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Publications Never lose a debate with a global warming alarmist!   Research & Commentary: Reports Ranking Louisiana’s Public School System Next To Last in Nation Highlights Need for More Education Choice Options in the Pelican State July 29, 2021 On NAEP, Louisiana Students Score 9 Points Below National Average In Math, 7 Point Below In Reading Two new reports ranking state public school systems since the COVID-19 pandemic began have both found Louisiana’s system to rank next to last. Th...

Publications Never lose a debate with a global warming alarmist!   July 15, 2021 Local affiliate Fox 45 News’s ongoing “Project Baltimore” investigation has uncovered that 41 percent of high school students in Baltimore City Public Schools (BCPS) received a grade point average below 1.0, or below a D average, this past school year. Essentially, roughly 8,400 of Baltimore’s 20,500 high school students have GPA’s considered failing. The micro-level results in BCPS are just as horrifyi...

Some of it is policy-related. so in the area of education, for instance, theres specific people who, in my opinion, act as white spectrum -- supremacists because they put their children in private schools and schools that they can afford while they relegate black children knowing that voucher, choice programs have a tremendous impact on black life. theyll relegate black and brown students to those public schools so they can continue to get their funding via the teachers union. so so there are so...

Publications Never lose a debate with a global warming alarmist!   Research & Commentary: Making the Invest in Kids Program Permanent is the Right Way to Go for Illinois May 12, 2021 Program Provided Scholarships For Over 5,500 Students In 2020, With Over 32,000 Still On Wait List A bipartisan group of legislators have introduced a bill to make the Invest in Kids Program, Illinois’ tax-credit scholarship (TCS) program for low-income students which is set to expire in 2022, a permanent progra...

Publications Never lose a debate with a global warming alarmist!   May 6, 2021 Forty School Choice Programs Have Saved Between $12.1 And $27.8 Billion Through 2018 A Working Paper released by EdChoice in March 2021 finds that education choice programs have saved taxpayers between $12.1 billion and $27.8 billion through Fiscal Year (FY) 2018. The Fiscal Effects of Private K–12 Education Programs in the United States, authored by EdChoice’s Director of Fiscal Policy and Analysis Martin Lueke...

Publications Never lose a debate with a global warming alarmist!   May 7, 2021 Education Choice Associated With Higher NAEP Achievement Levels, Higher Gains A March 2021 report from the School Choice Demonstration Project at the University of Arkansas finds that states with higher levels of education choice, or “education freedom,” are associated with higher achievement levels and higher achievement gains on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test, colloquially known as...

Palm Beach County students train to be firefighters, first responders WPTV goes inside Fire Science Academy at Palm Beach Lakes Community High School Learning to fight fires before leaving high school. and last updated 2021-05-06 09:51:19-04 WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Learning to fight fires before leaving high school. Palm Beach Lakes Community High School in West Palm Beach is home to one of two Fire Science Academies in the School District of Palm Beach County, giving students hands-on tra...

Palm Beach County students train to be firefighters May 6, 2021 at 6:01 AM EDT - Updated May 6 at 10:06 AM Learning to fight fires before leaving high school. Palm Beach Lakes Community High School in West Palm Beach is home to one of two Fire Science Academies in the School District of Palm Beach County, giving students hands-on training to become a first responder. "Just something about raising it up, it’s fun," Warren said. The Palm Beach Lakes Community High School senior will become ...

Family of athlete who died suddenly seeks life-saving legislation WAUKESHA, Wis. - Waukesha North High School junior Kai Lermer died suddenly of an undiagnosed heart condition. He was just 16 years old. Now, his family is taking a big step to ensure no parent has to experience a loss like theirs. Lermer died in April 2019 after playing basketball with friends at a park in Waukesha.  "Sudden cardiac arrest is the number one killer of student-athletes," said Michael Lermer, Kais father.  Kais c...

True moderate. kevin kramer showed strong support for president trump. they both criticized the nasty fight over justice brett kavanaughs confirmation. the tpaoeuftiest moment is when kramer went after heitkamp over a controversial ad. >> i still want to get to your thinking when you authorize the ad saying that i voted for a $23,000 raise for myself. that i gave myself a raise. you know thats not true. you know thats impossible. you know thats against the rules. >> reporter: heitkamp did not ba...