A national parents’ organization that grew out of the battle against the Common Core State Standards is calling for state legislatures to ban Critical Race Theory (CRT) in K-12 schools. U.S. Parents Involved in Education (USPIE) is urging states to ban CRT, a movement that promotes the interpretation of most aspects of society through the lens of race. The call comes as the Biden education department proposed a rule Monday supporting the development of “culturally responsive teaching” in American history and civics. In its proposed rule, the U.S. Education Department held up the widely discredited New York Times’ “1619 Project” as a model for schools to teach children the United States is fundamentally a racist nation. “The Biden administration’s proposal for American History and Civics Education programs is a federal bribe akin to the Race-to-the-Top grants that landed the failed Common Core Standards in nearly every state,” USPIE told Breitbart News. “The federal grant funds combined with the Civics Secures Democracy Act of 2021 will justify advocates of these harmful programs and make it easier for state and local officials to resist parents and community efforts to block the overreach of the federal government.” As the trailer to its self-produced documentary film “Truth and Lies in American Education” emphasizes, USPIE is specifically opposed to all federal control of education and backs a return to control by parents and local school boards: Stanley Kurtz, senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, wrote at National Review that, when the Civics Secures Democracy Act was introduced in March, the nation entered the “greatest education battle of our lifetimes.” Kurtz sounded the alarm: [W]e are headed toward an epic clash over the spread of uber-controversial pedagogies — Critical Race Theory and Action Civics — to America’s classrooms. I don’t know whether the country will wake up to the danger of this legislation ...
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California Democrats Rig Recall Again with 2nd Bill to Delay Election
California Democrats fast-tracked another bill Thursday designed to rig the recall election process and protect their supermajority status by saving an embattled state senator from a recall effort. The latest attempt to undermine the recall of State Sen. Josh Newman (D-Fullerton) is a bill to allow voters to remove their signatures from the recall petition, which passed both chambers of the legislature Thursday and was immediately signed by Gov. Jerry Brown. Democrats claim voters were tricked into signing by being told they would repeal the new gas tax, but Republicans are crying foul. According to an Associated Press story , Democrats say their new law is about protecting democracy, not theit supermajority: “This bill is not about protecting us,” said Senate Majority Leader Bill Monning, D-Carmel. “It’s about protecting the fundamental democratic right of a voter to be informed honestly and truthfully with what they sign and ensuring they have recourse in the event they find that they were deceived.” Republicans have been working tirelessly to recall Newman ever since he cast a decisive vote to increase the gasoline tax y 12 cents. Democrats have attempted to obstruct, delay and rig the recall election by any means necessary — including sneaking an amendment into the state’s budget bill to delay the election until November 2018, which was later struck down by a judge. Later the state’s Democrat-controlled ethics watchdog panel voted to allow elected officials to transfer unlimited amounts from their massive war chests to Newman’s recall defense. The California GOP has staked its comeback on the fight over the gas tax, putting millions into the recall effort, which looked like a sure thing until eight Republican legislators voted for a cap-and-trade bill that will raise gas prices between 63 and 73 cents per gallon, according to the nonpartisan Legislative Analysts Office (LAO). This latest delaying tactic could push the recall ...
Sanders, Jayapal introduce bill to make college tuition-free for many Americans
Sen. Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders Newsmax host: Jury decided to 'sacrifice' Chauvin to the mob Lawmakers react to guilty verdict in Chauvin murder trial: 'Our work is far from done' Senate confirms SEC chief Gensler to full five-year term MORE (I-Vt.) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal Pramila Jayapal Biden angers Democrats by keeping Trump-era refugee cap Omar: 'Shameful' Biden reneging on refugee promise Biden rebuffs Democrats, keeps refugee admissions at 15,000 MORE (D-Wash.) introduced legislation on Wednesday to make college tuition free for many Americans, a policy that would be paid for by a tax on Wall Street. The bill would make community college tuition-free for everyone and four-year public colleges tuition-free and debt-free for students from families making up to $125,000 per year. "In the 21st century, a free public education system that goes from kindergarten through high school is no longer good enough. The time is long overdue to make public colleges and universities tuition-free and debt-free for working families," Sanders said in a statement. ADVERTISEMENT Jayapal, who chairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus, added that the bill would "free students from a lifetime of debt, invest in working people, and transform higher education across America." The bill would also allow students from families who make up to $125,000 per year to attend private, nonprofit minority-serving institutions tuition-free such as historically Black colleges and universities. And it would double the maximum Pell Grant to $12,990, which can be used for living and nontuition expenses, and would expand eligibility to "Dreamers," immigrants brought into the country illegally as children. The bill would be paid for by a tax on some Wall Street trades. Sanders said he would separately reintroduce a bill, known as the Tax on Wall Street Speculation Act, on Wednesday. It would put a 0.5 percent tax on stock trades, a ...
