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Jordan Sekulow on the debate over reopening schools
Jordan Sekulow, a member of President Trump's outside legal team and Executive Director of the American Center for Law and Justice, weighs in on 'The Next Revolution.'
United Teachers Los Angeles recently released a research paper on steps needed to safely reopen public schools amid the coronavirus outbreak and pointed to the need to free up additional funding by defunding the police.
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"Police violence is a leading cause of death and trauma for Black people, and is a serious public health and moral issue," the paper said, citing the American Public Health Association. "We must shift the astronomical amount of money devoted to policing, to education and other essential needs such as housing and public health."
Teachers unions have long been criticized by Republicans as an extension of the Democrat Party. Republicans will likely use the paper to support that claim. The union's paper also took aim at charter schools and reportedly called for a federal Medicare-for-All program.
The union's paper did not offer a dollar amount to cut from the police. The Los Angeles City Council already cut the LAPD budget by $150 million and said the money will be earmarked for disadvantaged communities. The union did not immediately respond to an after-hours email from Fox News.
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LAUSD said that educators want to get back into their classrooms, but asked, "given broader societal conditions, how do we open physical schools in a way that ensures that the benefits outweigh the risks, especially for our most vulnerable students and school communities?"
The paper pointed out that minority "working communities, where people are more likely to have 'essential' jobs" oftentimes have insufficient healthcare and face other risk factors while "the rewards of economic recovery accrue largely to white and well-off communities that have largely been shielded from the worst of the pandemic's effects."
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Cecily Myart-Cruz, the UTLA president, said, "We all want to physically open schools and be back with our students, but lives hang in the balance. Safety has to be the priority. We need to get this right for our communities."
ABC 7 reported that 83 percent of UTLA members said schools should not physically reopen on Aug. 18.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said Sunday that she intends to have American schools open for in-person classes this fall, and insisted that this can be done safely despite concerns over the coronavirus pandemic.
"Parents are expecting that this fall their kids are going to have a full-time experience with their learning, and we need to follow through on that promise," DeVos told "Fox News Sunday," stressing that "kids cannot afford to not continue learning."
The clash between the Trump administration and teachers unions, to some, is unsurprising. Many state officials say reopening schools is a state and local issue.
Trump has gotten into public feuds with Democrat governors about moving too slowly to reopen the country.
Trump's theory has been Democrats have been slow to reopen because as long as the country is locked down, the economy will not be able to roar back before November. Democrats point to the uptick in new coronavirus cases in certain states and say the president is being reckless.
The authors of the LAUSD paper make it clear that leadership of the 35,000-member union believes that — although the entire country has had to deal with the virus—the burden has not been evenly shared.
The paper called the common saying, "We're all in this together" a "platitude" that fails to acknowledge the data that shows the coronavirus has been a disproportionate burden for racial and ethnic minorities.
JustTheNews.com, which was founded by journalist John Solomon, was first to report on the LAUSD linking -- in part -- the reopening to police defunding. The report also pointed out that the union said charter schools "drain resources from district schools."
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The call to defund police departments has gained traction after protests broke out in the wake of George Floyd's death in police custody in May.
"It is time to take a stand against Trump's dangerous, anti-science agenda that puts the lives of our members, our students, and our families at risk," Myart-Cruz said.
Edmund DeMarche is a senior news editor for FoxNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @EDeMarche.
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This is what one large Teachers union believes.
Parents everywhere ....... beware!
Instead of defunding the police department, which any sane human being should be against, why not defund schools which refuse to educate? Oh wait!..That's exactly what the Trump administration intends to do.
I know .... up is down and down is up on this one.
which doesn't work out so well it seems.
I liked this statement:
"Burnice Redic, a Stockton native who was formerly incarcerated and now works in a violence prevention program, recalls what it was like to know the officers who walked his block when he was a kid. Once, when he was about 11, a well-known officer everyone called “Blondie” caught him with drugs, he said. But the beat cop knew his mother, father, aunt and grandmother, and let him go with a warning."
Kind of contradicts the whole narrative!
Medicare for all? No way! Only countries that don't want their citizens to go bankrupt paying for medical help or do without health care and die would have universal health care.
The union's paper also took aim at charter schools and reportedly called for a federal Medicare-for-All program.
On that subject, the Great Thomas Sowell talked at length with Mark Levin last night. What I found interesting is his opinion on how close the nation is to the point of no return:
“What I see is if the election goes to Biden then there is a good chance that the Democrats will then control all two branches of Congress and the White House, and considering the kinds of things that they are proposing, that can well mean the point of no return for this country. ”...Thomas Sowell
Mr Sowell has just finished writing his new book: "Charter Schools and Their Enemies".
I'll leave the conversation here for our readers:
Sowell is a smart man.
Outstanding. Levin paid homage to him, telling Sowell how much he had been influenced by his ideas.
Sowell is one of my favorite writers. I saw both Levin and Hilton last night and both were right on!
Thank you for seeding this informative article that points out the societal problems this nation is facing and the difficulties educators are facing in attempting to reopen schools. This paper (see PDF download) offers at least the beginning of a path to resolution.
Frankly, I can find little to criticize - well I wouldn't spend time on the video but here is the link to the actual paper so that you can form your own opinion.
httpsZZZ://www.utla.net/sites/default/files/samestormdiffboats_final.pdf
Copy and paste it into your browser and remove the ZZZ . The link is a download of a PDF file. (I don't like putting live PDF download links in posts.)
All i know is that taking money away from Law Enforcement, and channeling it to education, is not a silver bullet. It makes absolutely zero sense to me.
How much does a Police Officer make in California? The average Police Officer salary in California is $63,300 as of June 28, 2020, but the range typically falls between $59,100 and $68,900. Salary ranges can vary widely depending on the city and many other important factors, including education, certifications, additional skills, the number of years you have spent in your profession.
How much does a Public School Teacher make in California? The average Public School Teacher salary in California is $64,984 as of June 28, 2020, but the range typically falls between $56,735 and $75,025. Salary ranges can vary widely depending on the city and many other important factors, including education, certifications, additional skills, the number of years you have spent in your profession.
Since teachers, on average, are making more that the police - why?????
Fold fringe benefits in there which range around 30% for most public unions.
Now we're talking about 82k average for LEO's and 84k average for teachers. That's what the taxpayers are paying .....
Can't answer your question though but i'm one that says people need workers like their garbage collector more than they need their Doctor. They just take it for granted that they don't.
Let the garbage build up for a few months and we'll see what they think then.
The last thing the left wants is charter schools and school choice. Even though they (public schools) turn out uneducated but leftist indoctrinated students nationwide, they (teachers and their union) continue to claim poverty and lack of resources.