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Idaho, U.S.

Idaho makes it harder to get a library card than to vote!

08 November 2016  (04:05 UTC-07 Tango 01) 18 Aban 1395/07 Safar 1438/09 Ji Hai 4714

“To receive your permanent library card bring in a photo ID and proof of your current address. If you are under 18, a parent or legal guardian will need to be present to approve your application and show photo identification and proof of current address.”-Boise Public Library

In Idaho it’s harder to get a library card than to vote.  All you need to register to vote is an Idaho identification with your pic on it. Yet to get a library card you need that plus proof of residence, like a utility bill!  But get this, even if you don’t have a photo ID you can still vote in Idaho using a Personal Identification Affidavit!

MULTIPLE VOTE RIGGING ARRESTS ACROSS THE U.S.!
WHAT DEMOCRACY? IDAHO VOTERS FOOLS, LAP TOPS FOR SCHOOLS  PROPOSITION A DONE DEAL TO HELP SAVE HP!
WHAT DEMOCRACY? IDAHO ELECTS MITT ROMNEY, WITH 0% OF POLLS REPORTING! MORE PROOF YOU WASTED YOUR TIME VOTING!
IDAHO NEWS MEDIA MISLEADS ON SCHOOL LEVY ISSUE
VOTE LOCAL, SCREW NATIONAL!

U.S.

“particularly complex…potentially expensive” : September 2016 Dumbing Down the U.S.

It must be noted that I started documenting these education shutdowns at the beginning of 2014, in that year I posted the reports biannually (every six months). In 2015 education cutbacks ramped up and I posted quarterly (every three months). For the past eight months of 2016 there have been so many education cutbacks that I’ve posted a report every month!

Disappearing Students Syndrome (DSS): A phrase created by me to describe a phenomenon taking place across the United States, affecting both privately and publicly funded schools, from Kindergarten all the way through University levels.

Incomplete list of publicly announced education related layoffs & school shutdowns, September 2016:

California: Reports of unknown rash affecting 40 teachers and children at Lake Forest Elementary, in Orange County.  Some victims say the rash looks and feels like “bug bites”.  Orange County health administrators ruled out vectors.  A local TV station showed video of the lawn at the school with Do Not Cross ‘tape’ around it, school admin refused to comment but parents say many of the affected students were playing on the lawn (chemical contamination?).

Idaho: State education administrators and ‘lawmakers’ debating new ways to divy out dwindling taxpayer funding for schools, some plans would see as much as $131-million USD cut from school funding! School district administrators also told ‘lawmakers’ that ObamaCare mandated employee health insurance is sucking up more and more taxpayer funding.  Blue Cross of Idaho provides the insurance for Idaho teachers and jacked up their rates by 16.5% in 2015.  One plan for handling ObamaCare insurance for Idaho teachers could actually cost taxpayers an additional $17-million!  Budget policy analyst Paul Headlee warned “This is a This is a particularly complex and potentially expensive endeavor, endeavor.”

Illinois:  In Mount Carmel, District 348 shutting down South Elementary at the end of their school year.  It’s blamed on building repair costs and years of tax funding cuts due to years of Disappearing Students Syndrome.  In Obama’s Failed Homie State of Chicago, after years of slowly declining enrollments Chicago Public Schools reported a sudden 3.5% drop in enrollments, compared to last school year.  Administrators are now warning of even more layoffs.

Indiana: ITT Tech now officially bankrupt dead after the U.S. Department of Education banned the for-profit national school from accepting new students who rely on federal education loans or grants, because it couldn’t prove graduates were getting good paying jobs.  8-thousand jobs gone, at least 35-thousand students screwed!  I find it par-for-the-course (in this age of Dumbing Down) that many former ITT students say they were unaware of the school’s problems, despite at least two months of news reports!

Michigan: In Detroit, the Big Bookstore near Wayne State University shutting down, due to the owner getting an incredible offer for the land from a property developer.

Minnesota: Blaine based Regency Beauty Institute suddenly shutdown all 79 campuses across the country.  Administrators say there is a conspiracy to Dumb Down the U.S. : “…declining numbers of cosmetology students nationwide, a negative characterization of for-profit education by regulators and politicians that continues to worsen and, in light of these factors, an inability to obtain continued financing…. ..The environment is simply not one that allows us to remain open.” 

