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“All hell will break loose”: Dumbing Down the U.S.A., November 2018

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“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”-George Orwell (aka Eric Arthur Blair)

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 (Tip-o-the-Iceberg) list of publicly announced education related layoffs, shutdowns and crimes, November 2018:

Most Teachers Running for public Office Lost 

ALABAMA: school employees in limbo with health insurance lawsuit

High-level education department employees laid off in attempt to save $1.7 million 

ALASKA: ‘We are fed up’: Hundreds of Anchorage educators stage walkout

student punches teacher

ARIZONA:  online charter school CEO pays himself another $1.3 million from school funds

Proposition 305 fails, blocking expansion of school vouchers

ARKANSAS: Special Ed Teacher Arrested for Slapping Autistic Student

teachers’ union relinquishes due process rights

Method of funding schools scrutinized

3 charter schools received F letter grades

CALIFORNIA: Most school construction bonds, more taxes, approved by voters

Teacher Caught on Camera Punching Student

$75K raised for teacher caught on video punching student

After the fire, an entire school district gone

COLORADO: Teacher shortage

Tax Increase For Public Education Fails

State education board orders outside takeover of Adams 14 School District 

CONNECTICUT: A Connecticut town banned parents from its school lunchrooms 

Hamden Board of Ed votes to shutdown two schools.

schools increase security amid vague threat

Does school funding grant cuts actually result in layoffs? “…in 2018, when school grants were cut again, staffing increased by 355 positions statewide.”

elementary school closed indefinitely due to mold

Teacher Pension Problems (to the tune of $100-million)

DELAWARE:  lawsuit alleging state funds schools unfairly

Audit reveals deceptive Delaware-based student loan company

FLORIDA: thousands of teachers and aspiring teachers are failing a revised licensing exam

Florida teacher pay ranks among lowest in the U.S.

Turns out the yoga shooter was a teacher fired for groping students

Junior high school students whacked on THC-laced gummies

GEORGIA: Savannah State University announces layoffs amid student enrollment decline

U.S. Army personnel help plant a new Partners in Education sign in front of Hardaway High School in Columbus.

GUAM: school teacher named in latest sex abuse lawsuit

HAWAII:  In paradise(?) Hawaii can’t hire enough teachers, and can’t convince any to stay

Rape victim sues state Department of Education, saying authorities knew students were violent

IDAHO:  Thousands sign petition backing Idaho teachers who dressed as MAGA border wall for Halloween

Idiocy as Boise State University tasked with trying to figure out why there’s a teacher shortage!

substitute teacher, coach arrested for sexual battery 

Total failure as years later Idaho Still Struggles To Meet College Go-On Rate

More idiocy as Idahoans are taxing themselves a record level ‘supplemental’ $202M for a failed education system

State Board of Education and a prominent Idaho lawmaker are denying wrongdoing after being accused of “being involved in discussions that would circumvent the state’s procurement laws.”

Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Tyler Richins poses for a photo with his father, Dwight Richins, after coaching Sugar-Salem High School to the Idaho 3A state football championship.

ILLINOIS:  Bloomington Barnes and Noble closing in February

 The new California based owner of photo-school Lifetouch, Shutterfly, shutting down Lifetouch campus in Loves Park

Belleville school under investigation for helping students cheat on state testing 

Taxpayers in Princeton reject $35-million tax referendum in favor of new sales tax for prison

School boards vote ‘no’ on proposal to allow armed teachers

INDIANA: “Indiana’s war on teachers is winning”

IPS teachers’ union president resigns after audits found “serious financial mismanagement and misappropriation” of taxpayer funding

Despite taxpayer funding being mishandled dumb-ass voters approve multi-million dollar IPS tax referendums!

still plagued by teacher shortage

25 laid off from Gary Roosevelt due to crashing enrollments

IOWA: Davenport schools cutting 83 certified positions 

Where have Iowa’s teacher-librarians gone? State has 40 percent fewer librarians 

Despite increased enrollments Iowa Wesleyan University could close by May due to crashing endowments

music teacher may lose license over ‘inappropriate relationship’ with student

KANSAS: Stupid taxpayers forced to pay Teach For America $270,000 For Recruiting only Three Teachers

Could an education gap in voters move to the left? 

KENTUCKY:  After teacher uproar, Teachers get failing grade on Election Day

LOUISIANA: A-rated public schools are falling

Reports of abusing students, falsifying records surface at well-known elite prep-school

MAINE: Student test results take a downturn

Maine is offering to reimburse their student loan payments

University system captures extra $15 million, reports $8.2 million surplus

Judge gives suspended sentence to teacher who shoplifted even though she won a million dollars!

teacher’s salary was so low she was forced to apply for government assistance

A teacher defaulted on $55000 in student debt—loan

MARSHALL ISLANDS: On the ‘associated U.S. state’ of Marshall Islands the U.S. Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 1 carried out taxpayer funded repairs to local schools, 07NOV2018.

MARYLAND: teacher punched in face by student

Substitute Teacher Tapes elementary Student To A Chair 

Teacher Admits Calling Black Man the N-Word Because She Didn’t Like How He Exited a Parking Space

Hazing incident reported at another Maryland high school

“All hell will break loose”

MASSACHUSETTS:  New Civics Education Reform Law

Teacher Placed on Leave for Allegedly Recording Student in toilet-room

A plague of racist graffiti 

MICHIGAN: missing the mark on special education

State Senate votes to scrap school union ‘release time’

MINNESOTA: The new California based owner of photo-school Lifetouch, Shutterfly, shutting down Lifetouch HQ in Bloomington, 154 jobs gone  

Voters raise school taxes  (they must be rich, or dumb)

New teacher licensing system

Teacher Suspended After 5-Year-Old Wanders Away

MISSISSIPPI: teacher shortage

teacher dies attempting to assist in crash

teacher caught on video yelling racial slur 

MISSOURI: Teacher Says He Was Banned After Thanking Students Who Stood for Pledge of Allegiance

Teacher and school being sued over sex crimes

teacher suspended for allowing student to wear Ku Klux Klan robe

Missing ballet teacher found dead in lake

MONTANA: Montana State University settles lawsuit over sexual harassment

Higher Education taxpayer funded Levy Passes With Over 60 Percent  (the voters must be rich, or dumb)

University of Montana cuts $5 million

NEBRASKA: Two students detained because of a BB gun

Special Education Students slaving away in School’s Coffee Shop?

This a bad sign concerning the ‘Future Leaders’ of Nebraska; school districts get 9 million tax dollars to help growing number of students with mental health problems​

‘What the hell is wrong with Omaha?’ 

Universities to jack-up tuition

Junior High School Teacher Sentenced in Student Sex Case

NEVADA: Marijuana taxes supposed to be flooding into schools, yet why are schools demanding even more money?

NEW HAMPSHIRE: New teacher conduct code

school board member accused of trying to ‘publicly embarrass,’ ‘intimidate’ student

Increasing funding demands by schools, and reduced state level spending, has resulted in local property taxes making-up more that two-thirds of all tax revenue in New Hampshire!

NEW JERSEY: teachers sue to stop compulsory union fees

High School teacher fired for using n-word

teacher wears same dress for 100 days to promote sustainability

Voters approve $500 million for vo-tech and police-state school security (the voters of New Jersey must be rich, or dumb, or both)

NEW MEXICO:  teacher vacancies called a ‘crisis’

APS to get $1.2M to reward exemplary teachers

NEW YORK:  From stalled buses to canceled programs, New York City schools getting its ass kicked by Ol’ Man Winter!  (Hello, snow happens at the end of Autumn! What’ll happen in the middle of Winter?)

In New York City schools, 40,000 students aren’t getting required special education services

New state Guidelines for What Private Schools Must Teach

NORTH CAROLINA: Body of teacher killed by ‘criminal organization’ found in MexicoOn U.S. Marine Corps’ Camp Lejeune, a fire burned through the roof of Lejeune High School, 01NOV2018.

NORTH DAKOTA: Junior high school teacher gets 10 years in prison

One-room schoolhouse might close

NORTHERN MARIANAS ISLANDS: On the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands, a sixth grader at Hopwood Junior High School inspects the damage caused by Super Typhoon Yutu, 15NOV2018.

U.S. Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 1 ‘SeaBees’ connect a FEMA-owned (taxpayer owned) emergency power generator to the Tinian Elementary School, 05NOV2018.

OHIO:  graduation requirements likely to be put on hold – again.

Rash of school-levy losses reveals voter skepticism

A judge suspected in the death of his teacher wife

Weapons stolen from teacher’s car 

teacher accused of theft blames missing Chromebooks, money on school’s “disorganization”

christian school teacher loses license after being accused of sex crimes

OKLAHOMA: OU Eliminates 50 Staff Positions

teacher accused of having inappropriate relationship with student reaches plea deal

school districts cancel class for general election

another 100 emergency teaching certifications issued

Champion Builders files bankruptcy; East Topeka Learning Center already looking for new contractor

OREGON: schools face ‘behavioral crisis’ 

Police arrest teacher accused of sexual relationship

PENNSYLVANIA: Allentown Cadets drum and bugle corps, facing a daunting budget deficit that has grown in the months since its former CEO was accused of sexually assaulting or harassing women, announced layoffs Wednesday and the elimination of a band program.

unions using new tactics to influence the midterm elections

Teachers Sue over Guns in Schools

PUERTO RICO: Louisiana Schools Chief Gets Contract in Puerto Rico

RHODE ISLAND: poor results on new test are “our truth-telling moment”

Federal lawsuit says Rhode Island fails to prepare students to be informed citizens

Are Civics Lessons a Constitutional Right?

Voters approve record level $250-million taxpayer funded bond (they must be rich, or dumb, or both)

SOUTH CAROLINA: ‘Minimally adequate’: persistent failures in education

schools chief blames vendor for report card delay

SOUTH DAKOTA: For-profit NAU cuts programs, plans layoffs

Most students aren’t ready for college

TENNESSEE: Where you live might predict your success in college

Fewer people are studying to be teachers.

TEXAS:  teacher commits suicide in classroom

Rise in Reported Improper Teacher, Student Relationships

Federal court upholds $33-million reduction in federal level funding for Texas schools

UTAH: voters reject confusing gas tax hike supposedly meant to help fund education

Plans to Punish School Districts That Charge High Pay-to-Play Fees

teacher committed murdered in front of her own children, then decorate xmas tree

school district concerned about ‘pattern of grooming’ after teacher charged with abuse

Audit claims schools fail to report and/or discipline bad teachers

VERMONT:  Mistrial ruled in case of teacher accused of assaulting student

health care and education crises

VIRGINIA: Virginia Teachers Plan to March at the Capital. 

Group tied to charter schools spent thousands on school board elections

Teaching Licenses Revoked for Inappropriate Conduct; Parents Not Notified

School employee investigation involves nude photos

teachers allege pregnancy discrimination by school

WASHINGTON: Tacoma Schools eliminates 13 more positions in latest round of layoffs

state auditor’s office found many principals don’t share student crimes with teachers 

Parent-Teacher Student Group board member arrested

Spokane voters supporting $495 million school bond with 67 percent (they must be rich, or dumb, or both)

Seattle’s $600 million-plus education levy approved by wide margin(they must be rich, or dumb, or both)

Washington DC: Why Teachers Are Leaving DC in Droves

WEST VIRGINIA: The National Guard opened a recruiting office on the campus of Bluefield State College, the college president said it was all about financial aid: “The Guard provides incredible benefits for students that need financial aid, and financial aid is so important to students that are attending college.”-Marsha Krotseng

 Big on Colleges But Little Learning Or Income

WISCONSIN: School referendums break records in ‘landslide for public education’; $1.3-billion!  (they must be rich, or dumb, or both)

Wisconsin teachers lead nation in Airbnb rental

WYOMING:  Teacher Denies Assaulting Ex-Wife with truck

University of Wyoming Dean demands At least $18M 

A Class of One at Rural School 

Guatemala: U.S. Coast Guard personnel rebuild an elementary school in Guatemala (one of the Central American countries flooding the U.S. with migrants), 19NOV2018.

Micronesia: U.S. Navy SeaBees spend U.S. tax dollars building a new high school for the Federated States of Micronesia, 17NOV2018.

Niger: In the African country the U.S. Army and Air Force helped deliver about 300 ‘donated’ desks to schools, watch official video report:

Dumbing Down the U.S.A., September 2018: TEACHERS MORE VIOLENT & CRIMINAL THAN STUDENTS?

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Taxes, bad cops & criminal migrants on the rise!: U.S. government shenanigans, September 2018

Incomplete (i-e ‘Tip of the Iceberg’) list of United States Federal/State/Local Government self-destruct revelations for September 2018:

 U.S. Has Highest Share of Foreign-Born Since 1910

At Camp Foster, Japan, military personnel became U.S. citizens, LEGALLY, 06SEP2018.

ALABAMA: Selma City Council passes $17.4 million budget

ALASKA: Anchorage budget proposal relies on taxes, revenues, cuts

ARKANSAS: 15 migrants arrested

CALIFORNIA: Rape suspect arrested, turns out he’s a ‘Safety Specialists’ at UC Berkeley!

