Reid M. Turner
Culture and Power Columnist
Following the money, the power, and the talking points behind what your kids get taught, on one suspicion the experts cannot stand: the people in charge are not telling parents the whole truth.
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Sacramento Moves to Make State Superintendent Powerless, Weeks After a Conservative Placed First in the Primary
For a decade, California's establishment called the elected schools superintendent a powerless figurehead. The week a Chino Valley parent led the primary to win it, Sacramento moved to gut the office in seventy-two hours. Follow the power, and you learn who really runs the state's schools.
Your School Board Election Is the Cheapest One in America to Steal, Just Ask Hempstead
A sitting Hempstead trustee finished third at the voting machines and first once the absentee ballots were counted, and the votes that flipped it were later found shredded in a dumpster. The clerk who ran the election worked for the board she helped pick. That is the real scandal.
A Third of Oregon's Kids Are Chronically Absent, So the State Wants to Repeal Compulsory Attendance
Oregon's own report recommends repealing the compulsory attendance statutes, renaming "unexcused" absences, and recasting attendance as a "performance growth indicator." When the scoreboard says a third of kids are missing, the managerial class does not get better. It unplugs the scoreboard.
Your Teachers' Union Spent $669 Million on Politics, Not Classrooms
The teachers' unions say they fight for educators and for the kids. So why, since 2015, did the NEA and AFT route over $669 million in dues and PAC money to political campaigns, activist nonprofits, and the fight against school choice? It is not a leak. It is in their own federal filings.