What actually happens to the money in a school board? Fortunately for us, Stockton Unified is here to tell us. The school board in California has a budget of $859 million and expects to be in a $30 million deficit next year. One of the reasons for this might be the idea of buying air filters from a company not qualified to install air filters in California. That’s $7.3 million up in smoke. That’s not the only thing, of course. It costs more than $2 million to pay the 14 “district executives” employed. That’s also not the only thing. In fact,…
Author: Tim Worstall
As when we investigated CRT being taught in Ohio, in Idaho, we found much the same thing in Texas. The education bureaucracy, the school districts, take little to no notice of what the legislature, the law or even the parents say and carry on as they wish. We can also approach this same point from the other direction. Why not look at where people complain about these laws? What do they publicly say they’re doing in the face of these insistences? Some media outlets are sympathetic to, supportive of, these educators. So when teachers or bureaucrats are speaking to reporters they think will be…
Educational Savings Accounts just failed in the Virginia General Assembly. Four varied bills each failed at different stages in the legislature. This is not good, but it’s also not the end of the process toward school choice. ESAs, vouchers and other types of school choice have failed to become law in other states before now and later gone on to victory. We’ve even been told that our work where at Accuracy in Media has aided that process. For it’s when people find out how the educational bureaucracy really works that they shift their votes to school choice. Sure, we can say…
Florida doesn’t ban books. No, no matter what you think you’ve heard, or what people tell you, books are not banned in Florida. Nor are they – except subject to the usual federal laws about terrorism and so on – banned anywhere else. Again, this is despite what Teen Vogue and all the other woke and progressive outlets try to tell us in a piece headlined, “Best Banned Books by Black Authors, From Toni Morrison to Angie Thomas,” subhead “Check this out.” There’s a certain logical problem with that idea. If books have been banned, we can’t check them out, can we?…
In a new piece, BuzzFeed News reports that making surgical treatments for trans children illegal is a vile denial of human rights and all that is good. Back in September, BuzzFeed News told its readers that even claiming that there were surgical treatments for trans children was a vile denial of the truth. One of those two statements must be wrong – if something doesn’t happen, then there’s no problem with it being illegal. The only thing that has changed is what non-woke people are doing and saying. That’s enough to entirely flip the story from the woke and progressive media. BuzzFeed News’ new…
It is possible to beat the educational bureaucracy; it is possible to free the school system from its control. Iowa just became the third state to do this when Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law “The Students First Act”. The Iowa House passed it 55 to 45 on Monday and the Senate 31 to 18 early on Tuesday morning. Reynolds has already signed it into law. What was House File 68 now funds students through the school system rather than the school system itself. That’s the one single action required to bring freedom to the education system. Parents now decide where to send their child to…
Teen Vogue once again is misinforming its readership and promoting policies without backing them up with solid reporting. The Federal Trade Commission, led by Lina Khan, is proposing that non-compete agreements should be banned. The truth here is a little more complex. Non-competes have, arguably, got out of hand. Hamburger flippers should not be asked to sign them, it is a restraint of trade if it is insisted they do. On the other hand, sometimes they’re necessary – when the guy at Coke finally gets told the secret recipe seems fair enough that he can’t quit and go to work…
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a great man, no doubt about that. Also on the right side of history. However, those two points also mean that everyone with an axe to grind these days tries to co-opt his memory and assert that his ideas were the same as theirs today. This is not necessarily true. One example is from NowThis News and in this video. “I have a dream that my 4 little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” This quote…
Teen Vogue pushes very heavily on its readers on the subjects of trans legislation and critical race theory. The magazine claims that its mission is to “Educate the influencers of tomorrow.” This is different from what they’re doing here, which is to demand adherence to the extreme end of the ideological spectrum. This goes far beyond education, or even just influencing – this is an insistence that there is only one way of thinking about these things. For example: “They have introduced and in some states passed legislation that bans transgender girls from sports, which legalizes discrimination based on the…
In a new piece, Gizmodo creates its own disinformation while reprimanding others for spreading disinformation. The problem is about Damar Hamlin and what people are saying about his collapse. Some are suggesting that it’s all a result of the vaccine. Others are pointing out that cardiac arrest as a result of a severe blow to the chest does indeed happen. Rarely, but it does. Where Gizmodo goes wrong is in this piece, headlined, “Tucker Carlson Uses Damar Hamlin’s Collapse to Spread Vaccine Disinformation.” “Prominent right-wing pundits and social media influencers have used the NFL player’s health emergency to further anti-vax rhetoric,”…