Category: Academic Standards
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Flashback: EBF Analysis from 2017 – Fact Check for CTU and the Educational Industrial Complex in Illinois
Below is an analysis of the Evidenced Based Funding formula that I wrote in August 2017 just after the bill was passed. The EBF had been pushed by the educrats in the state for over three years before its passage. Superintendents lobbied hard for the funding formula, but as one can see now, seven years later, EBF is failing.
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Protesting on the Wrong Side of History
Today’s protestors are on the wrong side of history. What’s worse, they apparently don’t even know their history when it comes to Palestine, Hamas, Israel and even the October 7th massacre by Hamas.
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Illinois’ Obscene Plan to Fund Education Based on Race
Public universities in Illinois are teeing up the next scam in this state. And if it comes to fruition, it is likely they will find themselves embroiled in a lawsuit all the way to the US Supreme Court.
The Illinois Board of Higher Education, progressive Democrat state legislators and university presidents have put together a plan to fund higher education based on race.
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Naperville Legislator Pursues Political Curriculum
As noted in the graphic above, State Rep. Janet Yang Rohr, who represents Naperville, has filed several bills that require certain curricula to be covered in our K-12 schools. Many of these bills are on subjects that can be open to political bias, are age-inappropriate, unnecessary, or all of the above.
Yang-Rohr is arguably one of the more educated members of the General Assembly, and you would think she would know better,
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Downers Grove South Receives Low Ranking from U.S. News & World Report
For the third consecutive year, Downers Grove South High School (DGS) fell outside the top 100 high schools in Illinois as ranked by U.S. News & World Report. DGS was ranked 116th in 2023, which continues to decline since Dr. Henry Thiele was hired as superintendent of District 99 in 2016.
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Teacher Resigns Amid Controversy
No longer are the views of leftist teachers a surprise. They view their publicly subsidized jobs as opportunities to disseminate their moral and political views as objective, inarguable truths. They believe they are entitled to absolute autonomy. They view other people’s children as their own.
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Segregation at Illinois State University and Others
Many Americans were glad to witness the waning of the cultural turbulence that roiled America in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. Racism was diminishing, and the Vietnam War was over. Hardened divisions were softening. But in sullied ivory towers, the revolutionary minds, libidinous bodies, and fevered dreams of leftists without a cause or boundaries began constructing ideas to impose on an unsuspecting nation. Those ideas have coalesced in “wokism,” which has taken root like a noxious weed. And now almost-moribund divisions are springing up everywhere, especially on college campuses.
Across the nation, we are seeing the insalubrious fruits of wokism choking out goodwill, unity, and peace during what should be a joyous graduation season.
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It’s Time to Demand Competence
It’s Time to Demand Competence
Is that really too much to ask from our government?
Is that too much to require from our elected officials?
Is Competence not what we expect in every other aspect of our lives?
Why aren’t the experts called in and listened to when something goes wrong?
