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Jim Jordan Discusses Why Democrats Need
to Cling to a Vast Russian Conspiracy Theory
by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ It has always been a nonsense claim that Russia “interfered” with the 2016 U.S. election... The political scumbag-James Clapper and scumbag/commie-James Brennan construct of the ICA therein was the thin gruel that provided cover for the media to continue making the claim. Congressman Jim Jordan outlines why democrats must maintain this illusion if they are to retain the public premise:
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How Palestinian Leaders
Sabotage Palestinians' Interests
by Khaled Abu Toameh
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ As Israel continues to study ways of improving the living conditions of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the leaders of the Palestinian Authority (PA) continue to sabotage the interests of their own people... These leaders are opposed to the construction of a new hospital in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. They are also opposed to an Israeli initiative to construct an artificial port off the coast of the Gaza Strip. The PA, in other words, is opposed to any move aimed at alleviating the suffering of its people. Why? Because the PA hates its rivals in Hamas to the point that it is prepared to punish the Palestinians by imposing economic sanctions on the Gaza Strip. These include cutting off payments to thousands of public employees and needy families. Another reason: the PA is strongly opposed to any plan in which Israel and the US are involved to help the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip. As far as the PA is concerned, anything good coming from Israel or the US is actually bad, simply part of a larger "conspiracy" against the Palestinians. The new field hospital in the Gaza Strip is currently being built with the help of Friendship, a US NGO, as well as partial funding from Qatar. The hospital, which is being constructed near the Gaza-Israel border, will provide medical services to thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The construction of the hospital is believed to be in the result of ceasefire understandings reached between Israel and Hamas earlier this year under the auspices of Egypt and the United Nations. The PA, however, has come out against the construction of the new hospital. Some of its leaders claim that it is part of an Israeli-US "conspiracy" to have the Palestinians pass President Donald J. Trump's yet-to-be-announced plan for peace in the Middle East, also known as the Deal of the Century. Needless to say, the PA is not offering any alternative to the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, who are desperate for decent medical care. Fatah, the ruling Palestinian faction in West Bank and headed by PA President Mahmoud Abbas, claimed in a statement that the hospital was actually a US "military base."...
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15241/palestinian-leaders-sabotage .
lowlife-Kamala Harris drops
out of presidential race
By Alex Pappas
{ foxnews.com } ~ California Sen. lowlife-Kamala Harris on Tuesday announced that she is withdrawing from the race for the Democratic presidential nomination... after failing to capitalize on early enthusiasm for her campaign and watching her poll numbers collapse. "In good faith, I can’t tell you, my supporters and volunteers, that I have a path forward if I don’t believe I do," Harris wrote in an email to supporters. "So, to you my supporters, it is with deep regret -- but also with deep gratitude -- that I am suspending my campaign today." An aide said lowlife-Harris informed staff Tuesday she is ending her White House bid. lowlife-Harris entered the race in January as a top contender and had a breakout moment in the first debate thanks to a memorable clash with then-frontrunner loose lips liar-Joe Biden over his record on desegregation busing. But she's struggled to shine through in subsequent debates and has seen her poll numbers plunge in recent months. In November, lowlife-Harris dramatically cut her staff in New Hampshire, the state that holds the first primary in the race for the White House, to focus on Iowa. The lowlife-Harris campaign was also hemorrhaging money, spending more than what was coming in, amid tough media coverage about the campaign's struggles. She becomes one of the biggest candidates yet to drop out of the crowded 2020 primary field, two months before the lead-off Iowa caucuses. Her exit follows the withdrawal of former Texas Rep. socialist-Beto O'Rourke, another Democrat who entered the race to great fanfare but later struggled. Campaigning in Iowa on Tuesday, loose lips liar-Biden said of lowlife-Harris, "I have mixed emotions about it because she is really a solid, solid person. And loaded with talent." As word spread of her dropping out on Tuesday, lowlife-Harris' husband, Douglas Emhoff, tweeted, "I've got you. As always."...
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Netanyahu asks to defer
Likud vote as Sa’ar support grows
By LAHAV HARKOV
{ jpost.com } ~ A Likud central committee vote to cancel the primary for the party list may be postponed at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s request... while his rival Gideon Sa’ar gains momentum in a planned leadership primary. The central committee meeting was set for Thursday, but Netanyahu has asked to delay it because of his trip to Lisbon to meet US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Likud central committee chairman MK Chaim Katz had yet to respond at press time. The only item on the agenda sent to Likud central committee members this week is canceling the primary for the Likud list in case of another election. The decision is expected to pass easily, and is part of an effort by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reassure backbenchers that they will remain lawmakers in the next Knesset, so that they do not break away from Likud and give Blue and White a majority to form a government. Netanyahu met with over 250 central committee members and party activists from around the country at Likud headquarters in Tel Aviv on Tuesday in preparation for the vote, and to bolster his support in light of challenges within the party from a growing group of people who think Likud needs a new leader. “We need to see who the Left wants and know not to put him in charge,” Netanyahu told the activists, according to KAN. Sa’ar tweeted in response to the report that “the slander campaign continues, unfortunately. We will run a different campaign for the Likud’s leadership, a campaign that represents a vision and plans for the future, while respecting the other candidates.” Supporters of Sa’ar in the central committee petitioned Katz, a Sa’ar ally, to set a date for a primary for the party’s leadership, as well. Sa’ar’s office declined to comment on the matter...
