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Former Chicago mayor and Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel penned an Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal titled “Democrats Need an Education Reset” In that Op-Ed, Emanuel notes that for years that in polls, the party of education was always the Democrat party by more than 14 points and this tide has turned due to some things like the focus on gender and a conservative push to put children in schools following Covid and a demand for accountability, rather than a democrat blank check on education with no results. Rahm points out that:
“We’ve become so obsessed with bathroom access that we’ve ignored classroom excellence. America has lost the plot. Democrats need to refocus on the fundamentals in the elementary years—when it comes to high school, we need to be pursuing fundamental reform.”
Emmanuel cites the Nation’s Report Card on education results throughout the country and reading and math scores are below their 1992 numbers and says that this failing report card on education “should have lit Washington ablaze.”
He goes on to state that “Few things are more important than ensuring every American student can read by third grade and do basic math by eighth” and the democrat method of throwing money at it is not working as Democrats have “written too many blank checks—particularly following Covid—without ensuring results or accountability for the investment”.
Emmanuel blames the “the past five years debating pronouns without noticing that too many students can’t tell you what a pronoun is” and that bathroom access has replaced “classroom excellence”.
While Government cannot realize their failing report card (or take accountability for their failures), parents clearly see the immediate failures of education. By not returning to the classroom as soon as practicable after Covid was over, these delays, especially in Blue States was demonstrated by a lack of leadership. It has had everlasting developmental delays in our children.
Rahm goes on to say “Education reform is the seed corn of economic prosperity. America’s growth following the Civil War was born in large part from Washington’s investment in land-grant colleges. Early-20th-century growth flowed from the universal high-school movement. In the postwar era, the GI Bill was economic jet fuel. After Sputnik, new investments in science and technology were the key. But America’s high-school model hasn’t changed in 100 years, and other elements are proving hopelessly out of date. Facing the specter of China’s growth and aggression, we need to mark the next historic reform era—today”.
In this series of MALA - Making America Last Again, the Democrats are failing and this is pointed out in Education by Rahm, a Democrat who considers his “proudest achievement as Chicago’s mayor was turning a public school system once labeled the nation’s worst into one that Stanford researcher Sean Reardon described as “dramatically outperforming not just the other big poor districts, but almost every district in the country.” We drove up graduation rates and test scores by focusing on the fundamentals. The teachers union brass disagreed with my approach. That’s fine—the results speak for themselves.”
As we have previously written, by failing our children in education, the liberal democrats of today have screwed up education such that they are the real party of racism by keeping our children down. See Article [ [link removed] ]
They are jeopardizing the future of our country by such a colossal systemic failure by keeping inner-city children down.
We are also seeing this in the race for Mayor of New York with Mamdani, the likely future mayor of NYC, who wants to perpetuate this education foley by eliminating gifted and talented programs. Those children that earn those seats at such schools (and are not given those seats) have a real chance for success.
The Democrats need a return to more leaders like Rahm Emanuel, a Democrat from a bygone era of what was a sensible party who is shining a light on the key educational failure of the modern democrat party and even challenged the unions when he implemented change in Chicago.
In Connecticut, the educational system is plagued by many of the issues that Rahm Emanuel raises, including the delayed opening of the schools during COVID at the insistence of the mighty all-powerful teacher’s unions that are a major political machine for the democrats that run the Constitution State. There is certainly more focus on pronouns and less on education here in Connecticut and in Mamdani’s Manhattan.
Connecticut Democrats have been cutting the blank checks, the cost per student keeps rising, schools are built way over budget and we are not getting the results.
Bridgeport CT is one of the lowest ranked systems in the state. In a Democrat controlled city, rife with political corruption is failing the children and depriving them of the opportunities that a quality education would offer. Our economy is based on the concept that competition is the best option for quality and value. The Teacher’s Union has had a noose over the Connecticut Democrats so that they perennially oppose school vouchers, which would give parents the choices and a future for their children.
Competition would also force the public schools to shape up and do a better job. The future of our country and our democracy depends on fixing our broken education system. The priority needs to be quality education that prepares our children to function in a 21stCentury economy and to understand why American Democracy is so special and worth preserving. We should take a few plays out of Rahm Emmanuel’s playbook for our children to ensure a brighter future.
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