Teacher Absenteeism Rates Can Result in Significant Learning Loss

• Teacher absenteeism rates can cause "significant learning loss" to students, according to a report released by the Heritage Foundation on Thursday. 
• A survey of schools across the country found that 72 percent of public schools had higher teacher absenteeism rates than before the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Teacher absences can result in significant learning loss and can have negative impacts on nonacademic and behavioral outcomes for students.
• Parents and lawmakers need to be asking hard questions about whether teachers are taking advantage of the system or if they are afraid to come to work due to violence or a lack of authority in schools, or all of these.

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Democrat Bill in CA Would Mandate Judges to Consider Race in Prison Sentencing

• Considering someone’s race when imposing a criminal sentence is not only unconstitutional it is morally reprehensible.
• Our colorblind constitution requires that everyone be treated equally regardless of their race. 
• Unfortunately, many on the left our pushing these radical policies to combat the supposed systemic racism of our criminal justice system. Everyone should be treated equally under our criminal justice system.

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Reckoning With Black Lives Matter

• Next week marks a decade since Black Lives Matter began disrupting our lives. The media doesn’t mention the group much anymore, mainly to avoid embarrassing evidence of its corruption . But BLM has changed the nation in profound ways, perhaps permanently — and continues to do so.
• This transformation of America was deliberate. The nation’s newspapers robotically speak of a "racial reckoning" following BLM’s founding in 2013, and especially after the killing of George Floyd in 2020, as if this truly was a movement that forced America to deal with its sins.
• In reality, the founders of BLM were hard-boiled Marxists who had been waiting in the wings to revolutionize America for years prior to 2013. Their goal was not the improvement of conditions in black America, but the dismantling of the family, capitalism, and representative democracy.

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