On-duty Kern County deputy arrested for allegedly being on drugs

Court rules San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputy violated the Fourth Amendment rights of students

Deputy arrested for violating probation

Retired cop arrested for grand theft auto and threatening other cops

Stanislaus County Supervisor has DUI arrest record

150 Undocumented Immigrants, Most of Them With Criminal Records, Arrested in 3-Day Operation

Deep in red, Sacramento City school district’s budget rejected 

COLORADO: Denver unveils almost $1.5B budget proposal

FLORIDA: 

U.S. Coast Guard captures 11 migrants and three human traffickers off Boca Raton, 08SEP2018.

Two City of Clearwater employees arrested for stealing from the taxpayers

police lieutenant arrested, accused of molesting little girl

Palm Beach County Sheriff’s  deputy arrested for possessing and sharing child pornography

Palm Beach County Sheriff’s  deputy fired for being drunk (was already in trouble for multiple hazing incidents and assaulting prisoners)

Police Officer arrested for disorderly conduct at restaurant

corrections trainee charged with sexual misconduct

Prison guard arrested for drugs and bribery

“An inmate at Columbia Correctional Institution’s annex was able to strangle and mutilate his cellmate, gouge out his eyeballs, wrap his blood-soaked body in a sheet and walk into the prison’s chow hall wearing the dead inmate’s ear strung around his neck before officers learned anything was amiss…”

Gainesville Regional Utilities jacked-up by 2%

Tampa approves more than $1-billion budget

Bradenton passes record budget. Yes, you will pay more

GEORGIA: deputy kept job despite child cruelty arrest

Deputy arrested for illegally selling guns

ILLINOIS: 63% of registered voters say they’re O-K with immigrants flooding into the state, yet 53% also said they want to get the hell outta Dodge (leave the state)!

Police admit gangs are behind gun violence

Department of Corrections investigating prisoner deaths 

Despite raising property taxes, the City of Evanston still short by $7.5-million, will now increase fees and cut services 

IDAHO: Budget office warns Idahoans may face bigger tax bills

2019 state education budget proposal includes $19.1 million for police-state ‘student safety’

proposed teacher raises revised, after error found in budget

Death, understaffing claims prompt another investigation of taxpayer funded ‘treatment’ center

Nampa asks for volunteers to scare away crows

Taxpayers forced to pay $78000 to national search firm to find next U of I president

INDIANA: Two men, including the Sewer and Maintenance Superintendent of Muncie, arrested for wire fraud, falsification of documents and witness tampering.

Deputy quits job after being arrested for being drunk 

Indianapolis Police & Fire demand more taxpayer funding

IOWA: 2018 budget surplus a higher than expected

LOUISIANA: Five Deputies arrested for beating and raping prisoners!

Opelousas City Council increases taxpayer funded budget

KENTUCKY: 16 U.S. Army soldiers at Fort Knox became U.S. citizens, LEGALLY, 19SEP2018.

MASSACHUSETTS: 

In Boston, 24 military personnel became U.S. citizens, LEGALLY, 20SEP2018.

MINNESOTA: Big budget cuts, layoffs at White Earth reservation, including police force

MISSISSIPPI: 16 prisoners die

Hattiesburg City Council swears residents will be safer due to more cops, despite efforts to reduce a $3.47 million budget shortfall

Pascagoula jacks-up taxes in effort to stop mass layoffs and reduce $14-million deficit

MISSOURI: City of Jefferson to buy new cop cars and rezone 139 properties

NEW HAMPSHIRE: State’s growth dependent upon foreigners as more citizens left the state, than moved in, from 2002-2012.

NEW JERSEY:  Newark Liberty International Airport eliminating 8-hundred jobs due to United Airlines suddenly changing its ground handling contract!

NJ cop arrested on charges of luring underage children for sex

NEW MEXICO: Every month state taxpayers forced to fund secret lawsuit settlements!

deputy arrested outside Santa Fe bar

Border Patrol Agent Arrested in Connection With Murders of 4 Women

NEW YORK: 7 New York Police Officers Arrested

Police sergeant, firefighter, nurse among 24 alleged child predators arrested in sting operation

Male prison guard arrested for having sex with prisoner

Female prison guard arrested for raping prisoner

OHIO: Sandusky cop arrested on felony charges

Mahoning County Sheriff’s Deputy arrests Lisbon City Police Officer

Corrections officers disciplined after prisoner escapes

Prison guard turns whistleblower revealing pics that show dungeon-like conditions of taxpayer funded prison

OKLAHOMA: Colonel Christopher A. Hussin, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the Tulsa County Drainage District 12 Levee Commissioner signed a Cost Sharing Agreement for the $3-million taxpayer funded Tulsa-West Tulsa Levee System Feasibility Study.  The levee was first built in the 1940s and apparently is in need of updating if it’s to continue as a flood control system.

Thousands of Oklahomans switch political party affiliation

senator convicted of child sex trafficking sentenced

PENNSYLVANIA: Taxpayer funded for-profit prison contractor GEO issued a shutdown WARN (Worker Adjustment Retraining Notification) for its Walker Hall operations, 27 jobs gone right after Thanksgiving.

Corrections officer accused of smuggling drugs

SOUTH CAROLINA: Prison guards arrested for drug smuggling

TENNESSEE: Correctional Officer Accused Of Smuggling 

TEXAS: Arrests of Bexar County cops sets new record in 2018!

Bexar County deputy arrested on drunk driving charge; 17th deputy criminally charged in 2018

Deputy arrested on DWI charge gets fired

Dallas police officer who shot neighbor dead arrested

El Paso County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested an El Paso City Police officer for deadly hit-&-run

Wise County deputy arrested for assault

Border agents in South Texas saw increase in migrant families make illegal crossings

San Antonio adopts $2.8-billion budget

Amarillo increases taxes to hire more cops

UTAH: Firefighting group expresses concern over prisoner rape arrest

WASHINGTON: Female prison guard arrested for having sex with prisoner

Seattle unveils $5.9 billion budget proposal

The never ending Hanford nuclear reservation clean-up (proposed) budget is now $15-million higher than last year 

Spokane Public Schools to pay for teacher pay raises by forcing teachers to retire early

Washington DC: Ice arrests more than 40 people trying to sponsor migrant children

Border arrests of migrant families increase 38 percent 

Indians (from India) arrested for illegally entering U.S. nearly triples

New TRAC Report Shows Where ICE Arrests Occur

ObamaCare-ACA death spiral, September 2018: “DANGEROUSLY LOW”

Dumbing Down the U.S.A., September 2018: TEACHERS MORE VIOLENT & CRIMINAL THAN STUDENTS?

Drugs, the American Way, September 2018: “…THE ENTIRE COUNTRY MUST FOCUS ON THIS!” “DRUG DEALERS IN ARMANI SUITS”

U.S. government shenanigans, August 2018: ARE COPS THE NEW #1 ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE? IDAHO RAPES TAXPAYERS!

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Are Cops the new #1 Enemy of the People? Idaho rapes taxpayers!: U.S. government shenanigans, August 2018

Incomplete (i-e ‘Tip of the Iceberg’) list of United States Federal/State/Local Government self-destruct revelations for August 2018:

Civil Asset Forfeiture: A Guide to Policing For Profit. 

USA Today: Prisoners nationwide go on strike to protest ‘modern-day slavery’

ALABAMA: Warrior police officer arrested for 2nd time in 2 years

Video released proves female cop summarily executed a man for trying to help a stray dog and for refusing to show a drivers license!

Retired Drug Task Force cop turns out to be a drug dealer

Sanitation and gas tax dominates

ARIZONA: Video update of National Guard support ops for U.S. Customs and Boarder Protection (Border Patrol) at Port of Nogales, Operation Guardian Support:

CALIFORNIA: Taxpayer funded General Dynamics eliminating 1-thousand-493 NASSCO jobs (according to official WARN) in San Diego, by the end of September, supposedly due to an accident involving a USN ship and a new floating dry dock! Electronic voting software company Everyone Counts eliminating 18 jobs in La Jolla.  Texas based prison contractor ISI Detention Contracting Group suddenly halted ops in Orange, 27 jobs suddenly gone.

Border Patrol cop arrested for ‘strangling’ traveler 

Whittier police officer arrested for sexually assaulting 2 minors

Politician and his wife arrested for illegal use of campaign money

Illegal gun dealer was a cop!

California spends more than half its yearly taxpayer funded fire budget in one month!

COLORADO:  Fort Collins expects slowing tax revenues, despite legalized ganja

FLORIDA: Taxpayer funded GCR eliminating 35 jobs at Cape Canaveral, in September.  Taxpayer funded Lockheed Martin-Sikorsky eliminating 5-hundred jobs, in Jupiter, by the end of December!

Police officer arrested, accused of breaking prisoner’s leg

Prison guard arrested for drugs

Yes, Rick Scott did cut $700 million from Florida’s water management

GEORGIA: congressional candidate arrested for murder

congressional candidate sentenced to six months in jail

GUAM:  New Island Sustainability Community Advisory Board formed

IDAHO: Taxpayer funded software problem closes driver’s license offices, hinders police

FBI arrests ten people for selling fake cellphones

One Third of Middleton police department serves in Idaho Army National Guard

Idaho prisons mulling 20 percent taxpayer funded budget boost

“Idaho has the highest incarceration rate of any of its surrounding states, but the lowest rate of violent crime. The state is currently considering a $500 million prison expansion.”

Canyon County blames massive budget increase on prison overcrowding

South Idaho deputy’s shooting of family dog investigated

Idaho schools chief’s new security plan may cause chaos

State leaders report a surprise $100-million increase in tax collections!

State government sells-off 51 Priest Lake properties for $26-million

Kootenai County wants to jack-up property taxes

Idaho County wants to jack-up property taxes

City of Meridian reduces budget yet jacks-up property taxes

Twin Falls reduces budget yet jacks-up property taxes

Idaho Falls police demand more taxpayer funding

Boise Fire Department ‘loses’ $17-million in taxpayer funding!

Lewiston Airport sees increase in operating costs, yet suffers 60% decrease in flights

Problems getting worse for the now taxpayer funded Portneuf Wellness Complex (I must point out this ‘wellness complex’ was originally built without Bannock County taxpayer approval as it was touted as being funded with donations)

Bannock County official placed on paid administrative leave

Pocatello’s massive taxpayer burdening Northgate interchange project delayed until at least next summer

Pocatello’s community access channel will shut down

Zimbabwe man who lived in Pocatello for 15 years to be deported

Troubled University of Idaho reports big drop in funding for athletic programs

College of Idaho warns of budget cuts and layoffs due to crashing enrollments and funding

Paranoid grade schools cut operating budgets in order to increase spending on police-state ‘security’!

ILLINOIS:  Politician’s campaign staffer arrested for attacking political opponents

INDIANA: Arrest caught on video ends with cop being fired

LOUISIANA: Saint Tammany Parish laying off 21 people, as part of an earlier warning that as many as 40 Parish employees would lose their jobs due to local sales tax collections crashing by millions of U.S. dollars.

10 new laws that could affect your daily life

Oak Grove cop charged with rape

Shreveport police officer arrested

MARYLAND: Baltimore cop resigns after ‘disturbing’ video

MICHIGAN: County cop arrested for being drunk and fighting with city cops

MISSISSIPPI:  12th Mississippi prisoner Dies in August

MISSOURI: Ferguson officer fired for stalking, assault

NEVADA:  911 dispatcher arrested 

NEW HAMPSHIRE:  Top Democrat arrested for domestic violence

NEW JERSEY: Mail-order cocaine and a top cop’s arrest spark new calls to kill an entire police department!

NEW MEXICO: Oil boom drives tax revenues to record high

NEW YORK: Taxpayer funded General Dynamics eliminating 31 CSRA InfoTech(IT)-national security jobs in Fort Drum, by the end of October, officially due to loss of contract.

Cop arrested for grabbing women

NORTH CAROLINA:  Dozens of people arrested in one county for ‘illegal voting’!

congressional candidate arrested on stalking charges

OHIO:  Cop arrested, charged with drug trafficking

Female corrections officer arrested

OKLAHOMA: taxpayer funded Veterans Center doctor arrested for attacking a taxpayer funded cop

Cop arrested, accused of choking son

PENNSYLVANIA: Prison guard arrested for drug smuggling

SOUTH CAROLINA:  Cop charged with killing his wife

TENNESSEE: Lack of tax revenues threaten police departments

County promises no tax increases or budget cuts, in return for selling taxpayer owned hospital

TEXAS:  Entire police force turns out to be criminal gang as Series of indictments nearly wipes out Llano Police Department

Female cop arrested twice in 3 weeks

police officer found guilty of murder

Cop arrested Just 10 Days After Being Sworn-In

Cop spending just 15 years in prison for killing high school student

Mansfield mayor demands tax relief for home owners

VIRGINIA: Taxpayer funded General Dynamics eliminating 101 CSRA InfoTech(IT)-national security jobs in Chesapeake, by the end of September, as a result of taking over taxpayer funded CSRA this year!

