monopoly. that is controlled by teachers unions that donate to democratic party. so of course they don t bring that same energy to the residentially assigned government school system. school choice affects all that. have the money follow the child and less advantaged families access better education as well. national education association on monday recommended teachers include the controversial book gender queer on their summer reading list, the book was featured in the nea great summer read for educators. i got 20 seconds left. if it wasn t obvious by now, the teachers union is an arm of the democratic party, full of money laundering, that they donate 99.9% of the campaign contributions to the democratic party. democratic party goes and pushes for more people into the system which means more dues paying members more revenue that go back to teach his unit back to democrats. complex money laundering scheme more people should figure it
minimizers. they are minimizing the issues. what do you think? it s about control of the government school system. it s crazy. we thought it was enough to indoctrinate the kids but the teachers also. they do the professional developments. a lot of teachers are not cool with this either. they didn t want to go along with it and focus on the basics. the leaderships and teachers unions are more interested in pushing leftous indoctrination. families should push back. they should ban together and form kids unions to push back and fight for the schools to have the basics like math, reading and writing. one parent is doing that. new york post writes the
senior fellow t american federation for children and a major with, major proponent of school choice. those are really harsh words. i mean, to say that it was clear that they were choking the life out of public education is a bold statement. i mean, look, it s ridiculous. only 26% of eighth graders are proficient in north carolina. you d think that the governor would be issuing a state of emergency about the failing government school system. but, no, instead he s issuing this so-called state of emergency over all families, all parents getting more of an opportunity for educational freedom in the state of north carolina. the reality is, this is a state of emergency for special interests who control roy cooper, the teachers unions and the defenders of the status quo. but it is a state of serendipity for parents who want more of a say in their own kids education. charles: we have seen this rise as a political issue. it certainly has played a major role in florida, it probably got youngk
to override the republicans who have all sign on to cool choice in both chambers. school choice in both chambers. charles: also when i see these stories, i think of the bigotry of low expectations in places like north carolina but certainly in big liberal cities like new york city, philadelphia, los angeles where i was just reading 9% of the black sunt students were proficient, only 14% of hispanic students. 75% of the kids, by the way, who go to the public schools there. it really is almost borderline criminality, what we re going t. yeah, it s ridiculous. and in new york they re spending over $30,000 per student in the government school system. it s absolutely atrocious. and the best way out of this for equal opportunity is to give that money to the students and to let their parents decide how to spend it, to fund the student, not the system. allow for more education freedom, more competition. it makes the public schools better too. it s a rising tide that lifts all boats. we ve
spending. reporter: 40 weeks are popular in the rural west but it is picking up in metro areas, texas and arizona. gillian turner, fox news. trace: let s talk about this recent embrace of lower education standards with the coworker of the new book, senior fellow corey deangelis. it is always great to have you on. a look at the whole landscape here, four-day school weeks. getting rid of homework. getting rid of letter grades. it seems like part of the country have just kind of given up on education because they can t find it. i mean, look, it seems like the job, the government school system has become more of a jobs program for adults as opposed to an education initiative for kids. they are going from five days to four kids. does that mean they re going to give 20% of the funding back to the parents? they are missing out on one of those days now. 3,000 per student, give it back to the parents and let them find