Chicago Public Schools' Twisted Goal: End Selective Enrollment Schools While Keeping Nearly Empty, Failing Schools Open
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Wirepoints ^
| 01/23/2023 | Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner
There’s little that better highlights the moral bankruptcy of Chicago’s ‘equity’ agenda than a look at how CPS is treating two of its schools: Northside College Prep and Douglass High.CPS and union officials want to end selective enrollment at Northside, a diverse, top-performing school where blacks and Hispanics excel at the highest
level. At the same time, those officials want to keep open Douglass High School, a nearly-empty, all-black neighborhood school that spends over $68,000 per student…and yet not a single one of its students could read or do math at grade level last year.That’s the official policy of CPS...
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This article from Fox News and footage from Libs of TikTok shows what perverted adults are doing to underage children in the public schools. This was a school sanctioned event. This is what the public schools are doing to underage children.
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Wordpress ^
| April 1, 2023 | Dan from Squirrel Hill
As a libertarian, I support letting consenting adults do whatever they want in the privacy of their own home.But that’s not the case here.This happened at a public high school in North Carolina.The public high school is called Forsyth Technical Community College.Paula Dibley is the school’s chief officer of student success and
strategic innovation.Underage minors were at this incident.This was a school sanctioned event.As this incident happens, the adults in the room cheer.None of the adults does anything to try to protect the underage student.I recommend homeschooling your children, or sending them to a Montessori School, a Marva Collins school,...
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This private school has been open all school year, and has had zero in-school transmissions of COVID-19. And its tuition is far less than what the public schools spend. The real reason for keeping the public schools closed has nothing to do with COVID-19.
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| March 1, 2021 | Dan from Squirrel Hill
This private school has been open all school year, and has had zero in-school transmissions of COVID-19. And its tuition is far less than what the public schools spend. The
real reason for keeping the public schools closed has nothing to do with COVID-19.By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)March 1, 2021According to this article, zero cases of COVID-19 have been contracted at this private Catholic school in Philadelphia, which has been open for the entire school year so far.For students who are not part of the school’s affiliated church, tuition is $6,332 yer year. It’s even less for...
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Baltimore public schools spend more than $15,000 per student per year, but schools are freezing
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Wordpress ^
| January 4, 2018 | Dan from Squirrel Hill
Baltimore public schools spend more than $15,000 per student per year, but Democrats Bill Ferguson and Zeke Cohen say they can’t afford to heat the classrooms in January NPR just published this article about how students at Baltimore’s public schools are freezing because the classrooms do not have any heat.One student said
she couldn’t feel her feet.Another student said he was wearing four shirts, two hoodies, and a jacket.The same article also says that Democratic State Senator Bill Ferguson and Democratic City Councilman Zeke Cohen both said that the city’s public schools did not have enough money.But like all people who...
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Even more bad facts about Chicago Public Schools’ 20 emptiest schools – Wirepoints Quickpoint
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Wirepoints ^
| 26 Aug 2023 | Ted Dabrowski
Manley High School, for example, has a capacity of nearly 1,300 students, but just 64 kids attend the school and only 2 percent of the kids can read at grade level. And
Uplift High School – where operational spending is about $30,400 per student – has just as many employees, 54, as there are students, 55. Despite that 1v1 ratio, only 3 percent of students are proficient in reading. And Douglass High School has both a principal making $147,000 an assistant principal making $122,000 – all for managing just 44 students.
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Charter schools outperform public schools in US, with NY results ‘among the best in the country’: study
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NY POST ^
| 6/11/2023 | Carl Campanile
Charter schools in the US are significantly outperforming their traditional-public-school peers across the nation — and by particularly large margins in New York City and other urban areas, an extensive new study reveals. “This
is not a fluke,” said Margaret Macke Raymond, director of the prestigious Stanford University Center for Research on Educational Outcomes, which performed the study. “The charter-school sector has improved across the country. “The New York results are among the best in the country,” she added.