Police Officer Arrested in Death of Baby Daughter

WASHINGTON:   eighth prisoner to die in Spokane County custody

cop arrested again in domestic violence case

Spokane police officer pleads guilty

police sergeant sentenced to 7-years in prison for sexually assaulting another cop!

Ongoing jump in retail sales tax revenues allows city of Spokane Valley to suspend planned property tax increase, now expects nearly $4-million surplus!

Washington DC: CIA officer faces arrest 

Former head of CDC (and Obama lackey) Tom Frieden arrested

Congressmen arrested for Insider Trading

How many of Donald Trump’s advisers have been convicted?

Three Men Arrested for Impersonating Senate Staff

Trump gives $717 billion taxpayer funded military bill a green light

Trump cancels pay raises for federal employees

Senate increases taxpayer spending on the National Institutes of Health to $39-billion!

Federal budget deficit increases 79%

WYOMING: Greybull police officer arrested on federal charge

Drugs, the American Way, August 2018: ‘SEVEN DAYS OF HELL’ ‘1.5 MILLION LETHAL DOSES’

Dumbing Down the U.S.A., August 2018: BARRICADES, ACTIVE SHOOTERS & MAGA

ObamaCare-ACA death spiral, August 2018: “SIGNIFICANT FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES”

U.S. government shenanigans, July 2018: TAXES & NEW LAWS PROVE IT’S NO LAND OF THE FREE!

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Teachers more violent & criminal than students?: Dumbing Down U.S.A., October 2018

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”-George Orwell (aka Eric Arthur Blair)

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.

Google Is Teaching Children How to Act Online

Why Are We Still Teaching Reading the Wrong Way?

Incomplete (Tip-o-the-Iceberg) list of publicly announced education related layoffs, shutdowns and crimes, October 2018:

ALABAMA:  Birmingham based for-profit Education Corporation of America shutting down 17 of its Virginia College campuses across several states due to crashing enrollment, affecting about 8-thousand-5-hundred students who thought a private college was better!  Executives blame a ‘good job market’ for stealing prospective students, but reports say the for-profit system fails to meet academic standards.  Virginia College students race to finish degrees before campuses close

West Alabama mom threatened teacher, kicked school resource officer 

Struggling Sumter schools face more questions

ARIZONA: After five decades Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving now chapter 11 bankruptcy busted.

Education board rebuffs Christian-centric academic standards

Parents spent $700K in taxpayer funded school voucher money on beauty supplies!

ARKANSAS: Waiver sought on dismissal of teachers in Little Rock

At-risk kids swell Arkansas truancy rate

teacher fired after arrest in sex case

CALIFORNIA: Conduent Education Services eliminating 18 jobs in Long Beach, a couple of days after Xmas, and then an additional nine jobs eliminated by the end of January 2019.

Former San Diego high school student who claimed sexual abuse by a teacher settles for taxpayer funded $400,000

Los Angeles Unified School District will force taxpayers to pay $5 million to settle one sex crime lawsuit

University of Southern California to Pay taxpayer funded $215 Million Over Sex Abuse

campaign for state superintendent costs more than most Senate races. 

COLORADO: University of Northern Colorado warning of layoffs and forced early retirements due to failed efforts to dig themselves out of a $10-million USD hole.

Weld County teacher on leave for allegedly sending inappropriate messages to student

CONNECTICUT: teacher’s aide accused of sexual assault had similar incident in another state

DELAWARE: teachers’ union boss resigns over old blog posts

High school football official receives death threat

FLORIDA:  Lawsuit claims prep school football players were inappropriately touched

High School Teacher Arrested, Charged With Distribution of Child Sexual Abuse Video

Fashion teacher faces more than 353 charges

teacher suspended without pay for helping non-English-speaking students take standardized math test

GEORGIA: Savannah State University warning of mass layoffs due to what I call DSS: “…our enrollment has declined for two consecutive years, and a drop in enrollment means a decrease in tuition, fee and state-allocated revenue. This has resulted in a budget reduction for our current fiscal year. We also are preparing for reductions in state funding that will impact the next two budget cycles.”-President Cheryl Dozier

Transgender policy in Georgia school assault case

choir teacher accused of sexual battery 

So much for gun control as Student stabs teacher with 8-inch butcher knife! 

GUAM: Diploma scam linked to enrollment drop

investigation of profanity screaming teacher

High school teacher charged with ‘theft by deception’ and drug possession

HAWAII:  Teacher arrested for alleged assault

‘Christian’ school pays $65M to 32 sex abuse victims

IDAHO:  New numbers show that after seven years of trying, taxpayer funded Idaho education has failed to improved

Trial for teacher accused of feeding live puppy to turtle, in front of students, postponed

Boise School District’s water system full of lead

ILLINOIS:  Parents reject ‘Bring your own Computer to School’ policy

Schools offer professional development for parents

teacher charged with attempted murder

INDIANA: Driver charged with reckless homicide in crash at school bus stop

Two teachers found dead (murder-suicide?)

school district supplies gun safes 

‘Very sad day’ at Valparaiso Law School

IOWA:  Private Simpson College eliminating 13 jobs (the second layoff in 2018) and eliminating its art program due to what I call DSS: “The higher education field is changing and tightening. Iowa has a very competitive academic field.”-President Jay Simmons

historically high suicide rates

Teacher in Blackface at Party (oh my gawd, it’s the end of the  world!). But wait, nobody got upset about nationally recognized TV weatherman in Whiteface, especially after same nationally recognized weatherman criticized another TV personality for pointing out hypocrisy of condemning Blackface?

Federal court rules that Iowa’s Special Ed policies are wrong

Finally, Iowa City gets rid of solitary confinement ‘padded cells’ for grade school students

KANSAS: Worsening Teacher Shortage 

Wichita mom says teacher cyber-bullied kindergartner

KENTUCKY: Former Teacher accused of ‘Predatory Sexual Grooming’

graduation disconnect

LOUISIANA: elementary school teacher accused of child rape

Substitute teacher had sex with teen in classroom

Sexual comments, unsolicited hugs: Gretna teacher arrested

Elementary teacher arrested for possession of alcohol in class 

MAINE: University of Southern Maine offered students credit for protesting federal Supreme Court nominee!

failure to implement proficiency-based education

Elementary School Teacher Disappears

coach’s tirade against student goes online

MARYLAND: teen arrested after making threats against high school

After Player’s Death, Coach and Athletic Director Keep Their Jobs

music teacher faces rape charges

ACLU joins challenge to Prince George’s summer school 

MICHIGAN:  Oregon based KinderCare Education laying off 43 people in Troy due to KinderCare’s takeover of Troy based rival Rainbow Child Care Center.

Substitute teacher contractor suddenly shuts down, schools scramble for substitute teachers

University of Michigan gets $20M to design Israeli made robots!

relationships — not money — are the key to improving schools

MINNESOTA: University of Minnesota reviews Greek policy after student death

teacher on leave after tweeting “kill Kavanaugh?”

Nearly 100 School Districts Awarded taxpayer funded Anti-Violence Grants

Political candidate to return Globe University officials’ donations after school was revealed to be fraudulent

School Board Votes Unanimously to Terminate Special Ed teacher under investigation for cocaine possession

MISSISSIPPI: Sanctions against high school band after questionable program

Teacher shortage leads to accreditation trouble 

High School teacher investigated for improper relationship 

MISSOURI: Day care teachers accused of organizing preschool-age fight club 

teacher indicted for child enticement

Former teacher wins lawsuit claiming the Kansas City Public School system maintains a “hostile work environment”!

MONTANA: University of Montana forced 22 faculty to promise to ‘leave’ by 2021, in an effort to save $5-million USD.

Taxpayers forced to settle with student ‘sex’ victim of high school teacher

Charges dropped against teen for school threats

Social media threat shuts down White Sulphur Springs schools

NEBRASKA: Superintendent in school lunch kangaroo chili incident resigns

Chef fired after serving kangaroo meat to students (I don’t understand, people in Australia eat it, isn’t there a food crisis going on?)

NEVADA: Elementary teacher sentenced to 20 years for forcing high school students to have sex with her

special ed director, fired for ‘bullying’, accuses school principals of breaking law

Comparison of teachers with other jobs makes unrealistic conclusion

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Kids with anxiety so epidemic that Milton Town School District conducted a Parenting the Anxious Child event

Substitute Teacher Shortage Affects Districts Statewide

NEW JERSEY: teacher accused of sex with 13-year-old

teacher faces suspension after federal fraud indictment over health care claims

school gym closed due to mercury poisoning

NEW MEXICO:  path to higher education is changing

NEW YORK:  Without warning the 47 years old non-profit Cohoes Community Center shutdown, 72 people suddenly jobless, parents in shock as they were called to pick-up their kids, the center is under investigation to find out why it has almost half-a-million dollars of debt.  It was revealed that Molloy College suddenly canceled its contract with food service provider Compass Group-Chartwells, 26 jobs gone.  It was revealed that The Research Foundation for the State University of New York lost a contract, 74 jobs gone days after Xmas.

Bonuses of Up to $8000 to Teach in Struggling New York Schools

New York City teacher salaries increase

NORTH CAROLINA: Bullying Led to Fatal Shooting of Student 

Why can’t North Carolina kids read? 

NORTH DAKOTA: Native American Graduation Rate Improves

OHIO:  High School teacher indicted on sex charges

Junior High School art teacher resigns due to undisclosed complaints 

the demise of an online charter school is roiling Ohio politics

desperate Ohio State University launches first-of-its-kind comprehensive e-sports (video game playing) program

Ohio schools don’t have  air conditioning?

OKLAHOMA: School Support Staffers Work Extra Jobs (gee, like a lot of other people)

Audit reveals how superintendent wasted taxpayer funds on himself

teacher under investigation for allegedly sending inappropriate messages

Governor’s Race Pits Teachers Against Oil and Gas

OREGON: Still struggling Oregon Shakespeare Festival laid off 16 people and cut work hours for the rest, due to “significant financial losses” as a result of being smoked-out by never ending wildfires surrounding the venue.

appointee delays release of school ratings

Governor orders release of school performance ratings

Taxpayer funded website to combat school absenteeism?

PENNSYLVANIA:  delay of high school graduation test, again

test scores remain flat 

costs for special education outpacing taxpayer funding

Entire school district shuts down due to transportation problems!

Superintendent denies spying on board members

Female christian school teacher joins growing list of men accused of sex crimes

PUERTO RICO: Puerto Rico’s First Charter School

SOUTH CAROLINA:  drunk University of South Carolina students overwhelming Emergency Rooms and causing mayhem

South Carolina students bomb the ACT, falling behind Mississippi

Despite students failing the ACT, teachers are demanding to be given the majority of the state government budget surplus

Student dies after shooting at high school

SOUTH DAKOTA:  superintendents report rise in school threats

RHODE ISLAND: Taxpayer funded Naval Undersea Warfare Center paying 143 taxpayer funded employees to attend the University of Rhode Island full time. Another 139 will be paid to attend universities part time.

Bus driver strike shuts down schools?

School buses set on fire

TENNESSEE: After 71 years the private Fountainhead College of Technology shutting down because they can’t compete with “free education offered by the state of Tennessee” (just remember, it ain’t really ‘free’, it’s paid for by raping taxpayers).

Top scoring (ah em) teacher accused of sex crimes

A ‘christian’ student kills herself at a public school, her ‘christian’ mother says it’s because the government won’t let god into taxpayer funded schools!

TEXAS:  Crosby Independent School District eliminating 129 jobs, supposedly due to a “financial emergency” caused by the incompetence of former administrators who threw taxpayer money at too many construction projects and hired too many employees!  God’s own Hardin-Simmons University shutting down dozens of undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as shutting down five campus extensions, due to The Rapture, I mean crashing enrollments (DSS).

Texas property owners forced to pay lion’s share of education funding!

Texas might lose 33-million in federal taxpayer dollars, for special education funding, because fed’s say Texas special education is a failure

Despite 6 probation violations, teacher who struck autistic student somehow avoids jail

sharp increase in special education students

More proof it’s a police state: High school students must take class on how to behave when pulled over by a cop, or else they can’t graduate

substitute teacher accused of touching multiple elementary students….claims he was raised in ‘touchy feely family’

Teacher Accused of Drunken Sex with Her Students 

teacher charged with improper relationship 

UTAH: Ex-boyfriend kills University of Utah student on campus

Why don’t more college students teach? It’s more than the money

‘Men’s Week’ posters at Utah school sparks backlash (but if somebody tore down a women’s week poster there’d be holy hell to pay)

VERMONT: Taxpayers forced to pay $31-million to encourage high school graduates to go to college!

