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3) University Professors Are the Largest Supporters of Biden
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No surprise here. It's the elites vs. regular people.
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4) In New York More Money for Government Schools = More Mediocrity
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Progressives always tell us public education is underfunded and that if we only spend more we would get better results. When is that going to happen?
A case in point: the New York state legislature is now debating tax hikes to pay for calls to spend more on education. The New York State United Teachers Union has launched a “Fund Our Public Schools” campaign demanding that the 2024–25 state budget include $419 million dollars to correct “underfunding.”
The unions inhabit an alternate universe. New York’s K-12 spending tops that of all states and the District of Columbia—fully 85 percent above the national average. The education spending gap between the Empire State and the rest of the country has more than tripled over the past 20 years.
Teacher salaries in New York are the highest in the country. They’ve increased by 73% over the last 20 years and now AVERAGE over $90,000 a year.
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What are parents getting for their tax dollars? How’s this for a scandal? No one really knows. When standardized test results were finally released last December, state officials had lowered the definition of “proficiency” thus making it impossible to know how district outcomes have changed.
In addition, New York’s state allows so many students to opt out of testing that a former analyst with the New York City Department of Education, says the state’s tests are “virtually useless” as a gauge of student performance.
So in the state with the highest public school expenditures in the country, there are no cost controls, little transparency, and few ways to know how kids are doing. That's called a cover-up.
To paraphrase Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men: “You want the truth. You can’t handle the truth.”
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5) If Not for Double Standards, Democrats Would Have No Standards at All
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We are in no way apologists for the disgraced liar George Santos, but here’s some food for thought from CTUP board member John Childs:
Santos was expelled essentially for lying on his resume. He made false claims about his academic achievements (plagiarized Biden?) and his work experience, a phantom job at Goldman Sachs.
Elizabeth Warren lied on her resume claiming Native American ancestry. This opened a lot more doors than a fictitious tour at Goldman Sachs. But she’s still in the Senate.
Adam Schiff was outed lying frequently about important matters of state. He never apologized, never explained, and was never expelled.
Eric Swalwell succumbed to yellow fever and slept with an admittedly irresistible Chinese spy. Yet Nancy Pelosi didn’t even kick him off the House Intelligence Committee, let alone call for his expulsion.
Senator Menendez has been credibly accused of assisting a constituent and foreign government in exchange for large sums of money and, hedging the dollar’s demise, some gold bars. Yet so far nary a word about removal except from Senator Fetterman, the emerging court jester of the Democratic Party.
We would add to the hypocrisy train that Joe Biden illegally stored confidential/classified national security documents in his garage and yet the Democrats are shouting "Four More Years."
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ERRATUM: We were deluged with comments about our Friday Hotline from eagle-eyed readers. We wrongly referred to Jane Byrne as "the Chicago mayor who got tossed out of office for failing to shovel the snow,” when in fact it was Michael Bilandic's snow removal failure that got him tossed, and Jane Byrne was his successor. Thanks to all for correcting us.
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