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Posted on 09/22/2022 7:08:52 AM PDT by TexasGurl24
Senate hopeful John Fetterman has cast himself as a champion of Pennsylvania's public schools, telling voters he will "make sure our public schools have the funding they need." But his tax records tell a different story. In fact, as mayor of Braddock, Pa., Fetterman failed to pay tens of thousands of dollars in taxes on time to his local school district, one of the poorest in the state.
Woodland Hills School District, which serves Braddock, placed nearly three-dozen tax liens against Fetterman totaling $18,692 for unpaid property taxes from 2006 to 2019, according to records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. The district sued Fetterman twice over the unpaid bills, resulting in default judgments against Fetterman totaling $3,769. Fetterman has since paid off the liens, but in some cases it took him more than six years to satisfy the debt.
The delinquent tax payments undercut Fetterman's claim to be a champion for public schools. In 2018, he said he opposed school vouchers, claiming they would divert funds from public schools to charter and private schools. Fetterman says on his campaign website that he will fight for public school funding if he’s sent to Washington so that "teachers aren't shouldering so much of a burden." He recently called on state lawmakers to "invest more" in Pennsylvania's public schools.
In failing to pay taxes to Woodland Hills, Fetterman deprived funding for one of the poorest and academically challenged districts in the Keystone State. The district's three elementary schools are in the bottom 15 percent of academic achievement tests. Seventy-one percent of Woodland Hills students in the 2021-2022 school year were low-income, one of the highest rates in Pennsylvania, according to state education department data.
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If a democrat says he wants to invest in schools, it means he wants more queer indoctrination of children.
I think Oz is going to win, but this race seems close — which amazes me.
I remember an old SNL skit where George HW Bush (Dana Carvey) spewed some incoherent mess during a presidential debate and then Mike Dukakis (Jon Lovitz) looked at the camera and said, “I can’t believe I’m losing to this guy.”
Fetterman is such a disaster on every level — how can the race be at all close? Yeah: I know the answer.
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Biden and Fetterman are the new perfect Dem candidates = completely mentally incompetent and nearly dead.
Federal Funding?
No thank you socialist freak.
Schools don’t need more “resources”, the government school system needs to be abolished, en toto.
Just graph educational achievement against spending over time. Money coming from government increases, education decreases. Kids are becoming more stupid and ignorant over time.
The solution to education is for education tax dollars to go directly to parents. Then let government get the eff out of the way. Parents should choose how, where, and who educates their children.
People want a choice in education. There are 40,000+ children in Philadelphia that are on wait lists for charter schools. While charter schools are slightly better than your normal public school, they still fall short. Education dollars should be available for any school. If we inject competition into education the weak and inferior, read that as lazy ass teachers, will be saying, “Do you want fries with that?” And, children will be taught by people who actually have the knowledge and skills to deliver a quality education.
Schools (and teachers) are not underfunded. This is code for teachers (a large voter base) to rally and get out the vote.
It’s amazing this trash, no accomplishments ogre is a Senatorial candidate who is in the running. Our country is really in a world of hurt.
The so-called “public” schools do far more harm than good.
No-—deadbeat parents, no way of reprimanding prima dona children who never hear the word no, and administrators who are afraid to be sued ARE the problem, (for the most part).
Teachers, can’t believe I’m saying this, by and large are not as big a problem as the 3 mentioned above.
btw-husband of a teacher. The stories I hear everyday make me wonder why my wife wakes up and goes to her teaching job.
She’d be more sane milking cows
I’ll reply to myself.
Send your kids to parochial school if you can. At least admin there might have a clue about decency and accountability of children.
These kids coming out of public schools can’t even read and write. What a joke.
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The increase and funding and the decrease in effectiveness has gone hand in hand.
Don’t believe the polls, dude.
As for teachers, I went to college with them, I’ve seen them socially and for a brief time my children were semi-educated by them prior to my children being homeschooled. Teachers by and large are underachievers. There is zero rigor in their education. They score lower than average on standardized tests like the SAT. They are indoctrinated in college. The results are self evident. They have not improved over the years. It’s not necessarily individual teacher’s fault. It is a systematic failure.
Teachers need real completion. Teacher unions should be banned. There should be no tenure. They should be fired for poor performance. Pensions should be eliminated and replaced by IRA’s or 401ks. All teachers should be paid based on performance. The productive should not be held back by the unproductive. Don’t like it, then don’t teach. It isn’t rocket science.
“Fetterman is such a disaster on every level — how can the race be at all close? Yeah: I know the answer.”
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Many Pennsylvania Republicans are apathetic about this election, including some here on FR. Their candidate didn’t win the primary, so they’re staying home. I have an OZ sign in my yard.
That’s how you end up with a Tranny as your health secretary.
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