Opinion: Teachers' unions locked kids out of schools to get more of your money, not for safety
Government Accountability Institute's Peter Schweizer tells 'Jesse Watters Primetime' Randi Weingarten's AFT should be audited amid public school students’ failing grades.Way to go, teachers unions! America’s school children were among the big casualties of COVID-19 pandemic policies. Shuttered schools and remote learning sank national math scores, slashed individual lifetime earnings, and stunted the economic growth potential.
Learning losses from teachers’ unions’ pandemic policies dumbed-down our children, setting us on a road to fiscal ruin. A newly released study by Stanford economist Eric Hanushek discovered in an of scores that"eighth-grade math fell for every state, with a national average decline of eight NAEP scale score points. . .[The decline was] enough to erase all of the gains that had occurred since 2000.
Hanushek projected that learning losses could result in a $70,000 drop in lifetime earnings and a $28 trillion loss for the next century. Specifically, this downturn will affect states according to their students’ scores. Utah will fare better than Oklahoma and Delaware ; Texas will fare better than its bordering states .
But teachers’ unions and blue state politicians don’t want action. They want to perpetuate the pandemic forever. Already, Philadelphia and Camden schools have temporarily brought back COVID-era mandatory mask policies for students and staff returning from the holiday break.Mandatory masking defies settled science, which has documented that"Children do not readily acquire SARS-CoV-2 , spread it to other children or teachers, or endanger parents or others at home. . .
South Africa Latest News, South Africa Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
National Education Association teachers union creates 'Race-Based Trauma' learning courseThe National Education Association, an educator labor union associated with BLM and Critical Race Theory, has announced a “Race-Based Trauma Blended Learning Course.'
Read more »
Devaluing teachers hurts America by hollowing out our education system: Brent LarkinOPINION: 'A large number of odious types in elected life are so obsessed with demonizing public schoolteachers that it interferes with these legislators’ ability to deal with real problems,' writes columnist Brent Larkin.
Read more »
In Depth: Learning loss and tutoringHal talks with teachers and students about the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on learning.
Read more »
UK faces further disruption as teachers set to announce strike actionTeachers in England and Wales are set to announce strike action later on Monday, joining nurses, rail workers and others in staging industrial action in a further headache for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's government.
Read more »
UK faces further disruption as teachers set to announce strikeTeachers in England and Wales are set to announce strike action later on Monday, joining nurses, rail workers and others in staging industrial action in a further headache for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's government.
Read more »
Former New Caney ISD teachers posts bond following arrest for inappropriate relationship with studentNew Caney ISD police issued an arrest warrant for 35-year-old Samantha Cummings, a teacher with the district. She was charged with improper Relationship between Educator and Student.
Read more »