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SHOCK: 65% of Public School 8th Graders Not Proficient in Reading; 67% Not Proficient in Math

Click here: Sixty-five percent of the eighth graders in American public schools in 2017 were not proficient in reading and 67 percent were not proficient in mathematics, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress test results released by the U.S. Department of Education.
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Control the Words, Control the Culture

The culture war is first and foremost a war of words – and the left is winning. The consequences can be seen everywhere: in politics, in education, in media. In this short 4-minute video, Michael Knowles, host of the Michael Knowles Show, explains why we should not cede another syllable.

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Student Journalist Says Discipline Policies Weakened School Safety Before Parkland Shooting

Click here: Kenneth Preston, a 19-year-old student journalist who attends high school in Broward County, Florida, has done an in-depth investigation of the superintendent and school board. His report, released on Tuesday, says that Broward Superintendent Robert Runcie and the school district failed to spend over $100 million of federal money intended for school safety upgrades. Runcie once worked under former Obama Secretary of Education Arne Duncan in the Chicago Public Schools system.
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Why The Paris Climate Accord is Such a Fraud

President Trump is right to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement! The deal isn’t worth the paper it is written on.

But many politicians and much of the media are horrified. Al Gore called pulling out of the Paris Agreement a “reckless and indefensible decision.” Former President Obama said: “This administration joins a handful of nations that reject the future.” Really? Have they read the agreement?

John Stossel explains why in a short 4-minute video.

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Here’s Why a State Called Constitutional Convention is a REALLY HORRIBLE IDEA

When asked about their thoughts on a State Called Constitutional Convention:

Justice Antonin Scalia said in 2014, “I certainly would not want a constitutional convention. Whoa! Who knows what would come out of it?”

Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court Warren Burger wrote in 1988: [T]here is no way to effectively limit or muzzle the actions of a Constitutional Convention.  The Convention could make its own rules and set its own agenda.  Congress might try to limit the Convention to one amendment or one issue, but there is no way to assure that the Convention would obey.  After a Convention is convened, it will be too late to stop the Convention if we don’t like its agenda.

Click Here: States Likely Could Not Control Constitutional Convention on Balanced Budget Amendment or Other Issues
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Florida School Shooting Survivor Offers Alternatives to Gun Bans

Click here: Kyle Kashuv, a 16-year-old junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, says employing veterans to guard schools and making mental health counseling available to students could help prevent mass shootings. Kashuv didn’t grow up around guns, and his family never owned any. When his peers say that “banning automatic weapons” is a solution to mass shootings, he corrects them. “They’ve been banned for a long time,” he says.
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REPORT: Broward County Schools Embraced Obama Policy To Avoid Arresting Criminal Students, Allowing Parkland Shooter To Slip Through Cracks

Click here: Florida school shooter was able to escape scrutiny despite dozens of red flags, including dozens of reports to police and at least two reports to the FBI, thanks to Obama administration policy dedicated to preventing the arrest of troubled students.
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China’s Long Arm Reaches Into American Campuses

Click here: China is stepping up efforts to inject communist party ideology into student life.
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Iowa No. 1 in Best States Ranking says US News & World Report

Click here: There’s more to the Hawkeye State than corn and presidential primaries, the Best States rankings show.

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Schools Safer today than in 1990s, study on shootings says

Schools overall are safer today than they were in the early 1990s. “There is not an epidemic of school shootings,” said James Alan Fox, Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern University. He said more children die each year from pool drownings or bicycle accidents.
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