative staff and followed by a 54.1% increase in instructional staff, which included a 63.1% increase in school principals and assistant principals. Find out what the numbers are in your school district. Then ask yourself: What are all those administrators actually doing? Why? Posted by Terry Kirkpatrick at 11:00 AM
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“These young people now have been taught to look around them to see defects in America – which is the freest country in the history of the world – and to feel that somehow America is the source of all evil in the universe, and it’s because they’ve never been exposed to the actual evil of the history of humanity. They know nothing!” ~ Camille Paglia The Left’s long march through our institutions is now complete. The evidence: The Left is now turning on itself and eating its young. The far left, under the banner of Black Lives Matter, is protesting
Read more ... →Walter E. Williams – October 11, 2017 As George Orwell said, “some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.” Many stupid ideas originate with academics on college campuses. If they remained there and didn’t infect the rest of society, they might be a source of entertainment, much in the way a circus is. Let’s look at a few stupid ideas peddled by intellectuals. During the Cold War, academic leftists made a moral equivalency between communist totalitarianism and democracy. Worse is the fact that they exempted communist leaders from the type of harsh criticism directed toward Adolf Hitler, even
Read more ... →Walter E. Williams | Posted: Sep 20, 2017 12:01 AM That the problems of today’s black Americans are a result of a legacy of slavery, racial discrimination and poverty has achieved an axiomatic status, thought to be self-evident and beyond question. This is what academics and the civil rights establishment have taught. But as with so much of what’s claimed by leftists, there is little evidence to support it. The No. 1 problem among blacks is the effects stemming from a very weak family structure. Children from fatherless homes are likelier to drop out of high school, die by suicide,
Read more ... →Aug 18, 2017, Rush Limbaugh transcript. RUSH: America is under attack from within. Our culture, our history, our founding are under the most direct assault I have seen in my life. And I’m sure it’s the same with you. We haven’t seen anything like this. You might even get away with saying that we are on the cusp of a second civil war. Some of you might say that we are already into it, that it has already begun. However you characterize it, though, we are under attack from within. And it’s being bought and paid for by people from
Read more ... →POLICY & ANALYSIS GOP Obamacare Replacement Leaked Inform 00:0000:47 • JED GRAHAM • 2/24/2017 Reprints Social Security’s day of reckoning is a dozen years away, according to the Congressional Budget Office. ObamaCare may be headed for crisis as early as next year. Here’s how to save both, offering more affordable coverage and preserving the old-age safety net — without breaking the Treasury. ObamaCare was sick and in need of major surgery no matter who won the election, but with the Trump administration unwilling to promote enrollment or step up enforcement of the individual mandate, the exchanges could be
Read more ... →4396 8 AP by MONA SALAMA17 Mar 20172,615 Teachers’ unions are cheering the news that New York state education officials have killed off a literacy test which successfully revealed that almost a third of candidate teachers cannot meet eight-grade standards. Members of the New York state Board of Regents voted on Monday to eliminate the literacy exam which revealed the prospective teachers’ poor reading and writing skills, saying the controversial test is “flawed” and that it puts Latino and African-American teacher applicants at an unfair disadvantage. Advocates of testing said the decision to kill the literacy test will lower teaching standards,
Read more ... →Rush Limbaugh – March 14, 2017 Hey, folks, a little pop quiz. What do the Congressional Budget Office and the National Weather Service have in common? Well, you can call it fake, but certainly some of the wackiest forecasting that we have ever encountered. Do you realize they canceled 8,000 flights in the Northeast for what’s gonna turn out to be four to eight inches of snow? And I know what you’re gonna say. “That’s okay, Rush, they got the forecast right. They just missed by a couple hundred miles where, but the intensity of the snow, there
Read more ... →The student Left’s culture of intolerance is creating a new generation of conservatives Student demands for censorship get a lot of coverage. Spiked Online’s Free Speech University Rankings, now in its third annual edition, argues that there is a “crisis of free speech on campus”.By analysing the censorious policies and actions that have taken place on British campuses, Spiked concluded that 63.5 per cent of universities actively censor speech and 30.5 per cent stifle speech through excessive regulation. You can barely go a few days without encountering a new op-ed covering censorship on campus.Maajid Nawaz describes the students demanding censorship as members of the “regressive left”.
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