By putting these anti-CRT/CC... & RW propaganda & indoctrination videos in their state’s PS classrooms, Republican pols can garner accolades on the R. PragerU, gets to tell the donors who gave >$65M that the org. has been successful in finding a new, captive audience for its content. Losers: the students, & parents who don’t want their kids watching content explicitly designed to make them more conservative. #PublicSchools are the latest target of the right’s con culture: https://www.mediamatters.org/dennis-prager/public-schools-are-latest-target-rights-con-culture

Defunding #PublicSchools is a growing problem in🩸states: "TX didn’t support students w/special needs -Sp. EDU deficit is $2.3B each yr -irresponsible to divert$ to prv. schools when we don’t fund our PS." -G Hinajosa -TX ST Rep

"TX made great strides this year to remove woke agendas from our classrooms, support students with sp. needs +provide parents access to libraries & curriculum. We won't stop there. To fully empower TX parents, we MUST deliver school choice to every family."🚨 -Gov Abbott

The local meteorologist just asked, with complete seriousness, whether kids still use number 2 pencils. He’s the only one in the studio without kids and they are not letting him get out of this one 😂

Also still 🤯 that we have districts starting today. It’s July y’all. Wtf.

#BackToSchool #Kids #Pencils #SchoolSupplies #Childfree #K12 #PublicSchools #LocalNews

@adoramyers What good would #BookBanning at #PublicSchools by #MomsForLiberty do if #PublicLibraries can still lend them out?

Coming to the rescue of #MaterNazis , #BananaRepublicans are shutting down #Libraries ! 👉 https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/politics/2023/5/5/23711417/republicans-want-to-defund-public-libraries-book-bans

#SaveAmerica from the #MAGA cult of ignorance and hate.

TX: #GOPFascism. Pugh Elem. School in HISD, SUPT Miles worked hard to sell his wholesale campus reform program *NES to a resistant crowd, some holding signs that read “Our Children, Our Schools.” Miles boasted that 57 campuses had voluntarily opted into it: “They love this -That’s why teachers at 57 schools volunteered.” As part of the state’s takeover of HISD—which ousted an elected SB... TEACHERS STRONG-ARMED TO GET ON BOARD WITH HOUSTON SCHOOLS TAKEOVER. #PublicSchools https://www.texasobserver.org/teachers-strong-armed-to-get-on-board-with-houston-schools-takeover/

NC GOP lawmakers have created a cesspool: A NC EDU proposal that didn’t make it to a CMTE as scheduled Wed has riled supporters of trad. PE. Originally, leg. on student searches was the primary issue contained in Sen Bill 90. This week, lawmakers made additions that'd empower parents & could impact whether a SB fires superintendents or docks their pay. Potential impacts on students & parents: access to libraries/ extracurricular activities/MH svs./books🚨 -: #PublicSchools https://www.thecentersquare.com/north_carolina/article_d7143398-2191-11ee-b07e-57a274892317.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share

by @walkerbragman in #ImportantContext:

"Parents Defending Education (PDE) presents itself as 'a national grassroots organization working to reclaim our schools from activists imposing harmful agendas'—namely 'ideologically driven curriculum with a concerning and often divisive emphasis on students’ group identities: race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation and gender.' But the group took hundreds of thousands of dollars from dark money groups and funds associated with influential conservatives who advocate for the privatization of public education."

https://www.importantcontext.news/p/major-grassroots-parents-rights-group

#parents #education #schools #curriculum #DarkMoney #PublicSchools #PublicEducation

Boris Johnson's Rise and Fall Has Perfectly Exposed Britain's Broken Political Culture – Byline Times
https://bylinetimes.com/2023/06/10/boris-johnson-rise-and-fall-has-perfectly-exposed-britains-broken-political-culture/

#Johnson
#UKPolitics
#PoliticalCulture
#Brexit
#BritishPoliticalSystem
#BritishPolitics
#Classism
#ClassDeference
#PublicSchools
#PrivateSchools
#PrivateSchool
#Press
#Access
#Patronage
#Media
#ReesMogg
#Dorries
#DowningStreet
#HonoursList
#PrivilegesCommittee
#BBC
#DailyMail

New Yorker: The Fight for the Soul of a School Board https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-fight-for-the-soul-of-a-school-board #NewYorker #News/Dispatch #PublicSchools #BannedBooks #Education #Missouri

The reason there’s no pushback from the #GOP on #public #school #shooting is that they don’t believe in #PublicSchools.

Every time it happen the perception increases that public school is unsafe. It increases the likelihood that #parents will #homeschool. And the GOP is all about shifting the #burden of #education entirely on parents.

