Equal protection in school admissions in front of High court

Supreme Court takes Maryland magnet-school fight over race in admissions

The Supreme Court agreed to hear a Maryland magnet-school admissions challenge that critics say elevates Black and Latino students over (Asians and Whites) others in violation of the 14th Amendment.

On Monday the justices took up an appeal from the Association for Education Fairness, which is trying to revive its lawsuit against the Montgomery County Board of Education over how students get into selective middle-school programs.

The case centers on STEM and humanities magnet offerings at four middle schools in Montgomery County, Maryland, a large and diverse suburb of Washington, D.C. Challengers argue the county’s lottery-based entry rules, and an earlier process the district later dropped, were built to raise Black and Latino enrollment and therefore violate equal protection.

NBC News reported that a federal judge in Maryland and the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals both sided with the school district. The high court is now stepping in on what is described as a narrower technical question: what evidence the challengers must show to keep their case alive. The justices are not immediately set to deliver a broad constitutional ruling on the merits.

The county’s magnet seats are limited and competitive. When a public school system designs admissions to reshape racial outcomes, families who believe their children are disadvantaged have a direct stake.

Asian parents and students have repeatedly been on the losing end of these “diversity” adjustments in elite K-12 programs across the country. This Maryland fight fits that pattern, even if the immediate question before the justices is procedural.

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The 2011 Obama Letter That Gagged Every School District in America

Obama Kept Your School District in the Dark for 15 Years and Chip Roy Just Found the Memo

Your kid's school cut art class to stretch its budget while nobody was allowed to count who was sitting in the classroom.

Now Texas congressman, Chip Roy, has the memo that made that silence federal policy.

He just sent it to the two people who can kill it – and the clock is ticking before Washington goes back to pretending it doesn't exist.

In May 2011, Barack Obama's Department of Education sent a letter to every school district in America. They called it civil rights guidance. It declared that the immigration status of a student – or their parent – was "irrelevant" to their enrollment in public school.

The Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates it costs public schools just over $78 billion annually to educate the limited-English-proficiency student population – the vast majority of whom are children of illegal immigrants.

$1.9 billion – what illegal alien enrollments have cost Texas taxpayers alone. The Heritage Foundation calculated that in just four states – California, New York, Texas, and Arizona – absorbing a single year's influx of migrant children into public schools cost nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars.

Virtually the entire bill falls on state and local taxpayers.

Not Washington.

You.

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DOJ cracking down on Tuition discounts to Illegals

Kentucky Ends In-State Tuition Discounts for Illegal Immigrants Following DOJ Lawsuit Led by Pam Bondi

Imagine a basketball game where the referee only calls fouls on the home team while letting visitors elbow, shove, and travel their way to easy baskets. The crowd watches in disbelief as their players get benched for minor infractions while the opposing team plays by entirely different rules.

That’s exactly what’s been happening in America’s education system, where hardworking citizens and legal immigrants pay full price while those who broke our laws to get here receive special discounts courtesy of taxpayer generosity.

Across the country, Democrat-run states have been quietly rigging the system, offering in-state tuition rates to illegal immigrants while forcing legal foreign students with valid visas to pay out-of-state prices that can be three times higher.

Kentucky was one of these states, charging international students who followed every rule the maximum rate while subsidizing those who entered illegally. Your tax dollars were literally rewarding lawbreaking over law-abiding behavior. (And they wonder why we’re angry?)

The Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education had been operating this scheme through an administrative regulation that directly violated federal law.

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California's Dangerous Trafficking bill AB-495

Prominent Christian pastor warns families they may need to grab children and FLEE California!

Democrats' plan would be a dream 'come true' for any 'human trafficker, pedophile, and kidnapper'

Despite California's far leftist agenda that involves major outreaches to restrict religious rights, eliminate the benefits of being a family, force the ideals of transgenderism on innocent young children, weaponize the government against conservatives and Christians, and more, there still remain families.

But that might be changing, after Jack Hibbs, the prominent American pastor, founder of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills and host of "Real Life with Jack," warned them in a rally in Sacramento that a new bill being considered by majority Democrats would allow just about anyone to take control of children belonging to other families.

AB 495 would unintentionally give access to decisions about children’s education and healthcare to ill-intentioned adults without their parents’ knowledge.

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Jefferson’s education built America’s foundation of freedom

Thomas Jefferson would be horrified by what America’s woke universities have become

The founding fathers fought a revolution to create a nation of free thinkers.

