NJ Lowering Minimum Passing Score on H.S. Graduation Test

School Districts Nationwide Are Lowering Standards

Instead of lowering standards and passing test scores we need to reform education to have kids do better.

The disease of public education is that every year we spend billions of dollars more than the year before yet kids' reading and math scores are plummeting.

Don't think this is because of the pandemic: NY's average percentage of children in 4th Grade who could read at grade level – or even one year behind – wasn't even 32% ten years ago. It's only dropped even more after Covid lockdowns and remote learning. How low must it go before we insist on a correction? How long can we tolerate this substandard performance?

Here Jill Simonian covers a story for PragerU that NJ is lowering academic standards even more because only 39% of high school students in Jersey are able to pass the graduation test that's been the standard for a very long time.

This performance of our public education system is not acceptable. The answer is to force schools to perform better, and not make it acceptable to be unprepared for life.

The teachers' unions – and all education unions – are fine with this unacceptable and substandard performance. Enough!

Take Action here to let legislators know we won't tolerate it any more.

On 39% of high schoolers in NJ would graduate under prior standards

Is the Georgia Ban on Critical Race Theory Working?

Dr. Quintin Bostic, Content Manager, The Teaching Lab

CRT is banned in public schools. But two entire school districts have it anyway. How?

Quintin Bostic explains the secret: he doesn't call it Critical Race Theory. He calls it Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. This school district likely has an entire DEI department. The end result, more discrimination.

AlertAmerica.News note: why the nonstop push for Critical Race Theory, DEI, the 1619 Project and BLM age-appropriate curricula? Didn't we all learn about slavery, that it was evil, and needed to be abolished. How did we learn that before all this fake new history?

We don't need any of these Communist programs in our schools. The ONLY thing they didn't teach us even 60 years ago: it was the Democrats.

Yes: the Democrats were behind slavery:

They fought a civil war to keep it
Fought against desegregation
Battled the Suffragette movement
to prevent women from getting the vote

The last thing we need is Democrat fake history.

Dr. Bostic: The goal is “to get the kids to influence their parents to make the [ideological] shift too.”

Dr. Quintin Bostic sells his banned Critical Race Theory materials to school districts as DEI.

Mike Pompeo: Randi Weingarten World's Most Dangerous Person

Randi Weingarten, President of American Federation of Teachers. Yahoo News photo.

Head of Teacher's Union Blamed for Awful School Results

Former Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, blasted American Federation of Teachers President, Randi Weingarten, as the most dangerous person in the world.

See his comments here.

Education's Dirty Secret

Never mind the pandemic and lockdowns: public school performance has been a disaster for at least a decade - long before the lockdowns.

In NY nine years ago, as an example, the percentage of kids in 4th grade you could read at 4th grade level – or even a year behind – was barely 32%. That means less than one-third of 4th graders could even read at 3rd grade level.

Would You Fly An Airline That Crashes 68% of the Time?

Of course, not. That's unacceptable performance.

Would you allow a hospital to perform a routine operation if they told you that patients only survive less than 32% of the time? No way.

So how can we accept this horrible performance for our children?

The Teachers' Unions are the Problem

The NY Legislature in Albany is controlled by the teachers' unions. The same unions that negotiate against the State. The same unions that called for extended school lockdowns.

The teachers' unions fight any effort to bring merit into the system. With tenure, it's nearly impossible to fire bad teachers. This has to end.

TAKE ACTION TO CORRECT THIS INJUSTICE

AlertAmerica.News wants legislation passed in each State – and for the Federal Government – that requires 85% of union dues to go to member benefits. And, we want to see payroll deduction of union dues end.

Tell Congress and your State Legislature here in a couple of clicks.

Ideas for Parents and Elected Officials

We have to move to a merit system in public education.

The idea that no teacher can be fired has to end
Schools must aim for 100% of children reading and doing math at grade level
Raises must be based on merit and excellent performance
School choice is a necessity; only competition will push performance up
School reimbursements should be tied to performance. A school with 95% of kids performing at grade level would get 100% reimbursement. The amount of aid would decline if performance is lacking.

Why Are We Dumbing Down Education?

Public Education Banishes Merit – We Need it Back!

Our corrupt public education system is really heading south. The teachers unions are the biggest part of the problem: merit is out. Period.

What we need:

1. Legislation requiring 85% of union dues must go to member benefits. If they can spend tens of millions on radical political candidates... something's very wrong.

2. End payroll deduction of union dues. Why is the employer the collection agent to unions working against them?

3. Tie educator pay to student performance. Go back to 1950's tests to avoid dumbed down tests.

Read: How Extreme Has the Dumbing Down of America Become?