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The Tragedy of the Schools: Many parents are losing faith in their closed public schools
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Wall Street Journal ^
| February 3, 2021 | Daniel Henninger
Among its multiple alterations, the coronavirus pandemic of 2020-21 may be undermining the role of public schools in the United States, in place since the middle of the 19th century. It
is a reassessment that is long overdue. A relevant anecdote is Ronald Reagan’s famous explanation that he didn’t leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left him. Across the country the past year, that has been the experience of parents with children in many of the nation’s public systems—abandoned by schools they’ve supported with their tax dollars. In Chicago, the nation’s third-largest system is on the brink of a...
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Oregon Sued for Shuttering Religious Schools While Allowing Public Schools to Reopen In-Person
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The Christian Post ^
| 10/21/20 | Leonardo Blair
A small Christian school in Oregon has filed a discrimination lawsuit against Gov. Kate Brown and several other high-ranking officials for restricting in-person instruction in private, religious schools during the coronavirus pandemic while allowing public schools to reopen. In
the lawsuit filed last Friday by the Alliance Defending Freedom on behalf of Hermiston Christian School, it is alleged that Brown repeatedly assured the leaders of the school located in Umatilla County that they would be able to provide in-person instruction to the 51 students enrolled in its K-12 program as long as they met certain health guidelines. Brown reversed course...
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As schools around the region make tough calls on coronavirus, Seattle Public Schools announce they will remain open
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Seattle Times ^
As school districts and colleges around the region go online-only or close, Washington state’s largest school district released a statement Friday saying it won’t be doing that: Seattle Public Schools will remain open. The
district’s reasoning, the announcement said, beyond listening to health officials, is making sure children receive the different services they need — in and out of the classroom. “While education is our primary responsibility, public schools are also the access point to critical social services for thousands of students and families,” district spokesman Tim Robinson wrote in the statement. “Many of our families rely on our schools...
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Parents flocked to charter schools, public schools hemorrhage students over past 4 years: report
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Fox News ^
| 1/06/24 | Joshua Q. Nelson
A new report shows that charter schools have made significant gains over the past four years. The
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS) last month revealed new data analysis over the past four years titled "Believing in Public Education: A Demographic and State-level Analysis of Public Charter School and District Public School Enrollment Trends." The report showed an uptick in charter school enrollment from 2019 to 2023. More recently, charter school enrollment grew 2% while district enrollment plateaued. More precisely, charter school enrollment increased by 72,241 students while public school enrollment increased by only 7,458 students nationwide. To explain...
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Oregon Governor Sued for Allowing Small Public Schools To Reopen; Christian Schools? Not a Chance
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Red State ^
| 10/22/2020 | Mike Miller
As Ronald Reagan might have said to embattled Oregon Democrat Gov. Kate Brown, “There you go again.†Now
a small Christian school in Oregon is suing Brown and other state officials after claiming the state is discriminating against private and religious schools by keeping them locked down while allowing public schools to reopen. The lawsuit claims that Brown has allowed public schools with less than 75 students to reopen, but has continued her ban on the reopening of private/religious schools that meet the same qualifying number of student enrollment, as reported by the Daily Wire.The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed...
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Demand for private schools leads to waitlist pool and expansion amid uncertainty for some public schools
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q13fox.com ^
| February 26, 2021 | Hana Kim
BUCKLEY, Wash. - It’s the type of noise we don’t hear as often, the bustle of kids outside a school playground. Inside
St. Anne’s School in Seattle, real estate is a hot commodity with students spaced out in the classrooms and the hallways. There is also a new way of communicating through masks with signs that read how can you show your emotions while wearing a mask. "I think teachers are dialed into a whole new level of body language, expression and eyes," Kristin Moore with the Archdiocese of Seattle said. Moore is the Director of Enrollment and Marketing. She...
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Catholic Schools Beat Public Schools in Reading and Math
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Townhall.com ^
| May 5, 2021 | Terry Jeffrey
Here is one demonstrable fact about the difference between Catholic and public schools: Students who study at Catholic schools do better in reading and math. We
know this because students who attended Catholic elementary schools in 2019 tested better in mathematics and reading than students who attended public schools. The latest issue of the Digest of Education Statistics, published by the U.S. Department of Education, includes the average reading and math scores that fourth and eighth grade students achieved in the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, tests that were administered in 2019. Table 221.32a from this digest shows...