Report: Florida’s Transgender Sports Ban Expected to Fail in GOP-Controlled Senate
State Lawmakers in Florida are poised to reject legislation that would put in place a law to protect female athletes from competing against biological men who consider themselves transgender, according to Politico . The bill specifically would athletes must participate in K-12 and college sports according to their biological sex. “Ding dong the witch is dead,” Democrat Sen. Janet Cruz tweeted ahead of the expected vote. ”Rip Transgender bill.” Ding dong the witch is dead. Rip Transgender bill! pic.twitter.com/RYYMzbBuqe — Janet Cruz (@SenJanetCruz) April 20, 2021 The Politico report said: The issue was magnified last week when the NCAA put states like Florida on notice just before the Florida House voted for the measure, warning that locations that don’t treat all student athletes with “dignity and respect” could be ineligible to host future championship games. A top Senate panel on Tuesday put off considering the ban, a move that signals the upper chamber is reluctant to move forward with the bill. The proposal’s sponsor, powerful Senate budget chief Kelli Stargel, said her attention will be on finishing the state budget with less than two weeks left in session. its transgender sports bill , dubbed the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, on April 14 by a 77-40 mostly party-line vote, with all but one Democrat opposing. “Right now, my primary focus as Appropriations Chair is our constitutional responsibility to pass a balanced budget,” Stargel, a Republican who represents Lakeland, said in a statement to Politico. “And in a time-limited environment, I don’t know that we will have sufficient time to revisit SB 2012 this session.” Those who support the bill said it is necessary to protect discrimination against females based on their biological sex, in this case, being forced to compete against men in sports. The protection is guaranteed under the federal Title IX statute, which President Joe Biden expanded in his early days in office ...
Tucker Carlson: Maxine Waters shows her true beliefs once again
close Video Tucker: Maxine Waters believes in mob violence for political ends 'Tucker Carlson Tonight' host explains how the left relies on 'intimidation' to get what it wants Closing arguments in former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin's murder trial concluded Monday. Now, Americans have heard quite a bit about George Floyd over the last year and formed their own opinions, but most still cannot say with any specificity just how he died. That, of course, is the essence of the whole story, how Floyd died. So the closing arguments are a chance to assess actual evidence in the case. You would think that would be good news -- more facts, which we could always use. But no, said the media, facts no longer matter, not when BLM's founding myth is at stake. Evidence only counts in countries that have due process, something that they are now telling us is an ugly relic of institutional racism. When unpopular people seem guilty, you just go ahead and punish them. That's the new rule. Years ago, we called this lynching. Now we call it equity. CNN's chief legal analyst, a Princeton graduate called Laura Coates, explained this Monday morning on Twitter. "Defense begins the closing by defining reasonable doubt, not with why #DerekChauvin is innocent," she tweeted. "Think about that." Well, as it happens, we have thought about that. We've thought about it because that is the core principle of our entire justice system in the United States. You are not required to prove your innocence. That's China. In the United States, the government has to prove your guilt. If they can't prove your guilt, they have to let you go. That's the American system. There's no other system that you would want to live under, but then you're not Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif. Waters has never believed in Western justice. For decades, she supported the totalitarian government of Cuba, which replaced jury trials with summary mass executions ...
