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Education Spending Booms, Results Stagnant
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Dobbs- FBI Director WRAY TELLING TRUMP,
America and Congress To “GO TO HELL”
{ rickwells.us } ~ Lou Dobbs leads off his conversation with Rep Mark Meadows (R-NC) about the developments surrounding the release of the Nunes memo, saying... “This is getting uglier by the moment, when we thought we were on the way to transparency, the release of the memorandum straightforwardly.” Meadows agrees on both counts and points out that Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes is acting in accordance with his “obligation to inform Congress when there has been FISA abuses. And so all he’s doing is following his constitutional duty to let us know about that.” Meadows isn’t surprised that the FBI is pushing back, noting that “They have been stonewalling for a year. They’ve had to come under a subpoena and a threat of contempt to be able to produce the documents and now all of a sudden they’re saying they’re concerned about omissions? Well let’s put all of the documents out there.”... https://rickwells.us/dobbs-fbi-wray-trump-hell/.
FBI Makes Last-Ditch Effort
To Block Release Of Secret Spy Memo
by CHUCK ROSS
{ dailycaller.com } ~ The FBI expressed “grave concerns” on Wednesday over a controversial surveillance memo that could be released to the public this week... In a rare move, the FBI issued an on-the-record statement claiming that the memo, which was crafted by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee, contains “material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.” The four-page memo reportedly alleges that the Justice Department and FBI failed to provide information regarding the infamous Steele dossier in an application for a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant taken out against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page...Why did the FBI try to brock the release? Because the facts are true. http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/31/fbi-makes-last-ditch-effort-to-block-release-of-secret-spy-memo/?utm_medium=email .
EXCLUSIVE: Gowdy Was
Approached For Federal Judgeship
by KEVIN DALEY
{ dailycaller.com } ~ GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina was offered a federal judgeship in 2017... The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. The four-term Republican announced Wednesday that he will retire from Congress, just one day after Judge Dennis Shedd of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals assumed senior-status, a form of quasi-retirement under which judges leave active service while still participating in a handful of cases. The timing prompted speculation that Gowdy, a career prosecutor, would be tapped to succeed Shedd. “He is not planning on becoming a judge,” a source close to the congressman told TheDCNF. “He was approached months ago and turned it down.” The source added that he will return to private practice... http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/31/gowdy-approached-federal-judgeship/?utm_medium=email .
Things Nancy ‘Frau Farbissina’ Pelosi And The Other Democrats Won’t Applaud .
This Sucks! Rep.Trey Gowdy Won’t Seek Re-Election In 2018.
Hawaii Employee Who Sent Out False Missile Attack Notice FIRED.
Amazing Treasures Found by Accident .
Education Spending Booms, Results Stagnant
by Jordan Candler: We’re just a few days removed from National School Choice Week, which has taken on broader significance during the Trump era. Columnist Star Parker wrote recently on this issue and the urgency of school reform amidst horrible proficiency statistics. As Parker notes, America’s financial contribution to education is second to none. Yet none of that additional investment is evident in overall grades. Students here rank 23, 25 and 40 globally when it comes to reading, science and math, respectively. Moreover, she writes, “In the case of our black children, the results are dismal. In the 2015 NAEP math scores, 17 percent of black fourth-graders and 11 percent of black eighth-graders performed at ‘proficient’ levels. In reading, 16 percent of black fourth-graders and 15 percent of black eighth-graders were ‘proficient.’” Minority-filled schools often take the brunt of the effect of our current education system whose structure creates poor results.
However, according to the Cato Institute, “Our education system’s troubles are not confined to low-income districts — America’s students as a whole lag behind many other industrialized nations on international tests. Government expenditures on K-12 education have more than doubled over the last 40 years (adjusted for inflation), and yet U.S. students’ academic performance at the end of high school is flat. Top-down regulations intended to improve quality instead stifle diversity and innovation. And rather than foster harmony, too often government schools force citizens into social conflict.”
This is a despicable return on investment. Making matters worse, the people who justify the status quo are demonizing Education Secretary Betsy DeVos for what Parker describes is her “brutally honest assessment about the state of education in our country.” At least the Heartland, where school choice is proliferating, is on DeVos’ side. Parkes adds, “Today, there are 63 different school choice programs across the nation involving 469,000 individuals, according to EdChoice. But total expenditures on school choice programs are still less the 0.4 percent of the $586.8 billion we spend annually on K-12 education.”
If more of that money can be diverted to school choice efforts — where the results speak for themselves — the return on investment would be so remarkable that education in America as we know it would be completely upended. No wonder elitists are fighting so hard to maintain a system that breeds dependency. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/53802-education-spending-booms-results-stagnant
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