Legislators in the Mountain State buckle to the teachers union. In aggregate, West Virginia’s public schools are not very good. According to the state scorecard, 88 percent of the state’s 116 high schools “do not meet standards” in math. Furthermore, the state’s eighth graders rank 45th nationwide in reading as per the 2017 National Assessment...
California’s government union leaders love their monopoly — their control over government employees, public officials and the public. So by June 27, when the Supreme Court declared in Janus v AFSCME that a “state’s extraction of agency fees from nonconsenting public sector employees violates the First Amendment,” union leaders already controlled the information field. In...
Week 27’s winning picture depicts a TV that not only has features to kill for and a killer price, but also, according to California Proposition 65 actually kills. The winner who was debating whether to show her love by refusing to give her husband his heart’s desire, is Danielle Smith (@mrsnellie08). This is her first win. ...
One of the most frustrating contradictions inherent in the policies being enacted by California’s one-party state goes something like this: We are inviting the welfare cases of America and the expatriates of the world to move here, while simultaneously enacting environmental policies that make it extremely time consuming and expensive to build anything. No wonder there’s a “housing crisis.” Until demand...
Conflating regulation with accountability, teacher union leaders continue their deceptive talking points. While it’s up for grabs who originated the saying, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it,” Alex Caputo-Pearl is certainly one of its modern-day avatars. In a recent Washington Post op-ed, the...
Week 26’s winner is Contessa Mendoza (the_barefoot_Contessa14). Her colorful pen photo wins on all counts – great picture, humorous quip, and highest social impact. Prop 65 does indeed provide a handy excuse for avoiding study, work, cleanliness and even healthy eating. Even going to the gym for a protein shake is dangerous and a cancer...
One of the grievances expressed by the union during their recent strike against Los Angeles Unified School District was that, according to them, charter schools are draining funds from public schools. This assertion, repeated uncritically by major news reports on the strike, does not stand up to reason. Public schools in California receive government funding based on...
Sacramento — The California Board of Registered Nursing, the state agency that regulates nursing licenses and degrees, appears to be imposing caps on the number of nursing students that some private universities can enroll. Such caps go beyond the agency’s apparent statutory authority, but make little sense given California’s growing nursing shortage. Federal data suggests...
American Federation of Teachers demands justice in Saudi Arabia and compassion for the vulnerable in Syria, but in the U.S., it’s a very different story. As a way to show that they are “PEOPLE WHO REALLY CARE,” Randi Weingarten and her cronies at the American Federation of Teachers have been making forays into foreign policy....
“Walk out on the union, not the kids”: A California Policy Center social media advertisement delivered during the Los Angeles teachers strike. Memo to anyone still wondering about the impact of the Supreme Court’s landmark 2018 decision in Janus v AFSCME: Wonder no more. Despite a surging economy, union membership in California dropped by 86,000...
There were several excellent entries for week 25. It appears that delivering meals is a risky business in California – there were actually two entries on that subject. For absurdity and humor, however, it’s hard to beat Week 25’s winning entry from Gary Narberes. It appears that his Wal-Mart has lined its aisles with Proposition...
Los Angeles recently endured a teachers strike, lasting seven days and affecting over 30,000 employees of Los Angeles Unified School District. In the time leading up to the LAUSD teachers strike, 7,000 Los Angeles County nurses narrowly avoided a strike, an event that did not make headlines. As reported by ABC’s local Los Angeles affiliate, the...
In light of the Janus decision, union rule-rigging and ensuing lawsuits continue. As the Janus case (which ultimately would give public employees a choice whether or not to pay money to a union as a condition of employment) was headed to the Supreme Court, many unions saw the writing on the wall and cooked...
What kind of world are we living in where we are warned that a superhero like Batman causes cancer? That was the question posed by Week 24’s winning entry provided by Contessa Mendoza (the_Barefoot_Contessa14). Her entry, a Batman timer, also had the highest social impact score. View this post on Instagram Holy toxic...