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NYC Catholic Schools in Session While Pandemic Closes Public Schools
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The National Catholic Register ^
| 11/20/20 | Christine Rousselle
On Nov. 18, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that public schools would “temporarily” suspend in-person classes.MANHATTAN — Catholic schools in New York City will remain open for in-person learning on a school-by-school basis even as the city’s public schools have closed amid a new wave of the coronavirus pandemic. “We
intend to keep our buildings open regardless of decisions made by Mayor de Blasio regarding NYC public schools,” Superintendent Michael Deegan said in a Nov. 14 letter to parents of Catholic school students in the Archdiocese of New York. When the letter was sent, there was expectation that New York’s...
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The fact that Gavin Newsom sends his own children to private schools tells me everything I need to know about the public schools that are run by California Democrats.
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Twitter ^
| June 26, 2024 | Daniel Alman from Squirrel Hill @DanielAlmanPGH
Daniel Alman from Squirrel Hill @DanielAlmanPGH The fact that Gavin Newsom sends his own children to private schools tells me everything I need to know about the public schools that are run by California Democrats. https://politico.com/news/2024/06/24/new #GavinNewsom #California #PublicEducation #Democrats #Liberals #Homeschool 5:10 AM · Jun 26, 2024
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A Progressive Assault on Selective High Schools. Instead of fixing public education, the left tries to end testing at schools it deems inequitable.
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Wall Street Journal ^
| November 25, 2020 | Chester Finn
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring has fired the latest salvo in America’s assault on meritocracy: a 61-page opinion holding that the suburban Loudoun County school system discriminated against black and Hispanic youngsters because its selective-admission high school, the Academies of Loudon, hadn’t admitted enough of them. Never
mind that—as Mr. Herring acknowledged—the school’s test-based admissions process is open to all and fairly managed. Because its results have a “disparate impact,” the school system must scrap it. Nationwide, selective-admission public schools, also known as “exam schools,” are under attack because the demographics of their student populations don’t match those of their...
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Private Schools Cost Significantly Less Than Public Schools
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Michigan Capitol Confidential ^
| 6/4/2016 | Jacob Weaver
LANSING — Due to their nature as independent, self-supporting institutions, private schools do not disclose data about themselves in a standardized format, which sometimes clouds the public's understanding of them. A
new report, though, sheds some light on the private school landscape in Michigan. Rachel White, a doctoral candidate at Michigan State University, gave a presentation on Thursday about her new study of the private education sector. White spoke at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy’s Issues and Ideas Forum. While 601 private schools serving 113,000 students operate in Michigan, little research has been done to understand these institutions. When...
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Who Controls Our Schools? The Privatization of American Public Schools
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The Independent Media Institute ^
| unknown | Don Hazen,Elizabeth Hines,Steven Rosenfeld,Stan Salett
(Download Link to entire article) The charter school deception is rooted in the shared beliefs of its founders. Corporate
titans like the Walmart-creating Walton family, Bill Gates, and other very wealthy individuals have collectively spent billions seeding and sustaining this movement until states and the federal government passed laws and regulations sanctioning and subsidizing charter schools.
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Kamala Harris touts public schools with: 'I am a product of a public school education'
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American Thinker ^
| 7/22/2023 | Monica Showalter
With no irony whatsover, Kamala Harris stated yesterday in Florida what most of us have been thinking all along. HARRIS:
"Let me start by saying this: I am a product of a public school education. I was sharing with some of the teachers earlier. My first grade teacher, Mrs Francis Wilson, god rest her soul, attended my law school graduation. I am a product of teachers and an educational system that believed in providing the children with the full expanse of information that allowed them to then and encourage them to then reach their own conclusions. Any exercise critical thought....
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U.S. Directs Public Schools to Allow Transgender Access to Restrooms [Obama: EVERY PUBLIC SCHOOL]
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NY Times ^
| 5/13/16
The Obama administration is planning to issue a sweeping directive telling every public school district in the country to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms that match their gender identity. A
letter to school districts will go out Friday, adding to a highly charged debate over transgender rights in the middle of the administration’s legal fight with North Carolina over the issue.
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