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Enlist in your local Cajun Navy, the American refugees are coming.Watching the dumpster fire Joe Biden and his team lit with U.S. dollars and materiel in Afghanistan is demoralizing. Realizing we’re facing at least three more years of such catastrophic ineptitude, even if Biden is nominally replaced, is almost too much to absorb.Just eight months to the regime of “normalcy,” we’ve seen millions of unknowns crossing our southern border unchecked and child-raping third-world terrorists chasing off U.S. helicopters in Afghanistan. These are not accidents; these are man-made catastrophes. They are the direct result of our elites’ corruption and of American...

Since public schools are spectacularly successful leftist recruitment centers, weakening public attachment to them through lockdowns was a dangerous move for Democrats.Between May and October 2020, homeschooling more than doubled among U.S. households with school-age children, from 5.4 percent that spring to 11.1 percent that fall, according to new Census Bureau data. Black and Hispanic Americans were the most likely to switch to homeschooling, while white and Asian Americans were the least likely. This could be due to the fact that African-American children are the most likely to be financially locked into poor-quality school districts, or that black Americans have...

Any couple considering having children nowdays should think TWICE about doing so. Have you thought about having submit your children to the INDOCTRINATION of our public schools? How about SPANISH and MUSLIM influences? Is LEFT WING LIBERAL BIAS BS that is in the curriculum of any concern? My 2 cents... If you can't afford private school, don't have children. If you do have children and you can't afford private school, I wish you luck, but you will need MUCH more than luck to survive baby!

The government-school establishment has said the same thing for decades: Education is too important to leave to the competitive market. If we really want to help our kids, we must focus more resources on the government schools. But despite this mantra, the focus is on something other than the kids. When The Washington Post asked George Parker, head of the Washington, D.C., teachers union, about the voucher program there, he said: "Parents are voting with their feet. ... As kids continue leaving the system, we will lose teachers. Our very survival depends on having kids in D.C. schools so we'll...

Gene Bronson, board president of Longview Christian School, said he's not sure what it is about the school that inspires so many students to consider the service academies. The school has two alumni at the U.S. Naval Academy and one each at the U.S. Air Force Academy and U.S. Military Academy. "I think part of it might be that it's a small school, so the students get to be involved in everything," Bronson said. "We also stress a lot of character development and encourage the idea of service to others." Bronson said he's proud the school has sent so many...

School choice advocates will be watching Tuesday's Republican gubernatorial primary in New Hampshire where one of the candidates says if elected, he'll try to give parents a tax credit for sending their children to private schools. New Hampshire has neither a state income nor a general sales tax. However, Gordon Humphrey, a former U.S. senator currently running for the GOP gubernatorial nomination, would like to give low and moderate-income parents the chance to use education credits to lower their other state-related taxes or local property taxes. According to Humphrey's campaign, parents would be able "to take a dollar for dollar...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The city school district awarded $25 million in contracts Wednesday to seven outside companies, including Edison Schools Inc., to run 45 of the district's 264 schools. Edison, the nation's largest private operator of public schools, will get $11.7 million a year to manage 20 low-performing schools in the district of more than 200,000 students. The School Reform Commission, created by the state after it seized control of the city's failing public school system in December, voted 4-0 to award the contracts, which run for five years. Teachers, parents and students argued for months against hiring Edison, which...