New York: God powerless to stop ‘his’ College of Saint Rose from possibly eliminating 23 jobs due to a $9-million shortfall, despite boasting of a record number of enrollments this school year!  It should be noted that the College of Saint Rose is deeply involved/connected with U.S. attorneys and court judges, unAmerican corporate America and the main stream news media.

North Dakota: North Dakota State University eliminating 95 jobs through attrition, buyouts, and vacant positions will not be filled.  Remaining employees will have their hours reduced.  Administrators say they must cut their 2017-19 budget by $15.7-million USD!

Oregon: In Northeast Portland, pissed-off parents say the now dead Tiny Revolution Montessori failed to refund their money after shutting down without warning on 04 September.  What’s more interesting is that according to court documents the school owners knew they would be shutting down back in July!

Pennsylvania: DuBois Business College shutting down all four campuses due to problems with the Accrediting Council of Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS).

Texas:  In Bryan, after 30 years of supplying educators Jacque’s Toys and Books shutting down after Halloween.

Wyoming: It’s been revealed (nationally) that the shutdown of Midwest School, back in May, was caused by the oil industry.  To show you how much the oil industry controls The Cowboy State an oil well ‘donkey pump’ was planted on one end of the school’s football-track field!   The school had to shutdown because gas from the pumping of the well filled the only school for the town of Midwest!

August 2016: “IT’S AN INDECENT PRACTICE!” THROWING MONEY AT EDUCATION DOESN’T WORK, UNLESS IT’S TO HELP FUTURE POLICE CHEAT ON THEIR EXAMS!

U.S.

“Everything is on the table….No one is safe.” : August 2016 U.S. Federal State & Local Shenanigans

Incomplete list of U.S. Federal/State/Local Government self-destruct announcements for August 2016:

Bill & Hillary Clinton claim they paid 34.2% of their income to federal income taxes.  They also claim they paid 9.8% of their ‘adjusted’ income to charity, mostly to their own charity informally called Clinton Family Foundation (which, by the way, is how they keep their daughter Chelsea employed, it’s officially called the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation).

Flip-Flopper Hillary: According to The Washington Times, Hillary Clinton helped create the not-so-free Obama regime’s free trade deal known as Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), but now as a presidential candidate Hillary Clinton claims she will cancel TPP becasue it’s not free or fair to the working class!

The Washington Post revealed that despite Donald Trump claiming his golf courses are worth tens of millions of U.S. dollars his state tax filings are claiming otherwise, but only because Trump is trying to reduce paying his fair share of taxes.  

California: Victor Valley Wastewater Reclamation Authority laid off 13 people.  VVWRA is paid by how much sewage water flows into their privately run treatment plant, and sewage flows crashed by 22% (since 2010), forcing VVWRA to conduct across the board layoffs.  VVWRA blames the city of Victorville for diverting one-millions gallons of sewage into the city run treatment plant.  The city of Victorville counters by blaming delayed construction of a new pipeline on VVWRA.  That pipeline is supposedly functional now, and was 94% funded by taxes from the federal government (through FEMA).  Not only has Cupertino based Apple avoided paying its fair share of taxes to the not-so Golden State, as well as the United States, but apparently failed to pay the equivilant of $14-million USD in taxes to the European Union!  The Guardian reports that the Obama regime is threatening the European Union (an ally of the U.S.) for demanding U.S. companies like Apple pay their fair share in taxes!  And San Francisco based Uber failed to pay Taiwan the equivilant of $6.3-million in taxes!  The government of Taiwan (an ally of the U.S.) says Uber hasn’t paid taxes since 2013!

Colorado: The Colorado Weekly Homebuyers List reports at least six property owners/businesses facing federal and state tax liens, just in Boulder County.

Delaware: Illinois based HVS Convention, Sports, and Entertainment Consulting ties Delaware with Idaho for the 8th highest hotel tax rate in the U.S.

Florida: Brevard County Court warning of layoffs due to state taxpayer funding cuts.  The county Clerk of Courts told local news that 28 jobs could be eliminated between now and January 2017.  Local news reports say Brevard County Court has been eliminating jobs since 2008; from 480 to now less than 3-hundred.

