POLITICAL NEWS Here v.10

Public School Districts Begin Closing Schools After Losing Nearly 2 Million Students During The Pandemic:

Americans are pulling their kids out of public schools.  Between 2020 and 2021, almost 2 million students stop attending public schools.  Public schools in the U.S. have lost more than a million students since the start of the pandemic, prompting some districts across the country to close buildings because they don’t have enough pupils or funding to keep them open.

The school board in Jefferson County, Colo., outside Denver, voted in November to close 16 schools. St. Paul, Minn., last summer closed five schools. The Oakland, Calif., school board last February voted to close seven schools after years of declining enrollment and financial strife.

Declining birthrates, a rise in home schooling and growing competition from private and charter schools are contributing to the decline in traditional public school enrollment, according to school officials.

Anyone who can is pulling their kids from public schools.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/public-school-districts-begin-closing-schools-almost-2-million-students-left-pandemic/

Where my daughter teaches, the district wants to close three elementary schools.  Of course, a lot of parents are angry that their neighborhood schools that perhaps their children could walk to will be closing and kids will have to attend schools farther away.  In California, we don't have school buses, except the "short buses" for special-needs children.  Most parents in the suburbs drive their kids to school and back every day.

I asked her why they will be closing those schools and I believe she thinks it's because of the proliferation of charter schools.

It's also reported that so many kids have been taken out of the public schools that, schools are having to close or merge with other schools to fill the seats! :good:

'That was easy, huh?' Rep. Kevin McCarthy becomes speaker of the House:

McCarthy vowed that among the "very first hearings" the new Republican-controlled House would conduct would relate to the crisis at the U.S. Southern border and that he and his fellow Republicans would soon vote to "repeal funding for 87,000 new IRS agents." According to the Daily Mail, he likewise promised:

restoring the one-member "motion to vacate" the chair rule, which would allow a single representative to introduce a resolution to oust the speaker, should he fail to live up to his promises;
four seats for Freedom Caucus members on the House Rules Committee, which controls which legislation comes to the floor for a vote;
a vote on term limits for both representatives and senators;
transferring the power to determine committee leadership to committee members themselves and away from party leadership;
and fiscal responsibility.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/that-was-easy-huh-rep-kevin-mccarthy-becomes-speaker-of-the-house

Trump Campaign: Schools that Push CRT and ‘Gender Insanity’ Will Lose Federal Funding:

Schools that embrace Critical Race Theory (CRT) and “gender insanity” will lose federal funding, President Donald Trump’s updated campaign website states, vowing to protect parental rights at the federal level.

“Now, Joe Biden and the radical left are using the public school system to push their perverse sexual, racial, and political material on our youth,” Trump’s campaign website reads.

“President Trump believes that every parent in America must be empowered to opt out of this indoctrination, and send their child to the public, private, charter, religious, or home school of their choice,” it continues, explaining that Trump will also keep men out of women’s sports and work to stop teachers from spreading radical gender ideology in classrooms.

“No teacher should ever be allowed to teach transgender to our children without parental consent. Schools that push critical race theory, radical civics, and gender insanity will lose federal funding,” his campaign website continues.

“We will rescue our public schools from the Marxist teachers’ unions and liberate our children from the corrupt education bureaucracy,” it adds.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/01/07/trump-campaign-schools-push-crt-gender-insanity-will-lose-federal-funding/