Had enough? Go to our Take Action page and let your State and Federal legislators know this needs to change.

Children are not learning the basics. Maybe we need to go back to 1950's curriculum to go forward.

The Death of Liberal Education and the Birth of the ‘Woke

Broken classroom. Image appears at Frontpagemag.com

Excellent Article by Retired Educator Bruce Thornton

This article appears at FrontPage Magazine online

An Educator Sees the Decline First Hand

"Last fall I taught my last class, ending a teaching career that began in the fall of 1977. During that time I watched as higher education deteriorated under the pressures of leftist ideology, rank careerism, bureaucratic inertia, and philistine utilitarianism. The humanities––English, foreign languages, philosophy, history, the arts––have been particularly corrupted."

Fed Up With the State of Education?

Let your Federal and State reps know that we must take back education. That means getting 'woke' out and actually teaching again.

And it means requiring unions to have 85% of union dues go to member benefits – not campaign contributions for radical candidates.

Payroll deduction of union dues must stop, too. There's no reason for any local, state or Federal government to act as the collection agent for the union

TAKE ACTION

MUST WATCH FOR EVERY PARENT: THE BIGGEST BULLY IN SCHOOL

It's not the mean kid. It's the teachers' unions!

Back in the 1800's, teachers banded together to assure a better standard of living.

In the original cancel culture - the Communist purge in the 1950's - teachers' unions came up with tenure to protect against firing a teacher accused of being a communist.

In the last few decades tenure has made it impossible to fire even terrible teachers. A bad teacher - even one removed from the classroom - may get the same pay as a really good teacher. There's no merit in the system.

It's the teachers' unions that fought to keep schools closed during the pandemic. Teachers' unions control most school board seats. And they donate tens of millions of dollars to radical, communist candidates. This must stop.

WATCH this amazing short documentary from PragerU on the problems with teachers' unions.

After you watch TAKE ACTION and make your voice heard. The AlertAmerica.News Take Action page has an action to request legislation requiring 85% of union due to go to member benefits. And no more payroll deduction of union dues! No government agency should act as collection agent for unions bargaining against them!

Clear here to TAKE ACTION!

School children in class. They've been abandoned and abused by the teachers' unions.

School children in class. The teachers' unions work against kids!

Rep Eric Swalwell Takes the Communist Position on Education

Congressman Eric Swalwell. Still there despite his dalliance with a Chinese spy.

They want total control and indoctrination

BYLINE: Kelly Austin

Despite the upset victory of Governor Glen Youngkin in VA over parent's rights in the education of their children, Congressman Eric Swalwell recently took the opposite position against parents. He wants the people running education into the ground to have absolute and total control. This is exactly what the Communists want here: indoctrination of American school children.

From the Fox News article:

"Swalwell ... mocked the notion of parents making major decisions in the education of their children.

The California Democrat insisted that it is akin to 'putting patients in charge of their own surgeries? Clients in charge of their own trials?' Swalwell declared: 'Please tell me what I’m missing here … This is so stupid."

Parents get informed consent in both representation by their lawyers and in medical treatment. And, they're sick of the indoctrination and poor performance of public schools.

The dirty secret is that for at least eight years barely 32% of 4th Graders were reading at grade level – or one year behind! Educators don't announce that; they just need more and more money every year – a reward for failing performance.

Did parents have a say in performance that was unacceptable years before the Pandemic lockdowns? Wouldn't parents demand better than 32% of the class to be reading at grade level – or one year behind – if they knew the performance was that bad?!?

Would any parent put their child on an airplane if the airline said they only made it to the destination in one piece 32% of the time?

Would you let yourself be admitted to a hospital if they told you that patients only make it out alive 32% of the time? Why must parents accept this sorry, inexcusable performance.

The teachers' unions want amnesty for scores dropping even more! They say we need to recover lost ground. I assure you their recovery goal is to get back to 32%. They should be aiming for 100%.

It's time to TAKE ACTION and let your legislators know - whatever state you're in - that we want to take back education and require that 85% of union dues go to member benefits. No more tens of millions in campaign contributions to radical, communist-leaning candidates. And, no more payroll deduction of union dues.

Read the Fox News story here

Jew Hatred Textbooks Introduced in Newark Grade Schools

“The book is filled with misleading anti-Israel statements and outright lies” – ZOA

"(October 25, 2022 / JNS)

The school board of Newark, New Jersey is drawing attention from Israel advocacy and education organizations as well as parents for adding an anti-Israel book to its mandatory curriculum.