Idaho: A Fourth District Judge has thrown out a lawsuit challenging the 2014 law that heaps huge taxpayer funded incentives on companies moving to The Gem State.  Tens of millions in tax breaks (supposedly in the form of “reimbursements”) have already gone to companies like California based Amy’s Kitchen and Ireland’s Glanbia Foods. Agricultural news source Capital Press also revealed that an undisclosed food producer was recently given a $15-million tax credit for creating a piddly 80 jobs in Boise.  The state Depatment of Commerce claims that tax ‘reimbursments’ helped create 4,737 new jobs. But if companies aren’t paying their fair share of taxes how are the state and local governments going to make up for it?  By hitting Idaho residents with jacked up taxes and fees, of course.

If you’ve got a family and you’re thinking about moving to Idaho to get a job with one of those taxpayer subsidized companies, think again.  The Gem State is one of the worst when it comes to affordable child daycare, and the state government does nothing about it.  Economic Policy Institute says the average Idaho family spends $6-hundred per month per child on daycare.  Child Care Aware says from 2013 to 2014 childcare costs in Idaho skyrocketed by 19.9%!  Even a daycare operator says it’s not worth it to raise a family in Idaho: “Ultimately, when you do the math, and mom is only making X amount, how much of that money is going toward lunches out, and extra clothing, and taxes, and gas to get to and from? You have to look at all of that and see if it’s cost-effective.”-Megan MacCleary, Megan’s Munchkins Preschool, whose income from her daycare operation is so low she qualies for Medicaid (even though daycare rates have gone up Idaho still ranks third lowest for daycare operator/worker pay)

Indiana: Ball State University economist Michael Hicks warned that taxpayers are being raped in the name of saving the corporate retail industry: “We are in the fourth or fifth iteration of government subsidizing new development at the urging of property developers, consultant firms and bond attorneys. Each time a shiny new strip mall is opened, a small-business owner somewhere else is eventually put out of business. The cycle continues. Consultants get rich, local economic developers claim jobs and local taxpayers get struck with empty retail infrastructure they didn’t need, and not enough money to fix the schools…”

Kansas: More proof of Failed State-ism; yet again monthly state tax collections failed to cover state government expenses.  August tax collections were $10-million USD short of what was needed!  Blame unAmerican corporate America: “Individual income taxes beat estimates for the second month of the fiscal year, which is encouraging, but corporate, sale and use tax receipts continue to lag pulling down the overall totals.”-Nick Jordan,  Secretary of Revenue

Kentucky: Illinois based HVS Convention, Sports, and Entertainment Consulting says Kentucky experienced a 19.32% hotel tax revenue growth, the biggest growth in the U.S.

Massachusetts: The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority warning of mass layoffs due to being ‘in the hole’ by $100-million USD!  At least 60 MBTA janitors are being laid off, for a start.

Michigan:  Proof of Failed State-ism; Montcalm County Sheriff Department warning deputies of possibly layoffs due to the county being in the financial hole by $1.5-million USD.  County administrators revealed that since 2012 tax collections have fallen behind expenses by an average of $2-million per year!  (if the private sector can’t pay people enough, then people can’t pay taxes)

New Jersey: More proof of Failed State-ism; The city of Paterson shutdown 36 taxpayer funded summer camps, warned of 250 layoffs, forced furlough days for remaining employees, and  intentionally increase police issued traffic tickets to generate cash!  Even with the layoffs, and forcing police to arbitrarily issue 30-thousand (80 per day) additional money generating traffic tickets, city administrators whine that they will still be short $2.1-million USD!  The New York Times revelaed that when Chris Christie became governor he reduced the $30-million in taxes owed by the now dead Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort to just $5-million!  Now we know the reason why Trump went from being a Democrat to being a Republican; bribery!

New Mexico: Cibola County prison shutting down by October, 3-hundred jobs affected!  The prison has been operated by the evil for profit Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) since 1998, CCA refused to say why they’re shutting the prison down.  It might be connected to the fact the federal government’s own study shows “They do not save substantially on costs and … they do not maintain the same level of safety and security.”

New York: The town of Oyster Bay is $700-million USD in debt, 103 employees have been retired early and another 150 will be laid off!    John Venditto, town supervisor for 18 years, warned “Everything is on the table. There will be a proportion between non-exempt employees and exempt employees. No one is safe.”

By the way, former Oyster Bay commissioner Frederick Ippolito had his federal court sentencing delayed. He pled guilty to failing to pay taxes on a $2-million consulting fee he was paid while serving as the town’s planning and development commissioner.

Ohio: According to Crain’s Cleveland Business the Internal Revenue Service has filed federal tax liens against 21 businesses.

South Carolina: Illinois based HVS Convention, Sports, and Entertainment Consulting says South Carolina experienced a negative 3.22% hotel tax revenue ‘growth’, the biggest decline in the U.S.

Washington DC: The Congressional Budget Office says within ten years taxpayer spending on military and civilian government jobs will hit a 53 years low, due to crashing tax revenues and skyrocketing costs of operations (especially due to ObamaCare).  Already the Internal Revenue Service has eliminated 17-thousand tax collecting jobs in the past six years!

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

JULY 2016 U.S. FEDERAL/STATE/LOCAL GOVERNMENT SHENANIGANS

Idaho

My Immigrant Idaho: Federales say Idaho dominated by poor immigrants!

28 August 2016 (16:14 UTC-07 Tango 01) 07 Shahrivar 1395/24 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/26 Bing-Shen 4714

Federales: Spanish for government employees or agencies, pronounced fed-e-rall-ess.

The U.S. Census Bureau warning that sparsely populated Idaho could soon be dominated by immigrants, with the result that the majority of Gem State families will become poor.  The Census Bureau “state projections” say the majority of immigrants to Idaho will be ‘Hispanic’ (last year I revealed how the state Department of Education is using taxpayer funding to operate a ‘department of English’ for Latino migrants).

Between Gregorian years 2000 and 2014 the majority of the population growth in Idaho involved Latino migrants, a whopping 93% within Idaho’s Latino population!  It’s ‘projected’ that by 2019/2020 the number of “families” in Idaho will grow by 23-thousand 5-hundred, mostly from migrants and all concentrated in urban areas (government ‘projections’ say they’ll actually be an exodus from rural areas).

In 2008, 16% of Idaho families were considered poor, by 2014 it jumped to 19%.   Census Bureau projections say as the immigrant population in The Gem State grows the average family income will drop below $25-thousand USD per year!

MY IMMIGRANT IDAHO : CRIMES SKYROCKET PARTLY DUE TO DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN MIGRATION!

Bannock County, Idaho, revealed that their prison operations are facing record overcrowding due to migrants! 

OBAMA TO CREATE JOBS FOR THOUSANDS OF IMMIGRANTS!

IDAHO LOSES JOBS, YET RECORD NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN WORKFORCE….BLAME IMMIGRANTS!

IDAHO BURDENED BY $187-MILLION WORTH OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS!

“IT’S PART OF OUR NEW BUSINESS MODEL…” IDAHO HIT WITH SKYROCKETING POOR U.S. MIGRANTS!

HISTORY SHOWS IMMIGRANTS ARE GREATEST SELF-INFLICTED THREAT TO EMPIRES!

U.S.

“It’s an indecent practice!” Throwing money at education doesn’t work, unless it’s to help police cheat! : August 2016 Dumbing Down the U.S.

It must be noted that I started documenting these education shutdowns at the beginning of 2014, in that year I posted the reports biannually (every six months). In 2015 education cutbacks ramped up and I posted quarterly (every three months). For the past seven months of 2016 there have been so many education cutbacks that I’ve posted a report every month!

Disappearing Students Syndrome (DSS): A phrase created by me to describe a phenomenon taking place across the United States, affecting both privately and publicly funded schools, from Kindergarten all the way through University levels.

Incomplete list of publicly announced education related layoffs & school shutdowns, August 2016:

California: Iconic film and photography school Brooks Institute forced to shutdown their Ventura campus due to a sudden crash in enrollment, 169 jobs lost!  News reports say Brooks suddenly stopped lease required remodeling work and failed to pay $70-thousand USD in rent on the city owned property! The city of Ventura will probably sue the college.  In San Diego, Museum of Contemporary Art laid off 28 people and shutting down their La Jolla campus, saying it’s part of their planned “expansion”.

Connecticut: Bridgeport Public Schools laid off two School Resource Officers (cops). 

Georgia: Albany State University and Darton State College eliminating 110 jobs! It’s blamed on non-stop Disapearing Students Syndrome.  God can’t stop the administrators of ‘his’ Piane College from eliminating 15 jobs due to what I call Disapearing Students Syndrome (it’s The Rapture eyes tells ya).  God’s ‘christian’ college will also reduce many employee’s pay to within 10% of minimum wage!

Idaho: Idaho State University (ISU) laying off 34 people at its Research and Innovation in Science and Engineering Complex (RISE), officially due to contract expiration.  Unnamed employees told local news sources that the RISE was being shutdown due to lack of money, but ISU admin denied the rumor.     More proof that throwing a lot of money at a problem doesn’t fix anything! After eight years, the state Department of Education’s $135-million USD campaign to increase math scores failed, big time! 8th graders considered at or above grade level dropped from 38% to 34% last year! 4th graders dropped from 41% to 38%!   The Education Commission of the States says Idaho’s taxpayer funding of education fails because “…the current formula did not contemplate a variety of different learning modalities, the increasing mobility of students and the states move toward mastery-based education.”      The 2016 Idaho Ready for Change survey says 73% of Idahoans prefer charter, or private schools, over traditional taxpayer funded schools.    Seven years later CenturyLink and Education Networks of America (ENA) now suing the state Department of Education over the scandalous Idaho Education Network project.  State Supreme Court rulings invalidated the IEN contracts, and the whole IEN broadband project was scrapped. CenturyLink and ENA claim they lost $18.5-million USD as a result!   Idaho public schools are also struggling financially after a court ruling (last year) revealed that the fees Idaho schools have been charging for decades violate the state constitution.  School District 151 revealed the illegal fees they were charging would’ve amounted to $140-thousand for the current school year.  School District 411 spent taxpayer funding on an attorney to find ways to continue to charge ‘fees’ without violating the state constitution.   Parents from school districts 2 and 25 (my district) are now suing for a refund of the illegal fees.  

Illinois: Chicago Public Schools (CPS) issued layoff notices to 1-thousand and 29 employees! Administrators claim that the layoffs are at schools experiencing crashing enrollment, but that other schools will actually be hiring.  In Pilsen, Benito Juarez Community Academy laid off ten people as part of the CPS funding cuts.  Elgin Community College laid off 15 employees and warned more layoffs are in the works as state taxpayer funding keeps getting cut.  In Wrigleyville, after 32 years Bookworks shutdown their brick-n-mortar store and will focus on internet sales only. The owners blame their declining brick-n-mortar book sales not on internet competition, but on jacked up rents, which in turn have changed the local brick-n-mortar landscape: “…the bar scene increased dramatically. For a number of years now it seems like every space that has gone for rent has eventually become a bar. It really has changed the atmosphere and focus of the neighborhood…”-Bob Roschke, co-owner

Indiana: The U.S. Department of Education is now banning Carmel based ITT Tech from accepting new students who rely on federal education loans or grants!

Iowa: Iowa State University eliminated 30 InfoTech jobs. At the same time, university administrators claim their reorganization of their IT department actually created eight jobs.

Kansas: Proof that taxpayer funding does not directly equal student performance? The Kansas Association of School Boards reports that student performance is ranked 10th for the United States, despite funding being ranked 29th!

Kentucky: In Louisville,  Speed Art Museum laid off seven people and reduced full-time employees to part-time.  It’s blamed on crashing attendance and $60-million USD in renovation costs.

Maryland: God’s Notre Dame laid off 12 people and shutdown 14 vacant positions.

Minnesota: After 103 years God powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Crossroads College (International Christian Bible College), after the Fall Semester! ‘Christian’ administrators blame it on what I call Disapearing Students Syndrome (it’s The Rapture eyes tells ya).

Ohio: In Beavercreek, education supply store Tools 4 Learning shutdown.

Oregon: After almost 40 years non-profit Arts Central-Art Station-VanGo-Artists in Schools shutdown its education programs in Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson counties.

Pennsylvania: Fiscally ignorant NAACP suing the state, saying the additional $260-million in education funding (on top of the state’s supposed “historic” funding levels) is not enough (see Idaho and Kansas above for proof that mo-money doesn’t equal mo-education)! California University of Pennsylvania has warned its employees of layoffs at the end of the 2016-17 school year, due to crashing enrollment.  A former university instructor reveals that state universities and local police are working together to ‘cheat’ on internet testing for future law enforcement personnel: “Many who earn their Penn State degrees through World Campus, particularly those serving in the military, eventually pursue careers in law enforcement. The removal of the exam-proctoring safeguard signaled to students that cheating in online courses was not only tolerated, but to some extent, also encouraged by Penn State.”-Shane Ralston 

South Carolina: It’s been revealed that PowerBall Lottery funding for state college scholarships is down: “We did not intend for the general fund to cover lottery scholarships to the extent it has. You can’t just tell someone we’re out of money.”-Chip Limehouse, weak-willed state Representative

It was also revealed that many of the state scholarships officially meant for low income students are actually going to students from wealthy families: “It’s an indecent practice! ….you’re sending kids to college on poor folks’ money, but you can’t figure out how to fund schools in Jasper County?”-Reverand Joe Darby

Wisconsin: Half Price Books shutting down their Highland Plaza store: “…during this changing time for our industry, we have to be smart about the business decisions we make. We have great customers here in Milwaukee, but unfortunately the customer traffic hasn’t been high enough to allow us to stay, so we are focusing our resources on our other Milwaukee-area locations.”

July 2016: “WE ARE GOING DOWN…”

International

Germans pissed at their government’s immigrant policy!

22 August 2016 / 22:12 UTC-07 Tango 01 (02 Shahrivar 1395/19 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/21 Bing-Shen 4714)

58% of Deutsches Volk say more False Flag ‘terror’ attacks will occur:

51% say social programs will be overtaxed: 

51% agree that the cheap slave wage immigrant labor will improve the economy:  

GERMAN NEWS MEDIA REVEAL WEALTHY MIGRANTS CONTROL NEW YORK CITY!

NEU HOLOCAUST: 130,000 MIGRANTS ‘DISAPPEARED’ FROM GERMANY!

Idaho

Saudi Arabia kills $5-million for Pocatello! Death blow for Idaho State University?

12 August 2016 (15:03 UTC-07 Tango 01) 22 Mordad 1395/08 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/10 Bing-Shen 4714

I warned back in February that Kuwait and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) were going to cancel their funding for their students attending cash strapped Idaho State University (ISU).  Back then it was due to falling oil prices, but then Arab students began reporting increased cases of harassment and discrimination by Idahoans (a couple months ago at least 50 Arab ‘students’ reported their residences being burglarized).  By June Kuwait and KSA suspended scholarships for their 1-thousand 2-hundred students at ISU. 

The 1,200 Kuwaiti & Saudi students made up about 90% of the foeriegn students at ISU, going by this ISU generated graph

At the beginning of August administrators at the Pocatello based university revealed that the loss of the Arab students will cause ISU to lose $5-million USD for the 2016-17 school year!  Coupled with ongoing ‘domestic’ student exodus ISU will start the new school year with less than 9-thousand 5-hundred students.

The local news media are being careful not to bring religion into their reporting of this issue, but I guarantee you the average ‘christian’ Idahoan says it’s totally about the foreign students being ‘muslims’ from the biggest sponsor of terrorism (U.S. ALLY SAUDI ARABIA, NOT IRAN, IS THE MAIN SPONSOR OF “ISLAMIC EXTREMIST TERRORISM”!).

But this exodus of students (both foreign and domestic) is being downplayed, maybe even covered up by the failing University.  A July article in the Idaho State Journal revelaed that the actual crash in enrollment is about 56%!  Not the 38% reported by administrators.  Apparently administrators were doubling up on students known as ‘dual enrollment’ (one student that on paper is enrolled twice).

The National Association of Foreign Student Advisers (NAFSA: Association of International Educators) economic analysis shows the struggling Gem State made $110-million in tuition/fees and living expenses from foreign college students during the 2013-14 school year!  NAFSA says 882 jobs were created as well.

A few months ago ISU announced that for Idahoans who want to attend they can now get a four year “tuition lock”, but this week a local TV news program stated that when they spoke to ISU students the overwheming response was that the cost of education needs to drop, not be ‘locked in’.

RECORD NUMBER OF FOREIGNERS ATTEND IDAHO STATE! IT CAN’T STOP THE ENROLLMENT BLOODLETTING!

U.S.

U.S. Navy says stop judging pregnant women, age & body type key factors.

03 August 2016 (14:41 UTC-07 Tango 01) 13 Mordad 1395/28 Shawwal 1437/01 Bing-Shen 4714

“Women carrying their first child tend to be smaller through most of their pregnancy. A healthy gain is somewhere between 25 and 35 pounds for a body mass index of 20 to 25; however there is some flexibility there depending on each individual.”-Candice Foura,  Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, midwife

Tyler Texas native Danielle Bolton, currently Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune assistant public affairs officer, is experiencing the effects of age, body type and what she calls a later in life pregnancy.

She’s discovered that there are many factors in how a woman looks when she’s pregnant; they include body type (remember the old English nursery rhyme about Jack Sprat and his wife), age of the woman when pregnant, and whether it’s the woman’s first pregnancy or second, third, etc.

Bolton admitted her concern for how she looked was spurred by a younger co-worker who was further along in her pregnancy, yet barely had a ‘baby bump’.  Both women exercise regularly.  It’s the younger woman’s first child and Bolton is now a veteran of pushing out new Marines (she’s a former Marine).

Bolton also pointed out that while she was pregnant as an active duty Marine she gained as much as triple the ‘accepted’ weight, yet lost it quickly once birthing her sons.

I have a suggestion for when it comes to commenting to a woman you think is pregnant; just don’t, because I’ve witnessed several ‘overweight’ women ‘shamed’ because they were praised for being pregnant when they were not.  A pregnant woman fishing for comments will usually give you a clue.

U.S.

“We are going down…” : July 2016 Dumbing Down the U.S.

It must be noted that I started documenting these education shutdowns at the beginning of 2014, in that year I posted the reports biannually (every six months). In 2015 education cutbacks ramped up and I posted quarterly (every three months). For the past seven months of 2016 there have been so many education cutbacks that I’ve posted a report every month!

Disappearing Students Syndrome (DSS): A phrase created by me to describe a phenomenon taking place across the United States, affecting both privately and publicly funded schools, from Kindergarten all the way through University levels.

New data shows the less money you owe for college education the more likely you will default on your student loan debt.  Several studies by U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, U.S. Department of Education and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, show that the majority of defaults on student loans happen with people who never finish school and who borrow the least amount of money.  Graduate level graduates, with massive student loan debts, make up the smallest percentage of defaults and tend to have the highest rate of employment.

Incomplete list of publicly announced education related layoffs & school shutdowns, July 2016:

Alabama: In Birmingham ten elementary after school programs on the chopping block due to crashing enrollment.  In January school administrators contracted the after school programs through Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) and Boys & Girls Club, in an effort to save money.  Now those contracts are being reviewed.

Alaska: A former Birchwood Christian School teacher sentenced to 15 years after having sexual contact with a 15 years old student.

Arizona: The LDS (Mormon) Church being sued by Navajo who were forced into a Mormon education program from 1947 to the 1990s. The plaintiffs accuse the christians of physically and sexually assaulting them. The Lamanite (Mormon word for Native Americans) Student Placement Program (aka Indian Student Placement Program) took Navajo children from their parents in Arizona and placed them with Mormon familes in Utah.

California: La Cañada Unified School District laid off 16 ‘special needs’ employees, due to declining enrollment of ‘special needs’ students.

Idaho: In Nampa, after decades The Book Exchange shutdown due to the owners being forced to sell the property.  Reports say that in August the owners will offer any remaining books in inventory for free to the public.  School District 321, based in ‘Mormonsville’ Rexburg, has declared a teacher shortage emergency and is now hiring anybody who wants to teach, regardless of certification, starting pay $30-thousand (which is damn good for rural Idaho)!  District 91, based in Idaho Falls, want taxpayers to shell out at least $90-million USD to massively upgrade two old high schools. Another taxpayer burdening suggestion is combining them into a ‘mega’ school. None of the news reports I read indicated there was a problem with student population, one report indicated that taxpayers are getting pissed about being forced to pay more year after year: “We don’t seem to have good participation going out to the schools……….It would be nice to see a broader slice of the community, what their feelings are on our options. I don’t feel comfortable making the decision with just the community input we have so far.”-Bryan Zollinger, District 91 Clerk

Illinois: A sure sign of a Failed State; Southern Illinois University letting go 17 people and 155 vacant jobs will not be filled, due to SIU receiving only 41% of promised state taxpayer funding.  School District 112 will shutdown for schools and redraw boundaries for the remaining schools. Administrators actually told local news media that crashing student enrollment is making it easier to shutdown schools: “We are going down in enrollment, which makes this do-able. It makes it easier to make this work.”-Kristin Swanson, assistant superintendent for student services

Indiana:  The largest school district in the city of Indianapolis, Indianapolis Public Schools, admits that so many students have left that there is no reason to keep many schools open.  As an example, John Marshall Community High School is built to handle 1,650 students, but last school year had a grand total of only 694.   Many schools have only one quarter of the students needed to justify operating expenses!  Factcheck.org reports that “Presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said that the Republican vice presidential nominee, Gov. Mike Pence, ‘slashed education funding in Indiana.’ But Pence claimed he made ‘record investments in education.’ Clinton is wrong, and Pence is misleading.