Now America’s universities are churning out ideological robots. And Thomas Jefferson would be horrified by what America’s woke universities have become.

When Thomas Jefferson sat down to write the Declaration of Independence, he didn’t just pull those revolutionary ideas out of thin air. The concepts that launched the American experiment came directly from Jefferson’s college years at William and Mary, (where my Mother went to college) where he studied under Dr. William Small from 1760 to 1762.

Dr. Small didn’t teach Jefferson to hate America or divide people into victim groups. Instead, he opened Jefferson’s mind to Enlightenment philosophy, natural rights, and the radical idea that people could govern themselves.

Jefferson himself said those college teachings "probably fixed the destinies of my life."

That’s what real education looks like – expanding minds, not closing them.

The founding fathers would be shocked to learn that the institutions they created to preserve liberty have become the biggest threat to American freedom.

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Democrat Congressman taking his Hate to a whole new level

Hank Johnson, a Democratic congressman from Georgia’s 4th District

recently made a comment that was, stupidity-wise, on par with his 2010 statement about the island of Guam potentially capsizing if too many Marines were placed on one side.

During a virtual event hosted by the progressive group Our Future First on March 4, Johnson told Reps. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), Robin Kelly (D-Ill.), and others that President Trump’s education policies, specifically his plans to "defund" public schools and funnel money to private, "for-profit setups," would harm the black community.

Thi is a ridiculous idea from the get-go when you consider how fundamentally flawed our current education system is.

However, Johnson then took his grievances to a very weird place.

“It’s a recipe to make education unavailable to black people. And where does that then leave us? It puts us back to when America was great, and we were picking cotton and all of it.

They're putting my Latino brothers and sisters who migrate here to do that work because we are not suited intellectually to do it any more, but they would have us back confined to doing that kind of work,” Johnson said.

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Georgia ranked 30th in the nation for educational performance per Wikipedia.

Vivek and our broken Education System

Vivek Ramaswamy pitches his plan to better serve students

Prior to announcing his run for Ohio Governor, Vivek Ramaswamy was busy saving hardworking Americans money alongside Elon Musk as one of the co-chairs of President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

While Ramaswamy has taken a step back with his bid to become Ohio’s next Governor, he hasn’t kept quiet on the suggestion front. His most recent looks to add efficiency to education.

• Shut down the U.S. Dept of Education & return $$ to the states
• Enact universal school choice
• Merit-based pay for teachers
• No cell phones in classrooms
• Bring back the presidential fitness test
• Civic education & testing

There’s no silver bullet, but this is a starting point.

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Florida ranks as the number one state in the country for education

And Ron Desantis wants to keep it that way.

Florida is making government schools mission education, not indoctrination

Florida was ranked number one in the country for education by U.S. News and World Report for 2024

Schools have emerged as one of the biggest battlegrounds in the Left’s culture war.

Florida is making government schools mission education, not indoctrination.

And Ron DeSantis uttered four words that sent teachers unions into a meltdown.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has taken a sledgehammer to woke indoctrination in government schools. He led the charge to outlaw Critical Race Theory (CRT), radical gender ideologies, and race essentialism in the classrooms of government schools.

The DeSantis education agenda returned power to parents over their children’s education from government bureaucrats.

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Ron DeSantis prioritizing Education over Indoctrination

The State Board of Governors just handed Ron DeSantis a major victory over the woke agenda in Florida’s public universities

Ron DeSantis showed Republicans how to fight the radical Left’s stranglehold over our educational system.

He is forcing schools in Florida to prioritize education over indoctrination.

And the State Board of Governors just handed Ron DeSantis a major victory over the woke agenda in Florida’s public universities.

“All DEI and CRT bureaucracies in the state of Florida – no funding, and that will wither on the vine,” DeSantis said at the time.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs are Marxist in nature and focus solely on the race and gender identity politics of the radical Left.

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Gen Z's Endocrination to Socialism

Half of Gen Z Supports Marxism/Socialism. Here’s Why.

A new poll reveals the shocking extent of young Americans’ support for communism. However, it also reveals the reasons behind the popularity of collectivism and the seeds of its destruction.

The number of young Americans who have a favorable view of Marxism has increased five-fold in just one year. According to the new survey, nearly one-third of the members of Gen Z – Americans between the ages of 16 and 23 – say “Marxism” deserves our support. The term’s favorability has skyrocketed to 30 percent of Gen Z respondents, up from 6 percent in 2019.