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'Educational Equity' — Fairness to Students or Bureaucracy?Robin Smith: In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court rendered a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education that the segregation of public schools was unconstitutional. It also just wasn’t right. While cultural norms dictate a great deal of accepted behavior and, sadly, the racial divide in America was still accepted until the mid-1950s, race-based policy never has been right under our constitutional law or moral standing. Simply, we’re either created equal as the Bible teaches and as our Founding documents declare or we’re not.
Yet a term that’s emerged in recent years — educational equity — implies that, despite decades of school district configurations and pouring over data to create integrated public schools, neighborhood schools are segregated with a climate that produces inequitable results and an environment of unfairness. Never mind the reality that public schools become a reflection of students within a zone or geographic perimeter, often from similar socioeconomic backgrounds.
Students don’t control the professional careers, choices, or educational attainment of their parents. For that matter, neither do teachers, school boards, boards of education, or any other entity of governance.
In Maryland’s Howard County, the efforts to construct educational equity are causing a stir, though not because the individuals opposed are racists, as some might argue. Instead, families want their children to attend a neighborhood school that is within a reasonable distance from home without a great deal of disruption to the daily commute and their peer groups.
Three years ago, Superintendent Michael Martirano offered a plan that would redistrict all 8,000 of the district’s students. But over the last couple of weeks, the Howard County Board of Education voted to approve a redistricting plan for the 2020-2021 school year that will instead reassign about 1,000 of the system’s students.
In response, one parent, Xueying Ni, argued in a WAMU radio interview, “The reason we oppose this is because we are a community-based school. We’re all tied to this school. There is no connection to outside neighbors. All of our daily routines are here.”
That doesn’t sound racist or illogical.
A high-school freshman, Vedant Patel, was quoted in the same piece, “It’s going to increase my commute severely. I’m already having to go around half an hour each day going to school and now it’s going to be at least an hour.”
Again, nothing hateful or racially motivated, right?
But to address overcrowding of some of the 76 schools in the district — where the highest concentration of students who receive free or reduced meals (FARM) are found in 10 schools — a sweeping plan has been presented, debated, and approved by the school board. According to Superintendent Martirano, the new zoning plan is “undoing nearly a decade worth of crowding at many of our schools and advancing socio-economic equity across all schools.”
Fueling the plans proposed as well as the one approved is data illustrating opportunity and performance gaps along with lower graduation rates and poor attendance among Hispanic and black students, in addition to the high rates of FARM entitlements characteristic of the 10 schools. So, the proposed answer is to redistribute students via zoning and busing by demographic data points to equalize, or attempt to standardize, the socioeconomic status of each school.
What has worked before and what exactly is educational equity?
First, the definition. Educational equity implies that fairness will be guaranteed through actions and policies that remove barriers to resources, instruction, and engagement in a school for all children. That sounds terrific and is truly the goal of most school districts, individual schools, teachers, and administrators.
Yet attempts to influence this “fairness” have not fared so well.
Efforts of the Barack scumbag/liar-nObama administration through the Every Student Succeeds Act increased the access to billions of additional funds and grants designated only for schools where larger numbers of students were underperforming, lagging in their graduation or struggling to keep teachers. Title I funding along with programs like Ladders of Opportunity and Promise Zones were deemed a failure, even by the educational experts.
The move to adopt federal standards, Common Core, was rejected in many states as overreaching and taking away local control of schools. While standards are needed to ensure the value of a student’s diploma from state to state, the idea of a one-size-fits-all approach to education was problematic in light of statements from scumbag/liar-nObama’s Equity and Excellence Commission.
From its report in February 2013 to then-Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, the commission opined, “Historically, our approach to local control has often made it difficult to achieve funding adequacy and educational equity.” The suggestion? “Develop policies that give states and school districts incentives to pursue legal and feasible means to promote racially and socioeconomically diverse schools. … The federal government should also continue to support racial diversity as part of a broader equity agenda.”
Hmm. Maybe we overlooked the references to being better prepared academically or even equipped to be gainfully employed due to career readiness and critical learning skills. Nope.
So, the suggestion was to “Establish a process for replacing chronically ineffective school boards with oversight boards or special masters when weak governance is clearly contributing to a district’s persistent underperformance,” ignoring any local elections.
Let’s see, more money poured into education for the last 60 years hasn’t generated a level of greater academic preparation. As a matter of fact, if “equity” of funding was the measured metric, many of these underperforming schools would need to refund the taxpayers for the additional money, resources, and energy allocated to compensate for factors that, in reality, begin in the home.
Suggestions to increase federal control and negate local school districts haven’t been the secret to this fairness, either. But in the WAMU interview, an African-American resident running for the Howard County school board seemed to be onto something. Larry Pretlow noted that students should be able to attend neighborhoods schools of their choosing. “I don’t agree that you should ever make any attempt to balance poverty,” he stated. “[The county] should be working to reduce it.”
What a novel idea! The School Board should focus on the students and schools while the city, county, and state governments should work to improve the infrastructure, get government out of the way of growing jobs and other important aspects of improving a family’s socioeconomic standing.
And, one other parting thought. The same individuals who want socioeconomic equity to ensure educational equity are also the ones who oppose school choice that empowers parents to rescue their kids from underperforming schools.
But, that’s just not fair … to the bureaucracy at expense to the student. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/67083?mailing_id=4699&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4699&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body
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