Vermont State Colleges System sees continued decline in enrollment

VIRGINIA: teacher pleads guilty in ‘celebgate’ case

Missing High School Teacher’s Body Recovered

 High school student accused of sexual misconduct blames the school

Richmond Public Schools has the worst graduation rate 

University of Virginia bans ten people

WASHINGTON: Art Institute of Seattle suddenly laid off ten people, leaving just three instructors on the full time payroll!  Tacoma Public Schools conducted its first ever layoffs due a budget deficit of $23.4-million USD, and a strike by teachers demanding mo-money, 19 positions suddenly eliminated: “I don’t want the public to think that we’re going to cut this money and everything’s going to be the same. It’s not.”-Superintendent Carla Santorno

Supreme Court upholds most of charter school law

WASHINGTON DC:  Washington Ballet is struggling with empty seats and a $3 million debt 

WEST VIRGINIA:  Special Education teacher pleads not guilty to child abuse

WISCONSIN:  ’emergency license’ teachers are running classrooms

substitute teacher charged with sexual assault

WYOMING: The grade school with only one student

Dumbing Down the U.S.A., September 2018:  “PERCEIVED THREAT”

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“perceived threat”: Dumbing Down the U.S.A., September 2018

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”-George Orwell (aka Eric Arthur Blair)

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 (Tip-o-the-Iceberg) list of publicly announced education related layoffs, shutdowns and crimes, September 2018:

AMERICANS TRUST TEACHERS, BUT DON’T WANT THEIR CHILD TO BECOME ONE 

We’ve so overscheduled our kids that doctors are now prescribing playtime

ALABAMA: Transgender student sues school over mistreatment

elementary teacher charged with sex abuse of student

teacher, coach faces sex crime charges involving a student

ASU financial aid woes

school band briefly drops ‘Dixie’ 

How 9/11 Is Being Taught To A Younger Generation

elementary student shot with illegal stolen gun

ALASKA: drug testing, new sexual harassment policy

Kodiak District Closure, due to what I call DSS

student arrested over threat against schools

ARIZONA: Prescott High School invaded and locked down by police, overnight

A Creationist Will Be Reviewing Arizona’s Standards on How to Teach Science

The job Americans won’t take: Arizona looks to Philippines for teachers

ARKANSAS: School district targeting chronic absentee rating

State seizes control of Pine Bluff School District

College enrollment slips again, for all five state universities

Catholic schools struggle with what I call DSS

teacher under sexual misconduct investigation

student accused of touching teacher’s buttocks

teacher pleads not guilty to sexually assaulting student in her home.

teacher who clashed with TV reporter found not guilty

CALIFORNIA: Conduent Education Services issued a layoff WARN for its Long Beach ops, 20 jobs gone a week before Xmas.

children fall behind before they start school

Music Teacher Accused Of Molesting Student

police escort sister of slain deputy to junior high school

LAUSD is ‘living off reserves’ and running out of time 

new state law requires schools to test water for lead

students pumped to vote — but not as Democrats or Republicans

She Dropped Out of High School. Now She’s President of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank!

COLORADO:  school district announces four-day weeks

SCHOOL DISTRICT CANCELS DATABASE CONTRACT AFTER DISCOVERING EASY ACCESS TO HARDCORE PORN

Student arrested at Mountain Range High School 

teacher gets 40 years to life in prison

Taxpayers forced to pay-out $11.5-million USD because teacher sexually assaulted students 

CONNECTICUT: Norwich Free Academy coach arrested

Berlin High School teacher arrested

Enfield High School student stabbed and killed

juvenile detention officer injuries increase

 Yale removes prestigious honor from professor

DELAWARE: Academy of Public Safety and Security shuts down without warning!

Teacher shortage forces schools to offer to repay $10k of new hire’s student loans

FLORIDA:  teacher says she was fired because she didn’t give credit to students who didn’t do homework

‘Teacher of the Year’ Accused of Exchanging Lewd Photos

7 students hospitalized after eating Nicorette at elementary school, in contest to see who could eat the most of the drug filled anti-smoking ‘candy’!

high school football coach told player to ‘commit suicide’ 

GEORGIA: SCHOOL BRINGS BACK PADDLING 

graduation rate rises to all-time high

substitute teacher sent boys inappropriate texts, pictures

GUAM: Guam Department of Education blames skyrocketing operating costs and lack of taxpayer funding for hiring freeze

Typhoon Mangkhut caused power outage resulting in massive school shutdown

Health and safety of students threatened as janitorial contract expires

HAWAII:  School closures due to Tropical Storm Olivia

bullying caused 6-year-old boy 2 concussions at school

550 teacher vacancies prompts ‘Be a hero. Be a teacher’ campaign

State education department’s student discipline rules criticized

IDAHO:  Districts impose $9.2 million in emergency taxpayer raping levies!

East Idaho school ranked both high and low performing?

The taxpayer funded project to turn the vacant Pine Ridge Mall Sears (in Chubbuck) into a charter school got a little more complicated and expensive.  Newly revealed plans show the west side mall parking lot being turned into a playground, add to that the Sears’ south side parking will be used for the school, this means if mall business ever returns to its late 1990s levels then there’s going to be a major problem with parking!

ILLINOIS:  University of Illinois study says lack of school landscaping affects math scores in poor urban areas!

Woman clears school with fake gunman phone call

teacher accused of having sex with student fired

40% of high school graduates go on to out-of-state universities because in-state universities are too expensive

Illinois State University so desperate for students it Focuses on international students

INDIANA:  After 116 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Indianapolis based Harrison College (originally Indiana Business College) suddenly shutdown all 11 campuses in Indiana, Ohio and North Carolina, with only a few days warning! It’s blamed on lack of money caused by what I call DSS.

teacher reaches plea deal in child molesting case

teacher arrested, accused of having sex with junior high student

Bus Driver Arrested for Allegedly Allowing Students to Drive the bus.

17 Indiana colleges waiving fees

IOWA:  Suspicious Package Situation shuts down school

Taxpayers approve of spending additional $55-million USD on Linn-Mar Community School District

dumb student tried to shoot teacher in the face, forgets to unlock safety switch

teacher sentenced for secretly making videos of boys showering

University of Northern Iowa employee killed by steam pipe

KANSAS: Suicide deaths reach a record high

teacher faces child sexual exploitation charge

KENTUCKY: Sullivan University suddenly laid off 16 people due to what I call DSS during the summer class period, local news media reported that the for-profit school has been eliminating jobs since August 2017.

Threat against Kentucky school results in California school lock down, due to similar names of schools!

LOUISIANA:  junior high school blasted for ‘gross’ and ‘inappropriate’ spirit week

taxpayer funded public school sued for promoting christianity

Teacher Claims Black People ‘Act Like Animals’ 

MAINE: teacher who won $1 million to be sentenced for shoplifting

MARYLAND: Blatant case of ‘grade inflation’ as thousands of high school students in one district suddenly get A grades in math!

Baltimore schools face nearly $3 billion maintenance backlog

University of Maryland School of Social Work gets federal taxpayer funded $30-million USD grant

MASSACHUSETTS: Teacher caught on video putting kid inside game machine

Baby Found Unresponsive At Watertown Child Care Center

MICHIGAN: female student stabbed to death in classroom with kitchen knife by another female student  (so much for gun control)

high school bullied into dropping Homecoming Queen title

MINNESOTA: Student dies in frat house

Special education teacher under investigation for cocaine

retired Minnesota tennis coach arrested in Wisconsin underage sex sting

schools want taxpayers to shell out even more money for security

MISSISSIPPI: After 13 years Virginia College suddenly shutdown “because of the final adverse action taken by another recognized accrediting agency.” 

Driver dead after crashing into school bus

Schools shutdown due to storm Gordon

No jail time for teacher after sexual battery plea

MISSOURI: school district to reward attendance with money

teacher charged with possessing child porn

banks offer financial literacy software to schools

school district forces taxpayers to settle mud-pit injury lawsuit

MONTANA: University of Montana enrollment drop

sex abuse claims against school trainer

Defunct Boarding School Settles Lawsuit

NEBRASKA: Carbon monoxide shuts down school 

rabid bat at Omaha school

Pic of gun locks down school

NEVADA:  theater teacher arrested on sex charge

teacher arrested on drug charges

Dumb-ass Professor who shot himself to protest Trump now faces felony charges

NEW HAMPSHIRE:  College lecturers being fired because of their age?

NEW JERSEY: In Westwood, after 40 years Shaw’s Book Shop shutdown because the owner took the end of his lease as a sign to “move on”.

Junior high teacher wants sympathy for Osama bin Laden

teacher ordered to pay $1.15M to student who claims sex abuse

NEW MEXICO:  mysterious 11-day closure of Sunspot Solar Observatory caused by child porn!

Hypocritical taxpayer funded school blocks student’s attempt to form christian ‘pro-life’ school club, despite allowing other christian clubs

NEW YORK:  Barron’s Educational Series suddenly shutdown its Hauppauge test prep ops, 62 jobs gone without warning due to the operation being sold to a competitor. Lighthouse Guild-Heilbrunn issued a shutdown WARN for its education services for blind people, 31 jobs gone by Xmas.

Bronx teacher avoids jail and keeps teaching certificate after oral sex acts on 14 years old student

Professors Face Drug and Sex crimes charges

NORTH CAROLINA: Closings, cancellations due to Hurricane Florence

NORTH DAKOTA: Ever hear of School Lunch Day?

OHIO: student arrested for high school shooting threat

Female high school Teacher Accused of Sexual Battery

high school teacher suspended with-out pay

 Nearly 600 teachers disciplined!

Ohio State University uses scholarship endowment to pay for fundraisers!

OKLAHOMA: Teacher shortage results in Hundreds of emergency teaching certifications

Oklahoma State University so desperate for money that it’ll start selling beer?

Fewer teachers graduating Oklahoma universities

OREGON: high school football player sues for $38 million

Hazardous Mobile Home Abandoned At Elementary School

Schools are for learning, not homeless housing

PENNSYLVANIA:  School enrollment lowest in seven years

Which public schools had the most dropouts

High School Delayed Due to Social Media Threat

Mold contamination forces high school to shut down 

School Bus Driver Sues Union and School District

School bus collides with truck

School District Fleet Manager Charged with Overbilling taxpayers

first Catholic ‘sober’ high school opens in U.S.

Teachers leave local schools at especially high rates, new study says

Teacher’s Home Raided by FBI

PUERTO RICO: Enrollment in schools continues to fall 

SOUTH CAROLINA:  schools closed for three weeks due to Florence and flooding

teacher forced her student into sex, and docked his grade

SOUTH DAKOTA:Protecting campus free speech

Student enrollment down for the 2018-19 school year

RHODE ISLAND: What happens when you pay students to get ready for college?

TENNESSEE:  teacher at Rossview High charged with sex crimes

elementary school teacher accused of abusing infant

Nine Hamilton County schools among the state’s worst

weather shuts down schools

‘strategic retention’ of teachers by effective principals

TEXAS:  teacher bullies pro-Trump student

sex scandals involving Houston-area teachers in 2018

School evacuated after staff get sick

state funding for schools to drop

Taxpayer funded Board of Ed wants Moses to be taught in Classrooms

UTAH: high teacher turnover impacts Utah

Norovirus keeps more than 6-hundred students in one county from school

VERMONT: 16 schools have contaminated drinking water

Student newspaper censorship

High School Guidance Director Faked Transcript

$250,000 in taxpayer funding grants available for state Farm to School Grant Program

school shooting leads to new Vermont gun laws

VIRGINIA: spy agencies come to Northern Virginia Community College

Hurricane Florence

students upset that Robinson Secondary School is denying two male students from being selected as homecoming kings

Student struck by lightning at junior high school

WASHINGTON: School Lemonade Spiked with Laxatives?

Teacher shortage prompts para-educator program

WASHINGTON DC:  high school football player punished for being homeless!

Teachers’ Union Fired Him For Being homosexual

teacher pleads not guilty in sex assault

principal caught mocking student’s sex assault claim

Universal preschool

WEST VIRGINIA:  High School Student Arrested in Connection to Bomb Threat on 9/11

High school seniors register to vote

Full-time enrollment down at West Virginia University

Mom shoots kills her own kids as they came home from school!

WISCONSIN: Police chase locks down several schools

WYOMING: school district officials deny claims they knew of hazing 

student dies after incident in school parking lot

“perceived threat” to Natrona County High School

Dumbing Down the U.S.A., August 2018: BARRICADES, ACTIVE SHOOTERS & MAGA

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Barricades, active shooters & MAGA: Dumbing Down the U.S.A., August 2018

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”-George Orwell (aka Eric Arthur Blair)

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 (Tip-o-the-Iceberg) list of publicly announced education related layoffs, shutdowns and crimes, August 2018:

U.S. News & World Report: Teachers can’t read? Teachers’ Reading Tests Inadequate in Most States

ALABAMA: Tag, kickball, Red Rover, musical chairs: Games deemed ‘inappropriate’

Alabama violates 1st Amendment by Putting a christian god in taxpayer funded Schools 

Teacher Held on Child Porn Charges Also a Foster Parent

ALASKA: Finally, after more than a century of repression, taxpayer funded Native American School District begins Native American language program

Fish heads dumped near school attracts bear and police

teacher accused of abusing autistic student

ARIZONA: Thousands of untrained teachers are leading public-school students

The majority of students failed the state AzMERIT test

ARKANSAS: Elementary school employee killed while taking out the trash!

Judge blocks four school districts from trying to stop parents transferring their kids to outside districts!

elementary teacher robbed in front of her school!

