Unprecedented federal spending on education is a swindle of epic proportions.
As reported by the estimable Just Facts, federal, state, and local governments in the U.S. spent $1.02 trillion on education in 2019. This breaks down to $7,945 for every household in the country. It’s worth noting that these figures do not include land that is purchased for schools and other facilities, some of the costs of durable items like buildings and computers, and unfunded liabilities of post-employment non-pension benefits (health insurance e.g.). Here in California, when all costs are considered, the state spends over $20,000 per pupil.
But for Joe Biden, a trillion isn’t nearly enough. In March the President, or whoever is handling him these days, rolled out a $1.9 trillion “federal relief package” which includes $126 billion for schools. What the teachers unions and its allies in the media call an “investment” is really nothing more than the ongoing pillaging of taxpaying Ameri
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky earned her MD from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, was the chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital, and sheâs served as a professor at Harvard Medical School. Yet now that sheâs leading the Centers for Disease Control, which is really putting the emphasis on
control over much of American life during the ChiCom Virus pandemic, what seems to matter most is Walenskyâs union connections.
Our Louis DeBroux related just yesterday the scandalous reality that the CDC issued edited school guidelines that, in some cases, are nearly verbatim wording from communications with representatives of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). This collusion isnât about public health or science; itâs about union demands. And Walensky was directly involved, even reversing herself on previous statements in order to accommodate.
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The White House press briefing returned on Tuesday following a week-long hiatus and, with plenty to talk about, Fox News’s Kristin Fisher burst out of the gate and asked Press Secretary Jen Psaki whether teachers unions hold sway over CDC recommendations for school reopenings as well as what the White House thinks Americans should be allowed to do once vaccinated.
In the first briefing since Biden’s address to a joint session of Congress, Fisher cut right to the chase as the fifth reporter called on, asking whether the CDC or the teachers unions are in charge of health policy for schools: