Funny how no matter who the woman is, there’s always a ‘but’.

‘Believe women, unless I like the guy.’

As someone who used to volunteer to get into fests for free a bunch back in the day, the amount of shit people leave behind is beyond ridiculous. Still bur ing charcoal grills used to drive me nuts on cleanup. Good way to get free shit though.

Yeah, he wanted to take over the country by just demanding it.

6 months from now- Meta accused of snooping in employees during their 30 minute untracked window.

I’ve gotta hand it to Trump on this one. He managed to find someone vastly less qualified than the already unqualified Gabbard.

Capt. Bill Belichek: Stardate 2401, on to next galaxy.

I’m sure the originalists on the supreme court would argue that since it says freedom of religion, and not freedom of religions, that the founders clearly meant only one religion.

Clown acting like he was censored when he was censured.

Meanwhile, a core component of most government workers at all levels is to disseminate information to the public.

I mean, RFK is the color of a baked potato.

Thanks for the extra info, I never paid much attention the last time it cropped up (because fuck all parties involved), so I had thought it was Spotify going after him as opposed to what sounds like them turning a blind eye to the situation. I guess for them, any amount of perceived usage of their product is a win. I wish the either the courts or congress would do something about arbitration clauses in terms of service, they are highly anti-consumer.

Wasn’t he just caught pumping his numbers on Spotify like six months ago? My first thought when I heard this story was that it was that all over again, but apparently this time Spotify is also involved? Bailed on them years ago, constantly reminded that was the right call.

Depending on the terms of her probation, fraternizing with felons could be a violation, and I know a 34 time felon that she’s probably going to want to hang out with haha. Beyond that, her sentence is commuted and there isn’t anyone able to stop it once Polis signs the paperwork.

Fully, and if given the chance has a high likelihood of recidivism (in my opinion).

One of the main drawbacks of the program was that it punished schools for low test scores with decreased funding, which directly led to schools in impoverished areas or with high numbers of students with learning disabilities being further left behind.

Additionally, teachers in these schools were directly held accountable for students tests scores. While this sounds good on paper, it results in two obvious problems. The first being that good teachers at poor schools are either forced out or voluntarily leave as a result of a diminished workplace. The second applies to all schools and is that teachers no longer educate children, instead focusing on ‘teaching the test.’ Basically the entire focus of a child’s education was changed to making sure that they were prepared to pass a specific set of question types at the end of the year, as opposed to a more holistic education. ‘Teaching to the test’ also had other unintended downstream negative effects, such as reduced funding for the arts and humanities, as they were not a part of the testing protocol.

In [the most disadvantaged schools] in America, even the most earnest teacher has often given up because they lack every available resource that could possibly make a difference. … When we say all children can achieve and then not give them the additional resources … we are creating a fantasy.

-Susan B Neuman, U.S. Department of Education’s former Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education

As for my anecdotal experience, I went to a school in NC as part of the magnet program which, along with bussing, sent students to the poorer districts as an attempt to both integrate as well as increase funding and educational outcomes of schools in those districts. This all came to a screeching halt when the NC judiciary deemed this practice unconstitutional. As a result my school, which was largely held afloat by these measures was no longer capable of getting by. The results of this decision were immediately noticeable, with test scores plummeting and the state taking over almost immediately. This resulted in decreased funding, both from the state/feds and from the withdrawal of more affluent families in the Parent Teacher Associations (which have a high impact on school conditions in the state). All of the more exceptional teachers that were there when I was a student were forced out or chose to leave due to conditions, and I can remember reading articles of teachers literally driving around the ghetto trying to find their students to convince them to show up for the end of year tests. Twenty years later and the school still has not recovered.

After seeing the damage done to my high school in the years following my graduation, you can add my name to the large list of critics who argue that NCLB led us to where we are now. Although I should also give a shoutout to the state of North Carolina for their commitment to no longer being a serious state, after that brief window of time where they had their shit somewhat together.

The study found that the slowdown in learning coincided with two major shifts in American childhood and education policy: the widespread dismantling of test-based accountability systems that defined the No Child Left Behind era and the rise of social media use among young people. Reading scores, in particular, suffered consistently, with the average annual loss in the years just before the pandemic being just as large as the loss during it.

Even before reading the article I said to myself that timeframe would likely correlate to the kids going all the way through Bush’s Every Child Left Behind changes.

MTG is no longer in congress, so there is no reaching across the aisle to sign legislation. She quit literally the day her pension became vested.