CALIFORNIA:  4 Rancho Cucamonga students, at two schools, have committed suicide within days of each other!

Lockdown At San Francisco’s Balboa High, four students arrested

Student arrested for slapping teacher and stealing Make America Great Again (MAGA) hat from another student!

elite Brentwood School teacher is charged with sexually abusing student

Sexual abuse cases involving three teachers at Redlands Unified School District cost taxpayers at least $15-million!

Fewer Californians favor raising teacher pay (I wonder why?)

Schools still waiting for state bond money

the rate of growth for charter schools in California has slowed to a crawl over the past five years.

More proof California is a money pit as California ‘non-profit’ education organizations take lion’s share of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation education grants (almost half of the nationwide grants going to California non-profits)!

Monsanto to pay school groundskeeper $289-million because of cancer caused by Round-Up

COLORADO: school district goes to 4-day weeks to cut costs

Colorado ranked 10th for school threats

Not taxpayer funded public school Full-day kindergarten costs Colorado families thousands in out-of-pocket fees

Low Pay, High Turnover Plagues Preschool Teachers

schools brace for state intervention

Cop Tells Teacher ‘You’re Dead’ 

teacher pleads guilty to child abuse after forcing student to stand for Pledge of Allegiance

CONNECTICUT:  A lot of taxpayer money, and time wasted, as Israel Putnam Elementary School shutdown because of a pressure cooker found a block away.  Police blew up the cooking device, which they later revealed contained no explosive materials to begin with!

High School teacher arrested, charged for ‘inappropriate relationship’

Arts school teacher charged with sexual assault

Three School Employees on Leave As Police Investigate ‘touching a student’ accusations

Seven employees of elite boarding school accused of sex crimes

Cafeteria Workers Stole Nearly $500000 in Lunch Money

More Than 300 Students Displaced After Fire

DELAWARE: Janitor charged in fatal shooting at elementary school

Schools Still Seeking Teachers as School Year Starts

University of Delaware is America’s No. 1 party school

21 taxpayer funded workers in Delaware, including teachers, have 40-plus tax-sucking years on the job

Retired teacher charged with sexual assault

FLORIDA: teacher shortage is ‘real, and it’s going to get worse,’ 

Florida Teacher Arrested on Canadian Child Sex Charge

Shooting at high school football game 

Florida school failed Parkland shooter, report says

Florida school shooting families want board removed

A teacher battling cancer ran out of sick days

GEORGIA: Suspects in Missing Teacher’s Death Admit Slaying

teacher caught on camera choking student

schools ignore database that tracks teacher violations

teachers go on hunger strike

Privately managed charter schools have more teacher turnover than standard public schools

School Superintendent Placed on Leave for alleged racist statements

Anti-Trump parents outraged over junior high school’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) display (as if that’s a crime)!

GUAM: Education staff shortages linger

Trial begins for PE teacher accused of touching student

HAWAII:  Why College Now Starts In High School 

The Hunt For New Teachers

Hawaii Turns To Military In Search For More Teachers

IDAHO:  While many local Idaho school districts struggle, grade school students on Mountain Home Air Force Base got 2-hundred new backpacks filled with supplies, courtesy of the Airman and Family Readiness Center’s Back to School Brigade.

Jury finds teacher who had sex with teen not guilty of rape

teacher to change plea in child sexual assault case

Idaho State University athletic director suddenly placed on administrative leave, no reason given!

Idaho’s teachers are paid less today than two decades ago (just like most everybody else, so join the club)

$99.5 million bond fails in Idaho Falls School District 91

arrogant state superintendent wants taxpayers to fork over $21-million USD for a security plan that wasn’t even suggested by official state school security administrators!

list of lowest-performing public schools

In 1979 one Boise elementary school was considered cutting edge, now it’s a money pit

ILLINOIS: man arrested for threatening school

Priests Accused of Sexual Misconduct Moving Away From School

School dance team coach forced to resign after Dance Team’s pro-police social media pics turned out looking more like pro-upskirt pics!

Three quarters of Illinois kids not be ready for school

Teens are anxious and depressed, and turning to the school nurse

governor O-Ks allowing medical cannabis at schools

Governor Vetoes $40000 Minimum Teacher Salary

More teachers exiting

Teacher Charged With Murder

INDIANA: School Administrator ‘Stunned’ After Being Suspended for being homosexual 

teacher charged with school cocaine use set to plead guilty

Schools …. Advising illegal immigrants

8 injured, 13 arrested after large fight breaks out at Arsenal Tech High School

IOWA: Iowa City wants to make things more ‘equal’ and ‘efficient’ by creating a very complicated rezoning of schools based on demographics of racism and income!

Teacher, Coach Charged with Sexual Abuse and Exploitation

teacher loses license for being intoxicated at work

teacher charged with sending harassing letters to school officials

student charged with attempted murder after bringing loaded gun to school

illegal immigrant charged with murder of University of Iowa student

KANSAS:  Christian School Co-Founder Charged With Child Sex Crimes

teacher under investigation for child porn kills self

Weapon found inside junior high school

increases number of school crisis drills

KENTUCKY: Kentucky Teachers No Longer Need Master’s Degrees

Choir Teacher Charged With Sexual Abuse

Federal taxpayers give school more than $138-thousand USD for mass shooting!

School threats in Kentucky rose dramatically

LOUISIANA:  Christian school kicks out girl with hair extensions

superintendent who got big pay raise placed on paid leave

Teacher accused of hitting special needs student charged with second count

MAINE:  teacher sentenced for sexually assaulting girl

Teacher-student texting under new scrutiny 

Maine christians demanding federal taxpayers fund their christian schools!

MARYLAND: ‘Dark side of college sports’

trauma training for teachers

91% Of Md. Teachers Buy Their Own School Supplies

Art Teacher Arrested After Biting State Trooper

Former students allege decades-old sexual abuse at private school

MASSACHUSETTS: High School Teacher Charged With Possession of Child Porn

Retired Music Teacher Accused of Raping Student 

Teacher Charged With Indecent Assault 

school nurses receive mass shooting trauma training

Massachusetts colleges are the most homosexual friendly

MICHIGAN: school sign calls for detox

teacher who has porn site under investigation

Report reveals continued ‘shell game’ with Michigan education dollars

MINNESOTA:  court rules against teacher injured in student attack

discipline disparities at MN schools

Bus driver shortages are the new norm 

MISSISSIPPI: 12-Year-Old Has Asthma Attack at School, Dies

Why Mississippi Teachers Are Crowdfunding Classrooms

Jackson schools start school years missing 175 teachers

MISSOURI:  Teachers Are Moonlighting as Airbnb Hosts

Teacher Given Suspended Sentence for Student Affair

School District Embraces Gender-Neutral Bathrooms

St. Louis University and Drury University misreported data

MONTANA: 17-year-old charged in shooting at Sentinel High School

teacher accused of having sex with student 25 times

teacher pleads no contest to molesting students

Teacher With Assault Record Resigns

NEBRASKA: schools offered sanctuary for illegal immigrant families

math teacher kills self

NEVADA: Washoe County School District forcing taxpayers to build houses for teachers, in attempt to address teacher shortage

Nevada schools have largest average class sizes

teacher convicted of child sex abuse mysteriously dies in prison

PE teacher arrested after incident with student

students arrested for allegedly threatening behavior

Student arrested for loaded gun

NEW HAMPSHIRE:  11 Prep School Staff Accused of Abuse

Teacher Sentenced to Four Months, banned from teaching

Bus Driver, Kids Injured in Crash

Schools Not Receiving Expanded Medicaid Funds

NEW JERSEY:  Recess is now mandatory 

Teacher forced to resign after allegedly forcing school bus off the road 

Charges of spreading facebook threats against junior high school teacher dropped

Smoke and mirrors as new school funding plan increases state level taxpayer funding supposedly to offset local level tax breaks!

 in-school laundry room to combat bullying (?)

NEW MEXICO:  Over one-third of NM schools get D, F grades

High School Teacher Had Sex With Girls

School-funding lawsuit

NEW YORK:  Rockefeller University canceled its food service contract with Compass Group, 36 jobs affected.  College of Mount Saint Vincent canceled its food service contract with Compass Group, 43 jobs affected.  William Floyd School District canceled its contract with Floyd Bus Company, 276 jobs affected!

NYC junior high schools Face Concentrated Poverty

Free Tuition for All NYU Medical Students

Back-to-School Shopping: Armed Guards, Cameras and Metal Detectors

NORTH CAROLINA: After 11 years hands-on science center Port Discover shutting down due to lack of operating funds.  Local news media reported that while the center got lots of grants they weren’t allowed to use them for operating costs, however, they could have conducted fundraising to pay for operating costs, but for some reason most of the officials running Port Discover found plenty of excuses not to engage in fundraising (sounds like it was intentionally run into the ground).   After 70 years Chadbourn Middle School (note the evil British empire way a referring to a Junior High School) was suddenly shutdown (three weeks notice) due to what I call DSS (the school was designed for 7-hundred kids, but actual enrollment was only about 1-hundred).

Hundreds of teachers are flunking math exams

Pole-dancing teacher suspended after video leaked

student punished for calling teacher ‘ma’am’

Parents want schools to keep spanking their kids.

School districts accuse state leaders of withholding $730-million in taxpayer funding!

NORTH DAKOTA: Police Demand Assault Rifles for School Cops!

North Dakota schools ranked number one in the nation for salad bars!

Teacher Pleads Guilty to 6 Sex-Crimes

School administrator denied a teaching license

OHIO: Taxpayers forced to spend ‘millions’ on ‘improved’ school cop training

Task force recommends closing 5 schools in Columbus as well as “vacate numerous administrative and support properties” (due to what I call DSS)

teacher charged over relationship with student 

Elementary teacher among 12 arrested in online child sex sting

OKLAHOMA: Request of more than 900 emergency teacher certifications approved

shortage of teachers despite pay raise

teacher arrested on child pornography charges

facebook threats against transgender student shutdown school

school to fine students for tardiness, missing class

OREGON:  teacher, union president banned from teaching 

2nd teacher loses license for sexual misconduct

School bomb shelters for mass shootings

National Study Finds Oregon A Big tax Spender On Teacher Benefits

taxpayers forced to give schools additional $2.6-million USD, for ‘safety’

$22 billion pension hole: How did we get here?

One in ten Portland Airbnb hosts are teachers

PENNSYLVANIA:  Back to school training for public school teachers now focuses on Barricades, active shooters and hiding places.

Mold, excessive heat plague schools

school drops archbishop’s name amid sex abuse report fallout

100-plus new teachers hired

How much do Pennsylvania educators get paid? 

PUERTO RICO: High Court Clears Way for Vouchers, Charter Schools

SOUTH CAROLINA:  God’s own Bob Jones University laid off 50 christians after discovering it was short more than $4-million USD, the funding loss is blamed on scholarships for an increasing number of poor christian students, and skyrocketing health insurance costs caused by ObamaCare-ACA.

teacher mass exodus?

For proof of what the teacher’s think is important for your child’s edumacation,  Schools Let Students Out Early to see Beyoncé !

Mercury contamination discovered in 4 Beaufort County schools

SOUTH DAKOTA: Janitor leaves loaded gun at school

more school districts are arming employees

School Bus Driver Shortage

Leftist liberal nanny state news media considers “unsupervised” kids after school to be a danger, even if they’re at home, wants taxpayers to be raped of more money to create more prison state after school programs!

RHODE ISLAND: Math, science teachers in short supply

may offer jobs to teachers certified out of state

Guns banned from schools (except for police-state cops)

School district forced by federal government to increase taxpayer funding of English language classes for migrant students (the fastest growing segment of public school students)

TENNESSEE: Lowest performing teachers are in Maury County Public Schools

School District officials blame teachers for a failure to report teacher misconduct cases

 Veteran Metro Teacher Arrested For Meth

In one district at least ten classes have no teachers

In violation of 1st Amendment (separation of church and state) ‘In God We Trust’ motto now required to be displayed in all taxpayer funded schools

TEXAS: teacher accused of improper relationship with student

teachers sue state education boss for being anti-public school

State wants taxpayers to somehow cough-up additional $3.3-billion USD for special education students

teacher who though he had great health insurance stuck with $108951 medical bill

UTAH:  28 people injured after school bus crashes

University of Utah instructor punished after shaming gun carriers

teacher convicted of sex abuse now arrested for illegal drugs

Davis School District sued over sex crimes

student accused of bringing bomb to school pleads not guilty

man threatens school using 3D printed gun

VERMONT: school hit with MS-13 graffiti

43 investigations of teachers, 26 disciplinary actions, state school officials didn’t want you to know about!

One school official explains problem teachers by saying ‘Firing people is really hard.’

high schools add competitive bass fishing to curriculum

Vermont meat company prints commentary on failed education system on packaging

VIRGINIA: State attorney general blocks schools from arming teachers

‘We are already at bare bones’: Why teachers are leaving

Teacher Found Guilty on 4 Counts of Molesting Student

Music Teacher, Church Worker Faces Child Sex crime charges

student shaken after brutal attack by bullies

Thousands of students put in restraints or seclusion each year in Virginia  (who’re the real bullies?)