Gen Z’s approval of socialism also creeped up nine points since last year (49 percent favorable in 2020, compared to 40 percent in 2019).

The results come from the newest edition of the “Report on U.S. Attitudes Toward Socialism, Communism, and Collectivism” – which is commissioned annually by the Victims of Communism Memorial (VOC) and conducted by YouGov.

The poll’s results highlight two simple answers: ignorance of socialism and a jaundiced view of the United States induced by critical theory.

They are being taught not to love America and that we are a racist nation. And our education system is  a total failure.

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"Little Red Classrooms"

CCP Caught Secretly Funding America’s Public Schools

China is not only running the Biden family, it is also running our schools.

A new report has surfaced that massive funding in our K-12 schools is coming from China.

Parents Defending Education (PDE), a grassroots organization dedicated to fighting indoctrination in the classroom, was behind the new report.

And the problem is not just that they are infiltrating our schools, but there is an even larger concern of the schools they are infiltrating.

Many of these classrooms are operating in schools near major military bases.

The report traced almost $18 million in funding that was spent in 34 states and 143 school districts.

In other words, they are everywhere. [Fox]

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Trump on Marxist Maniac Universities

If Elected, Trump Announces He Will Seize Endowments From ‘Marxist Maniac’ Universities Who Discriminate ‘Under the Guise of Equity’

Trump’s latest effort to reform education in America comes via a campaign video.

“For many years, tuition costs at colleges and universities have been exploding, and I mean absolutely exploding while academics have been obsessed with indoctrinating America’s youth,” he stated.

“The time has come to reclaim our once great educational institutions from the radical Left, and we will do that.”

LBGTQ Rally in Lake Worth Beach

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Trans community, rallying in LW Beach, vows to withstand new laws

About 100 people walked from Compass to the Lake Worth Cultural Plaza during Friday's March for Queer and Trans Youth Autonomy. They carried trans pride flags adorned with pink, blue and white stripes — a design created by Monica Helms, a trans woman, in 1999.

What they are demonstrating about:

Florida's SB 254 would prohibit anyone under age 18 from undergoing transgender sex-reassignment surgeries or taking prescription-based cross-sex hormones to treat gender dysphoria.

"This legislation sends a strong message that Florida is a safe place to raise children. As the father of four young boys, I know that childhood is as special as it is short. Florida parents are worried about the radical, prurient agenda that has become pervasive across most forms of media, specifically targeting young children.

The Palm Beach Post reports as follows and my explanation in red: SB 254 (Granting courts of this state temporary emergency jurisdiction over a child present in this state if the child has been subjected to or is threatened with being subjected to sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures;) and HB 1421 (gender clinical interventions) enshrine a ban on gender-affirming health care for trans youth into law, including criminal penalties for health care providers who take part in such treatments. The bills also state that a child custody determination can be entered, modified or stayed “to the extent necessary to protect the child from being subjected to gender clinical interventions.”

HB 1069 (revises provisions relating to instruction & materials for specified instruction relating to reproductive health; provides additional requirements for instruction regarding human sexuality; provides district school boards are responsible for materials used in classroom libraries; revises provisions relating to objections of certain materials & process related to such objections; revises school principal, school district & district school board duties & responsibilities relating to certain materials & processes.) and HB 1223 (Requires specified policies relating to person's sex at public K-12 educational institutions; prohibits specified actions relating to use of certain titles & pronouns; & revises requirements for instruction on sexual orientation & gender identity in public schools. referred to Education and Employment Committee) would ban school employees from asking a student for “his or her preferred personal title or pronouns,” and it would prevent school employees from sharing their own pronouns if they don't “correspond to his or her sex.”

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is also working to ban classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in all grades, elementary through high school. The proposal, which would not require legislative approval, is scheduled for a vote by the State Board of Education.

Ron DeSantis, setting the record straight on Black History in Florida schools

DeSantis Sets The Record Straight, Puts Lying MSNBC On Notice

Let’s talk about the media’s unfair treatment of Republican leaders, specifically Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. As we all know, the liberal mainstream media has always been biased against conservative politicians, and their recent attacks on DeSantis are no exception.

Recently, MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell falsely accused Governor DeSantis of prohibiting children from learning about slavery and its aftermath. She insinuated that DeSantis was promoting a biased and racist agenda.

