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I recently wrote how public educators and unions were methodically killing public education. The best example this week comes from New York where a school board committee has solved the dismal math and reading scores for children in the system . . . they lowered the standards. This is not the first system to gut its standards rather than improve its quality of education. As teachers and unions object to school choice, they continue to make the case for private education. Parents are increasingly voting with their feet. The board is simply calling the lack of proficiency “the new normal”...

A group of angry parents has blasted their children's school board after it emerged their 9th-graders were being assigned "woke" books that contained graphic violence and sexual material. Furious parents lined up before Virginia's Loudoun County School Board this week to read several "pornographic" passages from the books.