WASHINGTON: School District Shortens Week to 4 Days

WASHINGTON DC:  Man arrested over alleged threats to shoot school crossing guard

Hundreds of DCPS teachers don’t have proper certification

few DC students are passing national standardized test

WEST VIRGINIA:  Mold Found in 25 Rooms of High School

Teacher Charged With Sexual Abuse

WISCONSIN:  Privately funded Beloit College eliminating at least 30 jobs and slashing pay for employees making more than $45-thousand per year, due to the budget being reduced by about $5-million USD (due to DSS).

Suicide rates rise when school starts

school district wants to punish students for having cellphones

WYOMING: School district with less than 13-thousand students spends $9.6-million in taxes on employee’s food, travel, entertainment, even charity, but not on education!

ACT scores drop for second-straight year

DUMBING DOWN THE U.S.A., JULY 2018: SCHOOL CRIMES SKYROCKETING!

Idaho, Opinion

Idaho’s Child Soldiers? Blame ‘christian’ society, blame the parents!

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“Our military leaders bring state and local officials, school administrators, and teachers up to visit the academy and cadets to demonstrate the good return on investment that is happening up here. When they see firsthand the hundreds of lives this program positively effects each year, the program sells itself.”-Collier Lipple, executive officer to the adjutant general of Idaho, and notice the salesman lingo he uses to promote the covert child soldier program

In the Christian dominated (67% according to Pew Research Center, but predominantly ‘Mormon’ LDS by 19%, then Catholic by 10%, all other ‘christian’ denominations come in at less than 6% each) U.S. state of Idaho children are undergoing military training, at taxpayer expense.

It’s called the Idaho Youth ChalleNGe Academy.  The NG in ChalleNGe is capitalized because the U.S. Department of Defense funded program is run by the state militia (National Guard).  It’s just one of 40 similar Department of Defense ‘child soldier’ programs operated across the United States.

By September 2018, Idaho Youth ChalleNGe Academy got its largest number of ‘cadet’ enrollments for a single 22 weeks-long program; 135!

This is concerning, not because it looks like child soldier training, but because Idaho Youth ChalleNGe Academy is for youth considered ‘at risk’ of becoming ‘failures’ (according to the standards of the ‘christian’ dominated state government), and the National Guard reported that the current enrollment of 135 teenagers is the largest ever since the program started, that implies the number of at risk youth is only going up in Idaho.

According to press releases, the goal of 1-thousand Idaho teenagers graduating from the Idaho Youth ChalleNGe Academy is about to be met.  Most of them have come from the Treasure Valley (Boise metro) area of Idaho.

I’m not against military training for youth, I couldn’t wait to join the military, always obsessed with armored vehicles since before kindergarten, so I joined when I was 17 back when you didn’t need to be a high school graduate.  It wasn’t until about 1984-85 that Congress required military enlistees to be high school graduates.

Ideally military training for youth should be voluntary, for those who know it’s the career path for them, it should be a last resort for kids considered ‘failures’.  Back during the undeclared Cold War there were lots of people who were forced to join the U.S. military as an alternative to a prison sentence for a crime they committed.  Some of those guys did well, even said it saved their lives, but there were those that were so criminal minded (some to the point of rape and murder) they ended up in Fort Leavenworth (military prison).

Idaho Youth ChalleNGe Academy was started in January 2014, ordered by gov’na C.L. ‘Butch’ Otter to push through 1-thousand ‘failures’ by December 2018.  But who should be blamed for these child failures? Idaho Air National Guard Master Sergeant, Becky Vanshur, wrote about the program saying at one point “… they learn to adjust to the physical, mental, and social discipline…..  …emphasizes self-discipline, self-esteem, education, and the development of healthy lifestyles.”  Gee, isn’t that what they’re supposed to be learning from their church, schools and parents?

I know ‘christian’ parents here in eastern Idaho that couldn’t handle their own children, they even resorted to calling the police to have them ‘detained’ in the county jail for failing to obey them (Juvenile Incorrigibility).  And it’s christian (especially Mormon) families that seem to have the most problems with their children, I know people that work in the juvi detention for Bannock County who’ve told me (no names given because law enforcement employees could lose their jobs for talking publicly about anything they see, or hear, on the job) the overwhelming majority of kids detained come from Mormon families (the overwhelming majority of eastern Idaho law enforcers are Mormons, so they should know).

see related: In Mormon dominated School District 25 (aka Chubbuck/Pocatello) students experiencing skyrocketing disciplinary problems, “More children were expelled… …and even elementary students got in trouble more often for threats, drug possession and sexual offenses.”

IDAHO: MOUNTAIN HOME AFB UPDATE, F-15E WALK-AROUND, MICRON BUS

Idaho, U.S.

School crimes skyrocketing!: Dumbing Down the U.S.A., July 2018

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”-George Orwell (aka Eric Arthur Blair)

 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.

“Sesame Street is taking its beloved, critically acclaimed brand of educational television into the highly profitable world of classroom curriculum — a move that experts say could open the door for other companies to move into the sensitive learning space with possible influence on children.”-Associated Press

Nature-Genetics: Scientific study of 1.1-million people proves your DNA affects your ability to stay in school!

The Washington Post: Millions of educated, experienced workers have been tossed aside

Incomplete (Tip-o-the-Iceberg) list of publicly announced education related layoffs, shutdowns and crimes, July 2018:

ALABAMA: At least 46 Alabama students disciplined for making threats since Parkland

Alabama labels 75 schools ‘failing’ 

Proof it’s still about the ‘jocks’ and not education as University of Alabama opens $15M dining hall for athletes

Paranoid City of Dothan wants to hire 19 more school police officers

school police officer facing three charges of sex crimes

State health and education departments make immunization records easier to get

You know things are bad when a school supply give away is called Christmas in July

ALASKA: Rural students need support

Federal taxpayers fund Refugee/immigrant Students Backpacking program

vandalism of Alpenglow Elementary

ARIZONA: The Art Institutes of Phoenix shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.

Why Arizona Is Building Tiny Homes for School Teachers

California students flocking to universities in Arizona

specialty license plates garner $1.45M for education

Former Scottsdale school district CFO under indictment breaks silence

ARKANSAS: Panel Calls For Every School To Have An Armed Presence

Mental Health Counseling for Students Must be Priority

Taxpayers raped of $13.6-million USD for school-to-work program

Taxpayers spend $540-thousand to help one school district buy building for use as health clinic.

CALIFORNIA: In San Diego, after 53 years Adams Avenue Bookstore shutdown, the owners said it made more sense to sell the building than to continue selling books.  The Art Institutes of San Bernardino, San Francisco, Sacramento, Santa Ana shutting down, more than 5-hundred jobs gone by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition!   Privately run Argosy University campuses in Alameda, Ontario and San Diego shutting down, about 150 jobs gone by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition!

Celerity charter network closes a school

Auditors call for criminal investigation of Montebello school system

How one California county is criminalizing bad grades

Los Angeles school board member pleads guilty to conspiracy and resigns

Lawsuit over state’s literacy education can proceed

In high gang violence areas police “…found that school buses were dropping off students from different gangs at the same time.” 

Judge Considers Injunction Against Anti-Islamophobia Program In San Diego Schools

COLORADO:  The Art Institutes of Denver shutting down, 160 jobs gone by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition! Privately run Argosy University in Denver shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.  Kinder Haus Learning Center shutdown, Mesa County Public Health says the shutdown aggravates the local child care crisis as Kinder Haus was the largest provider in the county.

19 students hospitalized after school bus crash

Colorado Springs School District 11 wants to sell a parcel of vacant land that was slated for a new school

Taxpayers shell out $20-million USD for new District 49 school

You know things are bad when a taxpayer funded school supply give away is called Christmas in August

CONNECTICUT: New Haven Public Schools eliminating 37 teacher, librarian, and counselor jobs due to an audit that showed there weren’t enough students to justify the positions.

Teacher, Supervisors Arrested After Alleged Abuse

Bond raised for special ed teacher charged with sexually abusing students

Police Probe Alleged Criminal Conduct At School Events

DELAWARE:  claims suggest DOE Secretary lied during audit 

FLORIDA: The Art Institutes of Fort Lauderdale shutting down, 148 jobs gone by Xmas, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition! Privately run Argosy University in Sarasota shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.

Florida Increases Student Surveillance

At least 1040 teachers out of jobs after failing state test

Charter school amendment triggers School Board dispute

‘No homework’ policy gets bad grade

Manatee County principal under criminal investigation

Four-star university freshman footballer charged with two felonies

First class of armed school cops sworn in Polk County

GEORGIA: School District with less than 3-hundred students gets taxpayer funding to make upgrades to offer “anything that a bigger school would offer.”

New this year, sexual abuse education

Gwinnett Schools in sexual assault lawsuit

assistant principal, teacher arrested for alleged sex crime

teacher sentenced to 2 years in prison for firing gun in class

High-level Georgia Tech administrators out after internal audit

Student says ‘My Rifle Makes Me An Athlete, Not A Criminal‘

GUAM: Trial set in teacher’s sexual misconduct case

school supplies still needed

HAWAII: New law allows schools to sell products

State Revokes Charter Of Big Island School

School DESTROYED by Kilauea Volcano 

Kamehameha Schools and plaintiffs announce settlement

IDAHO: State education superintendent amended campaign reports after paying herself $2400

Taxpayers forced to pay $375-thousand USD per year to hire 15 unarmed security guards for Twin Falls School District

Xavier Charter School voted unanimously to allow a school employee to carry a concealed firearm on campus.

Taxpayers forced to give Wendell High students new laptops

Idaho is last in pre-K participation

IDAHO TEACHER SALARIES RANK LOWEST IN NATION

College of Southern Idaho claims increase in revenues, no ‘external’ debt!

In Mormon dominated School District 25 (aka Chubbuck/Pocatello) students experiencing skyrocketing disciplinary problems, “More children were expelled… …and even elementary students got in trouble more often for threats, drug possession and sexual offenses.” 

ILLINOIS: The Art Institutes of Chicago and Schaumburg shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition! Privately run Argosy University in Schaumburg shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.  Rush University Medical Center outsourcing 110 jobs! 

After years of  mass layoffs schools continue to face teacher shortage (really?)

School, trainer sued over alleged sex crimes

83 school districts flagged by State Board of Education for high rates of suspension and expulsion for three consecutive years.

How Public (taxpayer funded) Education Ranks In Illinois

Investigation discovers that State Board of Education itself caused spike to taxpayer-funded pension

INDIANA: The Art Institutes of Indianapolis shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.

Gary schools hit the real estate market

teen gang connected to at least 24 violent crimes

State taxpayers to provide handheld metal detector wands to local schools

police arrested teen at school for having e-cigarette

Teacher accused of intentionally making a special restraining chair for autistic student!

Student accused of bringing gun to Griffith High School 

Soon taxpayers will be forced to fund a new public school district  ‘financial monitoring system’, in an attempt to halt the massive numbers of school district financial failures!

IOWA:  University of Iowa furloughed (supposedly temporary layoffs) 33 people and is shutting down seven ‘centers’ and selling off property, due cuts in state taxpayer funding.

The University of Iowa Labor Center is one of the seven centers slated for closure due to budget cuts.

Taxpayers forced to pay an additional $1.13-million USD for Davenport School District’s “emergency” security funding!

Waterloo, Nashua educators’ licenses suspended for drinking at work

Complaint filed against Schools for use of restraints, seclusion

KANSAS: Two workers shot on Kansas elementary school playground

No felony charges against teacher accused of sex crimes

middle school teacher granted probation

sheriff proposes arming teachers

Reward increased for info about the murder of an immigrant Harmon High School wrestler 

Taxpayers funding new mental health program for five school districts

Taxpayers forced to pay $5-million USD for school security

KENTUCKY:  Kentucky State University eliminating 75 jobs (40 vacant positions and 35 filled positions) in an attempt to reduce labor costs by $2.3-million USD, partly blamed on a 6.25% reduction in state taxpayer funding.

Fayette school board approves tax increase for school safety

Kentucky schools ranked 20th

State offers settlement in Jefferson County Public Schools takeover case

School district sells three empty buildings at huge loss to taxpayers

LOUISIANA: God’s own Loyola University New Orleans suddenly laid off more than 24 people, and suspended its payments into the employee retirement 403(b) plan.  The christian university is dealing with a deficit of more than $25-million USD blamed, in part, to the sudden and unexpected loss of 2-hundred freshmen students back in 2013 (The Rapture?).

Little change in public school performance from last school year

Director of School for the Deaf replaced as part of state level staff shakeup

New state law allows families paying private school tuition a tax break

private schools could face sanctions if voucher students opt to go elsewhere

Louisiana leads the nation in high school seniors asking for federal tax-dollars to help pay for college

Southern University students will have to pay more

MAINE:  After 141 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) god’s own sexist Maine Girls’ Academy-Saint Elizabeth’s Academy shutdown due to lack of students (The Rapture?).

School ban on cell phones blamed for cell phone addiction?

