Plus: What We Do, and Don’t, Know About Omicron Variant
December 8 2021
Good morning from Washington, where educrats encourage school districts to rewrite American history as a long slog against oppression. Case in point, Jarrett Stepman writes: a high school near Washington marked Thanksgiving by smearing the Pilgrims. A leading Senate Republican says the Biden administration needs to get tough with nonprofits that house migrant kids, Fred Lucas reports. On the podcast, we’ve got the scoop on the omicron variant of COVID-19. Plus: California’s woke new math, Florida’s brand of self-reliance, and a presidential panel’s lame Supreme Court report. Eighty years ago today, 24 hours after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt visits the House to address the nation and successfully request a congressional declaration of war.
“The fact that taxpayer money keeps flowing without any guarantee of reforms or commitments to improving facility oversight … is just unacceptable,” Sen. Chuck Grassley says.
The California Department of Education’s changes to its Mathematics Framework would include “supporting equitable and engaging mathematics instruction.”
Discussing court packing, the commission’s report compares the size of the U.S. Supreme Court with “constitutional courts” in other countries that have up to twice as many members.
