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To Cover Up Education Disaster, Illinois Fudges “Proficiency” Standards
Illinois officials have unveiled a controversial new plan to "fix" the state's dismal student performance rates — by lowering the bar for proficiency. This is nothing more than a deceptive tactic to mask a growing educational crisis.
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Tagged Hannah Schmid, Illinois Policy Institute, Illinois Superintendent, Katy Brown, Mary Beth Canty, National Assessment of Educational Progress, proficiency standards, Tony Sanders, u.s. department of education
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It Is Time to Exit Illinois Public Schools: A Businessman’s Perspective
Business leaders are tasked with developing and executing strategies that lead to desired results, namely, to maximize shareholder value in a manner that is honest, moral, and upright. Successful businesses measure their performance in a myriad of ways and use these results to implement changes, if needed, to achieve desired results... Why is this not the case for the Illinois Public School system?
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Tagged Common Core, Comprehensive Sex Education, Critical Race Theory, Illinois Public Schools, proficiency standards, SB 818, The 1619 Project
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Ten Reasons to Remove your Children from Public Schools
An assault has occurred on parental rights within the public school system. Parents have voiced their concerns across the nation about everything from perverted curriculum to forced masking. If any good came from the pandemic, it is that parents have seen what public schools are doing behind closed doors. This revelation should lead parents to remove their children from the grip of the government-run education system.
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Tagged Bernie Sanders, Biden Administration, Comprehensive Sex Ed, Critical Race Theory, Department of Justice, Engel v. Vitale, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigations, gay pride, Joe Biden, LGBT History Mandate, Marxism, Merrick Garland, National School Boards Association, proficiency standards, public schools, Terry McAuliffe
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Rise of ‘Fed Ed’ Accelerated Demise of Real Education
The U.S. public school system was collectivist from the start, as this ongoing series on government education has extensively documented. But as the feds got involved, it quickly went from bad to worse, with the slow and steady decline in education turning into a precipitous collapse. Today, the schools are a disaster, even by the government’s own measures.
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Tagged John Dewey, National Assessment of Educational Progress, proficiency standards, Robert Aitken, The Epoch Times, Toward Soviet America, u.s. department of education, William Z. Foster
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Special IFI Forum on Education Choice
A recent headline of a Chicago Sun-Times article alarmingly reports that a Chicago Public School watchdog is fielding 3 complaints of sexual misconduct per school day. This comes on the heels of a 2018 Chicago Tribune report that exposed Chicago public schools of having more than 520 sexual assault cases all across the city over the past decade.
According to the Illinois Assessment of Readiness (IAR), only 38 percent of Illinois public school students meet proficiency expectations in English Language Arts, only 32 percent of students meet proficiency expectations in math. This despite the fact that the NEA reports that …
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Tagged Gender dysphoria, Gender Neutral, Howard Zinn, Illinois Assessment of Readiness, intersectionality, Islam, LGBT History Mandate, NEA, proficiency standards, sexual assault, sexual misconduct, Transgender bathrooms
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