MARYLAND: Incredibly high graduation rate at DuVal High School now considered a scandal

Maryland schools CEO handed six-figure severance payout

Restraining order remains in place against school board chairman

Asian students ask for a day off on Asian calendar Lunar New Year

new law allows students to bring sunscreen to school

MASSACHUSETTS:  Schools allowed to continue electric shock torture of students!

defunct New England Institute of Art/Brookline Art College accused of lying about employment success of graduates

Charter school funding formula is broken

Fall River schools gets 453-thousand federal taxpayer ‘hurricane relief’ dollars for enrolling 152 students from Puerto Rico!

New law lets juveniles off

MICHIGAN: The Art Institutes of Novi shutting down, 114 jobs gone by Xmas, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition!  Privately run South University in Novi shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.

“Federal education officials say Michigan is the only state in the U.S. that needs intervention after failing to meet federal special education requirements”

Students in Detroit Are Suing the State Because They Weren’t Taught to Read

University of Michigan doctor charged with yet more sex crimes

MINNESOTA: Capella University issued a layoff WARN, 125 jobs gone in August!

boys sue to join girls high school dance teams

Duluth confronts expensive reality of school tech push

District 518 in violation of special education rules

District 518 battle now includes criminal charges

Teen sentenced for threatening Futures School

Lincoln Park Junior High School teacher accused of sex crimes back in court

Austin school district to raise lunch prices, blames federal government

MISSISSIPPI: Gov’na orders takeover of Noxubee schools

Starkville teacher charged with child exploitation

Sex Education Lessons From Mississippi And Nigeria

Convicted Columbus music teacher gets appeal

School principal arrested for DUI 

MISSOURI: Immigrant student from India, attending University of Missouri-Kansas City, murdered 

University of Missouri’s Columbia campus raises a record $147-million in donations!

Lindbergh is the last taxpayer funded school district where parents pay out-of-pocket for kindergarten

STEM bill vetoed because unAmerican corporate America wrote it!

Federal court orders change to local school board elections

Charter school parents deserve a say in lawsuit

Without warning one of the oldest charter schools in Kansas City suddenly shuts down

Brentwood woman stole $8000 from high school PTO

Gunshots during a football scrimmage at Saint Mary’s High School

Missouri is known as a haven for child marriages.

MONTANA: Victim of high school shooting released from hospital, then arrested

Teen denies Bozeman High School bomb threat

teacher who was convicted for assaulting student selected for new teaching job

Former teacher may have probation revoked due to new sex offense charge

teacher charged with sexually assaulting a student

NEBRASKA: State’s top educator says he’s ‘sick’ of racist comments

For a few terrible hours, Nebraska City feared a school shooting

Walthill school failed to provide special education services

Test scores at Schuyler Central don’t make the grade

New Millard policy prohibits texting between teachers and students

Taxpayers funding $75-million USD in renovations for UNL

Taxpayers funded $43.9-million Student Health Center

NEVADA: After forcing utility customers to pay for car charging stations and revealing that most of its revenue actually comes from casinos, Tesla awards a piddly $1.5 Million To Nevada STEM programs.  Other news reports say Tesla will donate $37-million in total, albeit spread over five years.

Clark County School District hired 105 special ed teachers, all of them foreigners!

Feuding teachers’ unions battle over package delivery

Marijuana tax money for schools: Where is it going?

NEW HAMPSHIRE: PSU Teams Up With Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network of N.H. to Address Bullying in Schools  (when they say ‘address’ does that mean they’re sending them a letter in the mail?)

Parents Think Of Leaving due to new Franklin School Budget

criminal probe of school lunch program

School counselor gets 2½ years for teen sex assault

EPA Money To Address Asbestos In Schools

Accreditation’s Insidious Impact On Higher Education

NEW JERSEY: Why are so many high school students leaving New Jersey?

Too many school boards wasting too much money

Ewing school teacher gets fired amid child sex crimes

ACLU sues 12 school districts for being anti-illegal immigrant

Another Catholic school announces closure

NEW MEXICO: State loses education lawsuit over Constitutional Rights

UNM No. 1 in stolen autos

Youth gangs on rise in Santa Fe

Man who pled guilty to felony appointed to Luna college board

New Mexico Nursing Education Consortium secures only a fraction of what’s needed for yearly budget

Brain drain hurts New Mexico

NEW YORK: The ‘future leaders’ of America prove they are prejudice when New York University students express disdain for the Supreme Court nominee, days before the President made the nomination!  One prejudiced and politically out-o-touch student even said the “…the new nominee is like racist, and he’s starting a new wave of something very negative…”  God’s own Niagara Catholic Junior/Senior High School shutdown without warning, due to a “significant” reduction in church funding and students (The Rapture?).  Conduent Education Services halting ops in Utica, at least 129 jobs affected by Halloween!

Trooper Is Killed Answering Call to Home of School Principal

Mental health education now required 

Special ed teacher convicted of sex crimes, now pleads guilty to welfare fraud

Does Admissions Exam for Elite High Schools Measure Up? No One Knows

Speed Cameras shutoff in NYC School Zones

Taxpayer funded public schools to educate students about Sikhism

NORTH CAROLINA: The Art Institutes Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition! Privately run South University in High Point shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.

How does North Carolina rank for education?

Teachers view student behavior differently based on race

The Rise Of Charter Schools 

School board makes gutsy decision not to give taxpayer money to its own state government lobby group!

NORTH DAKOTA: For the first time ever, the state Department of Public Instruction asked Native Americans about their education desires!!!

Junior High teacher arrested and accused of enticing boys to have sex with her

Teacher facing drug charges loses license

Minot Teachers at fault 

Number of students who can’t speak English increasing

Investigation discovers that State College of Science’s workforce TrainND computer system is a technical failure resulting in “improprieties, or incorrect reporting”!

North Dakota State University prepping to lose 3-hundred students this school year!

“North Dakota State University has clearly demonstrated negligence which led to dozens of animal deaths, I must insist that you take the most severe action allowable under the Animal Welfare Act and immediately begin the process of issuing the maximum fine allowable…..$10,000 per infraction/ per animal”

Despite oil revenues, the state university system faces lowest taxpayer budget in a decade!

OHIO: Wright State University eliminating 26 jobs in accordance with its new budget.  Privately run South University in Cleveland shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.

Investigation Reveals Thousands Of Ohio K-3 Students Suspended Each Year!!!

U.S. DoE leader’s $40 million yacht vandalized in Ohio

taxpayers paid $7.7 million to renovate charter-school 

ELECTRONIC CLASSROOM OF TOMORROW unsure of status of 2,300 students

Thousands Of Ohio Seniors Unsure of Graduation Status

Uncertainty and confusion for school districts promised funding windfall from gas pipeline 

Summit Academy Secondary School violations

Open Enrollment actually covert Segregation?

More Than 100 Former Ohio State Students Allege Sexual Misconduct

Ohio State football wide receiver coach fired amid allegations of domestic violence

Ohio State University gets record $600M in donations 

OKLAHOMA:  University of Oklahoma eliminating one third of executive jobs in an attempt to keep student tuition from being increased.

Lottery proceeds for education top $63 million thanks to new law

Declining state taxpayer funding caused by declining student enrollment, yet local school districts say they need more money despite fewer students

Taxpayers forced to pay Tulsa Public Schools administrators who were not certified and did not have employment contracts!

Education Board charter school Langston Hughes Academy on probation

pervasive hunger impacting school, workplace

Judge says Bixby High School football players committed rape

Hartshorne schools allow trained teachers to carry firearms

OREGON: The Art Institutes of Portland shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.  It leaves “students scrambling for ways to continue their education.”

Dallas School District ordered by state to provide more special education

teacher arrested in drug case could return to classroom

Leftist liberal school district forces taxpayers to shell-out $25-thousand USD, because the district illegally suspended a student for wearing a Trump t-shirt!

PENNSYLVANIA: Pittsburgh based Education Management (the now former owner of Art Institute) now chapter 7 bankrupt busted and liquidating.  The Art Institutes of Philadelphia shutting down, 171 jobs gone by the end of August, the new corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition!

Chief executive officer of the Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School spending up to 20 months in federal prison, for his part in an $8-million USD taxpayer scam.

Property tax rates going up because of schools, “It’s getting tougher each month to pay that” says a retired homeowner on a fixed income who just got hit with a 2.4% increase in property tax.

Lancaster County school districts raise property taxes as much as 6.3 percent!

Taxpayers forced to spend $2-million to license more people as teachers

How Perverse Incentives Leave Struggling School Districts Behind

Pennsylvania has among the biggest student loan debt

Investigation says Hazleton Area School District has a bullying problem

Emmaus High School forces students to watch LGBT videos, yet bans parents

Influx of Puerto Rican families challenges school district

Massive Fire Rips Through Delaware County Catholic School

Holy-er than thou christian school principal says city kids need to be taught “to be quiet, clean and orderly.”!

SOUTH CAROLINA: The Art Institutes Charleston shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition, “Students left dangling“.

Cost of replacing a principal: $24000

Education still an obstacle

Tax credits for college tuition just got supersized

Charleston County Schools forced taxpayers to give $64000 to marketing company

school district abolished snow days

RHODE ISLAND: More high schoolers consider suicide

$25-million USD taxpayer funded Providence Public Library redeux will somehow create ‘lifetime education’

North Providence school chief accused of using taxpayer funded credit card for personal purchases

Latinos face hurdles in accessing adult ed classes

Teachers overwhelmed by students who can’t speak English

TENNESSEE: The Art Institutes of Nashville shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition. Privately run Argosy University in Nashville shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.

Metro Schools Director Accused Of ‘Election Interference’

Principal Sex Scandal Emerges 

Systemic problems in special education

City schools below state averages

Lottery claims it will give nearly $422 million to education

School district replaces snow days with eLearning Days

TEXAS: Privately run Argosy University in Dallas shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.

In a Migrant Shelter Classroom

Arrests of students have increased

Number of students accused of making threats triples: “We saw a large number of kids who were being referred to juvenile probation for behaviors like pretending to shoot aliens…” 

Christian mom pleads guilty to trying to hide her high school aged son’s sex crimes, that he committed with elementary students right after going to church!

Administrators to carry guns in east Texas school 

Are college courses for high schoolers worth it? Maybe not

Texas wants to rape taxpayers of nearly $1 billion to help students afford college

UTAH: Privately run Argosy University in Salt Lake City shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.

school counselor, custodian charged with sex crimes

Student accused in backpack bomb case to face adult trial

teachers taking up guns in their classrooms

Nebo School District to eliminate cross-dressing ban

VERMONT: Law School revokes tenure for 75% of faculty

Half of towns will see increased property tax rates, in the name of education

Teachers union claims to have plan to eliminate education property tax

Taxpayers forced to give schools $4-million USD for security

VIRGINIA: Mental health classes now required

The model state for school safety still has challenges

Lee County to arm school employees

teacher in child porn case had upskirt images of students

man facing child sex crimes used to be a teacher

Fairfax school system rejects former student’s assault claim

Investigators say elementary school teachers helped students cheat on state exams

WASHINGTON: The Art Institutes in Rosslyn shutting down, 118 jobs gone!

teaching assistant charged with raping child at Seattle school kept job

school board member accused of hitting bicyclist while driving

Students caught in middle of new college credit law confusion

Ocosta School District turning their new school into a Cascadia Event tsunami evacuation structure, as Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe gets 2.2-million taxpayer dollars to create vertical evacuation shelter

Why there aren’t any Native American charter schools

WASHINGTON DC: Education Dept. Illegally Curbed Workers’ Union Protections

Families accused of residency fraud re-enroll at Duke Ellington School

DC schools among nation’s worst

WEST VIRGINIA: Fayette County Board of Education employee accused of theft

“law enforcement teacher at Putnam County’s Career and Technical Center accused of sexual abuse of a student is among 49 people indicted by a Putnam County grand jury” 

school therapist accused of taking pics of naked students pleads guilty

WISCONSIN: school janitor faces child porn charges

State taxpayers forced to give $3.5-million USD for school security

Spanish immersion early childhood center planned in Shorewood

WYOMING: Riverton High School wrestlers face criminal charges for allegedly homo-sexually raping eight younger students on a school bus!

1 in 4 University of Wyoming students experience sexual assault

Reporting On Migrant Education 

Natrona County selling off Grant Elementary school

Dumbing Down U.S.A., June 2018:“LOCKDOWN, LOCKDOWN”

International

Fluoride Wars: You can’t escape it, everybody is a target!