The book A Little Piece Of Ground by Elizabeth Laird was included in the sixth-grade English curriculum for the 2022-23 school year. The book, targeted at young adults, is accused of pushing anti-Israel propaganda and conveying a biased view of Israel to impressionable children."

Continue reading here...

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Education Journal: Updates on our Public Education System

Help Parents and Students Achieve Comprehensive Education Reforms Now!

Public education has been seized by an organized, militant Marxist-Socialist movement targeting our children during the most vulnerable years of their lives. They have implemented a series of social engineered programs that are designed to dismantle our traditional American values and societal norms to erase and replace our American culture in ONE GENERATION.

Radicals are exploiting grade school children knowing a child’s intelligence, emotional stability, and personality are forming through these PRECIOUS early years of development.

Today is the day we advocate on behalf of our nation’s children and our nation’s future!

Help Reform Public Education!

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Jump to our TAKE ACTION page for more ways to stop the madness

Typical Classroom.
It's time to go back to the basics!

Anti-Semitic rot at City University of NY is institutional

Author David Littman notes "Instead of dealing with the rampant discrimination and hate on their cam

This article first appeared in JNS.org on Sep 20, 2022

Littman writes, "(September 20, 2022 / CAMERA) The City University of New York (CUNY) has a serious anti-Semitism problem. This is no secret. Reports of anti-Semitic incidents have been streaming out for years. What is particularly disturbing, however, is the role that has been played by CUNY faculty and particularly the administration.

This was most recently illustrated by the revelation that CUNY’s chief diversity officer, Saly Abd Alla, was assigned to investigate a complaint filed about anti-Semitism notwithstanding the fact that she was previously a “civil rights director” at the Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an organization notorious for its anti-Semitic positionsand anti-Semitic staff."

NY Post photo. Students called Baruch College unsafe for Jewish students.

J.C.Rice

Radical Gender Theory: Infecting More Than 4,000 US Schools

Many of America's school are now pushing the radical norms of gender theory and parents are left won

Article by Chris Rufo for Fox News and appearing on the Manhattan Institute website

Radical gender theory has made sudden inroads in America’s schools.

Many parents have watched in confusion as their children repeat the movement’s slogans and adopt synthetic sexual identities such as "non-binary," "pansexual," and "genderqueer."

The next question for many families is: Where does this surge in left-wing sexual ideology come from?

One answer: from a network of professional activists, who have smuggled university-style gender theory into more than 4,000 schools under the cover of "gender and sexuality" clubs, or GSAs.

This programming is encouraged by the teachers' unions including two of the largest: the National Federal of Teachers and National Educational Association.

Those two unions alone donated tens of millions of dollars to radical Left political campaigns. That's why AlertAmerica.News has Take Actions to request legislation requiring 85% of union due to go to member benefits. You can Take Action in a couple of clicks and let your State legislature and Congress know we want union dues going to member benefits here.

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Gender Theory doesn't belong in elementary schools.

NYC Middle School Teacher Encourages Political Violence

Project Veritas Hidden Video Exposes Radical Indoctrination

We wish this was a rare event. It's not. This is going on daily in schools around the country.

The Marxist/Communist Left has been infiltrating our public school system at every level for decades. It's why students no longer learn that capitalism is a superior economic system that has lifted more people out of poverty, oppression and death than any other. Instead, they learn the 'benefits' of Socialism.

Even worse, as we see in this video kids are taught to become activists and revolutionaries. This needs to stop, but we have a big job in front of us. That's why AlertAmerica.News helps to expose the radical programs in schools today including:

Black Lives Matter Age Appropriate Curriculum
Critical Race Theory often hidden as "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion"
The 1619 Project - false, revisionist history
Gender Identity and Transitioning
Drag Queen Story Hour
Sexually explicit books in school libraries

This programming is encouraged by the teachers' unions including two of the largest: the National Federal of Teachers and National Educational Association.

NYC middle school teacher encourages political violence.

Boys Use "Pedo Database" to Track Teacher's Creepy Behavior

Teacher Made Girls in Class Uncomfortable

For decades one Rhode Island teacher behaved inappropriately to the teenage girls in his class.

Boys noticed the girls were uncomfortable, but complaints to school officials were met with "deliberate indifference."

The teacher was finally escorted out of the school in April and placed on leave. It's not clear whether it's paid or unpaid leave.

Read the complete article...

Teachers' unions do little to champion students, and instead protect the status quo. This is perpetuated by the teachers' unions including two of the largest: the National Federal of Teachers and National Educational Association.

School rooms must be centers of learning and excellence, not pedo behavior towards students.