However, DeSantis argues that the state’s educational standards require the teaching of all aspects of black history, including slavery and racial discrimination. Mitchell’s accusations were based on DeSantis’ rejection of an advanced placement African American history course that contained elements of critical race theory (CRT) and queer theory.

Proressives cry "foul"

But they're always crying about something

Leftists Have a Huge Problem With Florida Removing Pornographic Material From the Classroom

Progressives are not happy about Florida’s effort to ensure that small children are not being exposed to inappropriate material in schools.

Ever since the state’s legislature passed the Parental Rights in Education legislation, they have been railing against Gov. Ron DeSantis and Republican state lawmakers, claiming, without evidence, that they are targeting members of the LGBTQ community.

In the latest episode of “Let’s Get Mad at People Who Don’t Want Pornography In Schools,” a Florida teacher was placed on administrative leave after he filmed a series of TikTok videos featuring his students spreading his “pro-pornography for kids” propaganda.

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Scholars Program at Florida Atlantic University

Free tuition, housing, meals and books

FAU program offers Lake Worth Beach students chance of lifetime

Kelly/Strul Emerging Scholars Program provides full scholarships to Florida Atlantic University for first generation, low-income students. The cost of the scholarship is around $100,000. In the context of the Kelly/Strul program, "first generation" is defined as students whose parents did not complete a four-year degree.

Of the 66 students who entered the program since it was created by philanthropists Aubrey and Sally Strul along with FAU President John Kelly and his wife Carolyn in 2017, 22 have graduated, including three from Lake Worth Beach.

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Biden's Education Department Investigation

Investigation LAUNCHED, Top Biden Official Is TARGETED

"Well, the tables have turned.

A group of House Republicans led by House Committee on Oversight and Reform ranking member James Comer (R-KY) and Education and Labor Committee ranking member Virginia Fox (R-N.C.) are out for blood.

They are targeting Biden’s Education Department for diverting COVID funds for CRT training.

As most of you are probably aware, Biden is asking Congress for another stack of cash for COVID and a few more billion for monkeypox.

If the Group of Republicans are correct, that and more could have been pulled from the DoE unused funds.

Instead, the DoE allegedly used the money to fund CRT programs."

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Are we going to have another Democrat campaign regrding COVID right before the mid-terms. Their silliness on abortion is enough without going extreme on everything.

Florida has a student loan debt distinction

Florida outstanding student loan debt, late payments among worst nationally

• Florida student loan borrowers have the third highest outstanding loan balances in the nation, behind only Maryland and Georgia

• The state ranks 18th overall in past due payments, with over eight percent in Florida late by 90 days or more

• Florida is home to more than 2.8 million who have student loan debt, also third highest in the nation

The Biden Administration’s recent announcement regarding student debt relief thrust the topic into the forefront of the news. Under the program, students awarded Pell Grants and who took out loans from the Department of Education will have $20,000 of debt canceled. Those without a Pell Grant will have $10,000 shaved off their outstanding balances.

According to the Department of Education, federal student loans currently total $1.6 trillion. All told, an estimated 45 million borrowers hold federal student loan debt. The average student loan debt among borrowers stands at $36,200. (These are the most expensive states to get a college education.)

Burdened by that much debt, many college graduates are not always able to keep up with monthly payments, but the numbers vary by state. In Florida, an estimated 2,665,400 people have outstanding student loan debt, and of them, 8.1% are at least 90 days past due on payments, compared to 7.5% of borrowers nationwide.

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The Federal government needs to get out of the student loan debt "business."

It's NOT a "Don't Say Gay" law, LGBTQ Activists!

LGBTQ Activists And Elected Dems Pour Out To Protest The NYC Appearance For Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis

A decently sized crowd of LGBTQ activists that was speckled with the elected Democrat New York officials rounded themselves up at Chelsea Piers in New York City in an attempt to try and protest the conference appearance of Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis this past Sunday.

These protestors sported banners and signs that shouted out for the boycotting of the area, seemingly angry about the recent signing by the governor of the Parental Rights in Education bill that blocks the instruction of topics such as gender identity and sexual orientation to children between the grades of kindergarten and 3rd grade.

Along with the protesting of DeSantis concerning the Parental Rights in Education law, quite a few made the argument that the governor should not be allowed to speak at any events during Pride Month. LOL

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