Each shooting is analogous to murdering #socialized education.

The kids are just collateral damage to their goal.

New Yorker: How “Abbott Elementary” Takes On the Charter-School Movement https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/how-abbott-elementary-takes-on-the-charter-school-movement #NewYorker #Culture/CulturalComment #PublicEducation #CharterSchools #PublicSchools #TVReviews #TVShows

A bill that would allow teachers and faculty members in Kentucky’s public schools to share their religious beliefs freely has passed through committee and will head to the House for a full vote.
House Bill 547 follows a United States Supreme Court ruling, which was made after a high school football coach in the state of Washington was fired for insisting on prayer for his players. The state bill will allow for prayer and religious programs at school and school-sanctioned events.
“This is a piece of legislation that will hopefully embolden these Christian teachers, who are not ashamed of their faith, but sometimes out of fear do not say anything about their faith, or hold prayer groups with other teachers,” said HB 547 sponsor, Representative Chris Fugate (R-84).

#PublicSchools

https://www.lex18.com/news/covering-kentucky/religious-freedom-bill-clears-committee-heads-to-the-house-for-full-vote

It’s no surprise Asra (a plot oval operative listed in the previous article 👆🏽) was getting paid by Parents Defending Education as their VP of “Strategy” and is now paid by the International Womens Forum to stir up trouble as a “concerned mom” who isn’t even a current VA parent.

It’s all a grift!

#AntiCRT #CRT #PublicSchools #ParentsRightsIsAScam

https://truthout.org/articles/tax-docs-link-right-wing-parents-group-to-leonard-leos-dark-money-network/

RT @joshcowenMSU
None of the bots/burners set up to harass me can dispute 20 years of research say #SchoolVouchers :

❌ fund 💲 kids mostly in private school already
❌ cause huge academic 📉
❌ discriminate against vulnerable children.

But:
✅ funding #publicschools has generational pay-off

My latest on the news that Florida's Chancellor of Education, Jacob Oliva, is going to Arkansas to replicate for them what Florida is doing to its public schools. #Education #Florida #PublicSchools http://grumpyoldteacher.com/2022/12/29/dont-pass-the-trash/

The guy who co-authored Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s “parental rights” bill was just indicted for fraud, which is fitting given that they have defrauded the public w/ this Christo-fascist “parental rights” scam to destroy public schools. The “parental rights” slogan comes from proponents of private Christian schools & homeschooling—religious zealots who want to dismantle public education to create a Christian “Joshua generation.” #ChristianNationalism #PublicSchools https://www.salon.com/2022/01/12/parental-rights-started-on-the-christian-fringe--now-its-the-gops-winning-issue/

NYT article about groups challenging books in schools with much discussion of Florida. I gifted the article so you can get beyond the paywall. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/12/books/book-bans-libraries.html?unlocked_article_code=cu2tPX0CGHGCovXrFFDiUECZkx5gHqrZtxoQSlrXmr03rK6V67nmXUfS3_MWDoOOGOVB6rwW_iNIEDIqotdRgX6jhAV46hdQECU1JL37KPAkB-PJIjQ9hCBlcfKnfwlKmBDWyb5y0HHPLJoePUDBITL-AM2cWoOYZm73YtZfy6aQaYxJvhp_vV1eh6seX3PSvG2QDnHuvOWCgJIYQr4TOs0pJRkSc1-_WCqoU6B9vtPUBFWESFdMQcpErXeA4GYyerdCb1hxg2X15OyAw_h5GnfkmOuuQrMkwhTgHxN0Nu0sL0NQHO1zDwKAjdbrriXDzuxaA5XxLA2bKvc&smid=share-url
#Education #PublicSchools #M4L #BookBanning #ParentalRights

Peter Greene's weekly collection of education writing is always worth as look. https://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2022/12/icymi-nutcracker-edition-1211.html
#Education #Curmudgucation #PeterGreene #PublicSchools #ICMYI

Peter Greene writes about the culture wars and book banning and who the real target is: "The work of banning books and gagging teachers is really about taking rights from students."
#PublicEducation #Education #CultureWars #PublicSchools https://progressive.org/magazine/the-culture-war-on-public-education-greene/#.Y45a9B2ZGeE.twitter

Now is your chance to see the legendary Ishmael Reed's new play. The Conductor is a satirical take on the SF School Board Recall. Catch this irreverent, informative, and funny virtual screening before it goes LIVE on stage in Spring 2023 Off-Broadway! #BlackMastadon #PublicSchools #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoBayArea #CRT #IshmaelReed 1/
https://t.co/41MUZmIzqn