The education budget under Pence would be a ‘record’ in nominal dollars, but in inflation-adjusted dollars, it’s not. However, the numbers don’t show education funding has been ‘slashed’ either: The budgets he has signed increased education funding, even in inflation-adjusted dollars.”  In other words, bot the Republicans and Democrats are lying through their teeth!

Michigan: Holland Public Schools blames crashing enrollment for laying off nine teachers. The school district will start the next school year with at least 137 less students.

New Hampshire: The American Police Motorcycle Museum forced to shutdown due to arguing with the owners of a next door crematorium.  The owner of the museum says he found human ashes on museum property: “We would see explosions of ash coming out of the chimney, sometimes 50 feet into the air, and then it would cover our motorcycles and our cars.”-Douglas Frederick

New Jersey:  School bus contractor First Student issued a shutdown WARN for their Cologne ops, 65 jobs gone by mid-August.   School bus contractor Jordan Transportation issued a shutdown WARN for its Parsippany operations, 81 jobs gone by the end of August. Community Development Institute Head Start issued a shutdown WARN, 237 people in Newark jobless by the end of August!

New York: Long Island NYC,  Child Development Center of the Hamptons in Wainscott shutdown due to lack of student enrollment.

North Carolina: Community Development Institute Head Start issued a shutdown WARN, 109 people across several cities jobless by the end of August!  Elizabeth City State University eliminating seven jobs by mid-August due to their shrinking budget.

Pennsylvania: An employee at god’s Bishop Carroll Catholic High School is charged with sexually assaulting an international exchange student.  After 120 years Cambria-Rowe Business College suddenly shutdown due to the U.S. Department of Education refusing to recognize their accreditation.

Bethlehem based National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) discovered that the majority of college students who work at unpaid internships are more likely not to find a paying job, because employers do not consider unpaid internships as preparation for real jobs!  NACE also discovered that where you live determines whether you find a job after graduation: “Graduates in the Far West (46.8 percent) and Southwest (50.2 percent) were least likely to be employed either full- or part time.”

Tennessee: A school bus driver who pled guilty to raping a 15 years old student will serve no prison time.  His original four year prison term was changed to ten years probation (probably because Hamilton County can’t afford to put more people in prison).

Texas: Once again state education administrators rejected an attempt by Idaho based Athlos Academy to establish a charter school. Athlos is controlled by an Idaho real estate group. The main reason why Texas continues to reject Athlos is the outrageous claims of being able to enroll more than 3-thousand students within four years!  In the latest Athlos application for state approval only 15 families indicated an intent to enroll: “It’s striking to me that the letters of support have mostly come from legislators. To think that we are willing to risk the academic lives of almost 1,000 children in North Texas is not a risk that I’m willing to take.”-Erika Beltran, Texas Board of Education

Virginia:  After surviving The Great depression and numerous recessions, god powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Lutheran Memorial School in Richmond: “It is with deep regret that the LMS Foundation Board announces that the school does not have the funds to open for the 2016-17 school year.”-official statement

Washington DC: The Boston Globe reports that the U.S. “Department of Education report found numerous problems, including incomplete training and conflict-of-interest policies.” with Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools.

U.S. Department of Education halting student grants/loans for MedTech College due to “valuing profits over the students they serve”, in other words lying about how many of their graduates can find jobs.

Your local high school pushing your kids to take college level AP courses? Think twice: “When comparing students of similar race, gender, standardized test scores, and socioeconomic background, most of the papers find that high school course-taking makes no more than a two percent difference in the final college grade, even when high school courses include Advanced Placement.“–Brookings Institution

Dumbing Down the United States, June 2016: “MORALE IS REALLY LOW.” “THE NUMBERS DON’T LIE.”