The RoanokeSlant
This file is a US personal journal of commentary of examples of the Roanoke Times and Liberal Media Slant...... lbhagen@aol.comFriday, May 06, 2022
Biden Attacks Charter Schools
Biden has a tawdry new scheme to cripple charter schools
https://roanoke.com/opinion/columnists/will-biden-has-a-tawdry-new-scheme-to-cripple-charter-schools/article_0fa69076-c1b6-11ec-b0f9-7fcf9797e66c.html
Charter schools are tuition-free public schools authorized to exercise wider discretion in educational practices than most public schools that are tightly enveloped in union rules. Although charters do not divert public funds from public education, teachers unions generally oppose them because charters expand parents’ choices, thereby infusing into public education something teachers unions dread: competition.
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Last month, President Joe Biden’s Education Department released 13 pages of pettifogging rules patently written to discourage and impede charter schools from accessing a $440 million federal program of support for charters.
Biden’s tapestry of obstructions will not halt the proliferation of charters. Despite the Democratic Party’s increasingly frantic opposition, more than 7,000 charters with 205,000 teachers now serve more than 3 million students.
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WSJ: Backlash Against Biden’s Limits on Charter Schools
https://www.wsj.com/articles/backlash-against-joe-biden-on-charters-education-department-rules-charter-schools-program-miguel-cardona-11650057608
Critics lambaste new proposed rules that make it harder to qualify for federal funds.
No President has been more hostile to charters schools than Joe Biden, and his Department of Education is proving it with proposed rules that undermine the federal Charter Schools Program. The assault is triggering a bipartisan political backlash.
“Charter schools are working to reverse our society’s historic discrimination against [black and Hispanic] families and their children—yet [the Education Department] now proposes to put the burden of reversing centuries of residential segregation on them,” Mr. Marshall writes in the Hill website.
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Biden Administration Wants To Force Public Charter Schools To Select Students By Race
https://thefederalist.com/2022/04/14/biden-administration-wants-to-force-public-charter-schools-to-select-students-by-race/
The rule would prioritize racial quotas and require charter schools to prove they were not hampering ‘desegregation efforts.’
Ignoring that black and Hispanic students are the majority in many charter schools already,
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NYT: We Learned Our Lesson Last Year: Do Not Close Schools
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/20/opinion/omicron-schools-do-not-close.html
The risk of severe outcomes to kids from coronavirus infection is low, and the risks to kids from being out of school are high.
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Is 3rd Reich In DC Schools?
1930s History: The affected German children were instructed to report any activities or conversations that could be considered treacherous. Children reported the activity of neighbors, teachers, religious leaders, and even their own family.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_propaganda_in_Nazi_Germany
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Nov 2021: DC elementary school gave 4-year-olds ‘anti-racism’ ‘fistbook’ asking them to identify racist family members
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dc-elementary-anti-racism-fistbook-racist-family-members
(may have to copy-paste link into browser to view fox article)
'It’s not your fault for having white privilege, but it is your fault if you choose to ignore it,' a presentation told kids in Pre-K through 3rd grade
Richards’ "Anti-Racism Fight Club Fistbook for Kids" explains that "white people are a part of a society that benefits them in almost every instance," and that "it’s as if white people walk around with an invisible force field because they hold all of the power in America."
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Color Blind Education – When?
Perhaps we need a massive expansion of Charter Schools in the InnerCities to offset the dismal outcomes of their Democrat-Run Public Schools.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/04/color-blind-education-when.html
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Whose Children Are They Anyway?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/04/whose-children-are-they-anyway.html
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Our DisFunctional And Failing Schools
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/10/our-disfunctional-and-failing-schools.html
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Youngkin School Choice Achievable
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/02/youngkin-school-choice-achievable.html
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