11SEP2018 (00:11 UTC-07 Tango 06) 20 Sharivar 1397/30 Dhu l-Hijja 1439/02 Xin-You (2nd month) 4716

The following are links to the latest articles covering the never ending fluoride wars:

Tapping into Minnesota’s fluoride rules

A Novel Method For Fluoride Detection

Hayward City drops fluoridation on cost concerns

Bisbee City’s decision to remove fluoride from water criticized

Colorado makes it legal for dental hygienists to apply silver diamine fluoride

Colorado Brown Stain and Fluoridation

Many New Jersey Residents Skeptical About Benefits Of Fluoridation

Taxpayer funded Upgrade to system used to inject fluoride into Dothan City’s water 

Fluoride in Darlington water supply inquiry

Fluoridation meeting draws crowd in Potsdam

Fluoride to return to city water supply

India’s excess fluoride in groundwater

Global Food Crisis as Leaf burn caused by hydrogen fluoride

120 million Indians at risk of fluorosis, says Swiss study

Bottled water too has high fluoride level

Fluoride 4 times the limit in Malwa water

Canal water for 340 villages affected by fluoride

Cutting down on fluoride can help tackle anaemia

New Studies Link Fluoride to Adverse Health Effects (lower IQ, ADHD, thyroid dysfunction and depression)

Infant And Fetal Pathologist Warns Against Fluoride

University of Geneva showed that the use of CURODONT is superior to that of fluoride 

And for more proof it’s about the money;  Hydrogen Fluoride-Pyridine Sales  

Manganous Fluoride Market Size

Fluoride Rubber Market Overview

Global Polyvinyl Fluoride Market Summary

This report is a value analysis of the inorganic fluoride industry in China

Ammonium Hydrogen Fluoride Market Demand

Fluoride Varnish Market

Global Anhydrous Hydrogen Fluoride Market

New Report On Sodium Fluoride Market 

For hundreds of years now, several types of flouride are used to make military grade weapons, like armor penetrating sabot rounds: “The fluxing mixture….is prepared by mixing together fluoride of aluminum, fluoride of sodium, and anhydrous zinc chloride.”-Practical Engineer and Engineers’ Gazette, Volume 17 #578, published on 25MAR1898

Today, several types of Fluoride are used in the modern weapons industry, just as several types of fluoride are used in your precious hi-tech electronic gadgets.  As you can see from the market surveys above, fluorides are in almost everything we use/consume (and I didn’t even list all the various fluoride market surveys that came out in the past month)!

Kansas City Star, 27DEC2017: Fluoride is being added to more everyday products.

FLUORIDE WARS: PETRIFIES YOUR GLANDS, INTERFERES WITH SLEEP, DUMBS DOWN YOUR BABY?

Idaho, U.S.

“Lockdown, lockdown”: Dumbing Down the U.S.A., June 2018

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”-George Orwell (aka Eric Arthur Blair)

 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 (Tip-o-the-Iceberg) list of publicly announced education related layoffs, shutdowns and crimes, June 2018:

ALASKA: No incumbents seeking reelection to Fairbanks school board

Fairbanks school bus contractor on road to improvement

Students take hunting challenge

ALABAMA: Locker room attack victim calls for firing of Davidson coach

School board approves Baldwin County dress code changes

Teaching offer rescinded for Limestone County superintendent’s daughter

ARIZONA: Organizers of education funding initiative defend taxing Arizona’s wealthiest

Arizona to use VW settlement money for new diesel powered school buses

Arizona Summit Law School on verge of losing American Bar Association accreditation

State education board votes to put over-budget Phoenix school district into receivership

Poverty is so bad that…Tucson-area schools, centers offering free meals… and …Back to School Clothing Drive supports classrooms

School districts release teacher pay info

ARKANSAS: Safety panel backs arming Arkansas school staffers

Rules to accredit Arkansas schools revised

State places school district on probation

Arkansas Teacher Salary Falls Three Notches

statewide teacher shortage

North Little Rock school exec to get $213000 to resign

Earle School District improperly spent about $766,000 on personnel costs using state funds specifically meant for education

Arkansas No. 1 in percentage of students at risk

CALIFORNIA: U.S. Education Department opens investigation into USC after gynecologist scandal

Acclaimed UC Irvine geneticist resigns due to sexual harassment

Three UC campuses did not consistently discipline faculty accused of sexual misconduct, state auditor finds

LA Unified’s spending

High opt-out rates on state exam continue to frustrate school district

California Will Be Fourth State to Sue Over Student Loans

COLORADO: After 47 years god’s own alternative school La Academia shutting down in Denver due to The Rapture, although they’re actually blaming it on competition from other schools.

Colorado Springs charter school on brink of closing stymied by D-11

Colorado approves $447 million in school construction

Colorado Dept. of Education worker sentenced to 12 years for ‘upskirt’ photos, videos

Board of Education rejects proposal to have students discuss gun benefits

Four Colorado Springs-area school projects benefit from marijuana-funded grants

CONNECTICUT: New Haven Public Schools issued 1-thousand-1-hundred layoff notices, due to a sudden budget reduction of $5-million USD as a result of state taxpayer funding cuts!  Washington based online used book seller Thrift Books Global issued a shutdown WARN for its Windsor Locks location, 54 jobs gone by July.

School safety bill vetoed by the governor

Region 10 School District to Arm Security Guards 

Student arrested for East Hartford High School social media threat

Coach Resigned, 2 Teachers on Leave Amid Investigation

Torrington Superintendent Resigns Amid Allegations of Neglect

Nearly $1 million was stolen from Connecticut Higher Education Trust

Ansonia’s mayor blames superintendent, board for school budget crisis

Ansonia and Derby Consider Merging School Districts

Windsor Lock revising grading system after backlash

Plainfield Mom Furious After Son Gets ‘ADD Award’

School Districts Struggle To Comply With New Student Data Privacy Law

DELAWARE: Delaware Backs Down on Letting Students Self-Identify Race, Gender

Sussex Tech School Board facing calls to resign 

Teacher Faces Sentencing on Child Sex Charge

FLORIDA:  new home for Troops to Teachers program 

Duval schools continue to lag in state reading, math

Florida Education Association employee arrested for shoplifting

GEORGIA: DeKalb schools sue to block Atlanta annexation

Georgia universities seek more rural students

Dying teacher’s request: Backpacks filled with school supplies

Kroger to give school supplies to GA teachers

Teacher pension funding behind cost increase for local taxpayers 

State taxpayer funding for Georgia teachers’ pension should begin to ease

State to hire construction managers for 4 taxpayer funded university projects that will cost at least $104-million

Polk School District created a dedicated taxpayer funded school Police Department, they’ve already got new taxpayer funded cars and locks on school doors 

Richmond County schools are failing, state taxpayer funded Department of Education taking over

Ever hear of the taxpayer funded Stop the Bleed program? Neither have the schools it’s supposed to support!

GUAM: Island paradise is short 300 teachers!

10 simple steps to become a University of Guam student

U.S. taxpayers (via U.S. Department of the Interior) giving Guam $2.5-million USD in fiscal year 2018 for various programs including scholarships 

Election complaint names GDOE superintendent

HAWAII: 84% of teachers choosing to leave Hawaii

Hawaii Will Pay $10.25 Million To Settle Special Education Lawsuit

Hawaii Schools fail To Address Bullying

Hawaii Farm to School program gets $100000 in federal tax funding

IDAHO: The state Board of Education approved an alcohol permit for home games at University of Idaho.

Idaho is tied with North Dakota for last place in the nation in early childhood education participation.

Taxpayers funding the largest Summer school for immigrants yet (200 students) in Minidoka County

Test results show Idaho student SAT scores dropped

Idaho Latinos least likely to have college degrees

For some reason ‘holocaust’ education is being forced upon grade school students.

Moscow School District ramps up vaccination rates.

District 93’s Special Education Program Struggles to Keep Up

Idaho Teacher Accused of Feeding live Puppy to Turtle Charged With Animal Cruelty 

Idaho school office dig fails to find body of missing woman

U.S. News & World Report: Idaho has the highest rate per capita of child marriage in the United States.

ILLINOIS: Western Illinois University suddenly laid off 24 people with only two days notice, and 62 vacant positions will not be filled, due to crashing enrollments (DSS).  God powerless to stop ‘his’ DePaul University from suddenly eliminating 62 jobs due to The Rapture, I mean DSS.  In 2012 the university had more than 16-thousand undergraduates, by 2017 undergraduates dropped to 14,816.  The Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago issued a shutdown WARN, 155 jobs gone by Xmas!

Six-Figure Illinois Educators Cost Taxpayers $3.7 Billion

Illinois Teacher Shortage?

Teachers take gun class at Farmer City

‘No way in hell’: School board member accused of using racism to ban books 

Illinois Among Biggest Spenders For Higher Education

School leaders worry about cost of mandated pay raises for teachers

INDIANA: Carmel Clay Schools spending taxpayer money on rebuilding/relocating two elementary schools despite their own 2016 survey results showing enrollments declining by 4-hundred by 2020 and by 9-hundred by 2026!    The global dairy collapse hitting even Andrews University, which decided to shutdown its 111 years old dairy school in 2019.  The shutdown will not only affect students and employees, but 1-thousand-2-hundred cows: “In the last two to three years, we have lost between $750,000 and $900,000 a year!”-Stephen Payne, VP of integrated marketing & communication

More Indiana children living in poverty but state rates well in education

Teacher pay in Indiana continues its downward slide

teacher resigns over transgender name policy

middle school math teacher shortage

Court rules Police officers working in Indiana schools must advise students of their Rights!

IOWA: Educational assessment company Pearson-ACT shutting down its Iowa City location, which will result in more than 2-hundred jobs lost by Xmas!  Company execs blame it on increasing numbers of people deciding not to go on to college/university.  God’s own Cedar Valley Catholic Schools warning it might have to shutdown three elementary schools due to deterioration of the buildings and The Rapture, I mean crashing enrollments. Alternative plans are being discussed.

Nine of every 10 public school districts in Iowa have buildings exposed to pesticides, and school officials don’t even know it!

Mystery complaint against multiple school boards over special education: “We’re not even really sure what it is about.”-Becky Wichers, Muscatine School Board

KANSAS:  Atchison school may close amid debts

Kansas Supreme Court: School funding is inadequate

Kansas Supreme Court upholds repeal of teacher tenure rights

Schools hold job fair as vacancies grow

Regents approve tuition and fee increases for state universities

Inside Wichita State’s latest tuition increase

Kansas teacher gets probation in student sex case

Kansas school official accused in sex messages case

KENTUCKY: Kentucky’s new school vaccination laws

State board of education OKs Bible literacy standards

High school student fools Trump fans

College and University admission standards changed

school districts get creative as teacher candidate pool dwindles

Two juveniles arrested for middle school burglary

LOUISIANA:  Tuition-free college? Louisiana teachers will be eligible 

Lack of diversity among teaching staff

15 new Louisiana education laws parents should know about

‘Too many broken promises’

LSU students to see another fee increase to help with pay raises

MAINE: School District to Remove Native American Imagery

Boy Drowned at State Park During school Field Trip

School Bus Driver Took Upskirt Photos of Students

Running Back Held Without Bail in Classmate’s Death

MARYLAND: MS-13 threatens a middle school, warn teachers

Prince George’s high school officials accused of boozing on the job

Transgender teen gets ‘permanent’ access to boys’ locker room

Nearly 1 in 5 Maryland students is chronically absent.

School Bus Aide Accused of Choking 7-Year-Old Boy

More than 32000 tickets issued to drivers for illegally passing stopped school buses 

MASSACHUSETTS: By the end of the month Dighton-Rehoboth Regional School District notified 84 people they were being rendered jobless, school officials are hoping cash strapped voters will approve additional tax spending in July.

“Lockdown, lockdown”: kindergarten uses Police State nursery rhyme to teach shooting response

High School Apologizes After Nazi Quote Is Printed

Hispanic population rapidly increases

Asbestos found at Healy School

MICHIGAN: God powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Saint Mary School in Mount Morris due to The Rapture, I mean declining enrollment, declining church attendance, rising costs and more families seeking tuition assistance.  Dream Center Education Holdings issued a shutdown WARN for its The Art Institute of Michigan, 114 jobs gone in August!

University of Michigan to raise in-state tuition by 2.9 percent

MSU expands sexual misconduct workgroup

teen sentenced in mass school shooting plot

Parents pull elementary students from school because of hit list

U.S. weighs in against University of Michigan bullying policy

MSU’s bond debt to jump because of Nassar case

Detroit-area high school raises nearly $150k to help homeless

MINNESOTA: Minnesota high school grad rate ranks 35th in U.S.

Saint Paul schools fail to meet state law on teaching the arts

1700 reading, math tutors sought for Minnesota schools

 school district tussle over girl’s need for special ed

Minnesota’s largest school district begins work on its biggest construction project ever ($249-million taxpayer dollars)

MISSISSIPPI: 2-thousand vacant education jobs

lottery announced for special needs scholarship program

teacher facing allegations of ‘improper conduct’ with student

32 arrested in online sex crimes against kids

executive order to establish School Safety Task Force

MISSOURI: University of Missouri suddenly laid off 30 people due to a shortfall of $45-million USD, a total of 185 jobs will be killed, one local news media source called the situation “chaos”!  Lindenwood University revealed that it had laid off 17 people in May.  God’s own Fontbonne University suddenly laid off 27 of its employees, due to The Rapture, I mean enrollment is down to just 1,375 students.

KCU begins construction of ‘future-proof’ $33M simulation center

Medical student accuses UMKC of racketeering, fraud

Missouri Southern faces a $1.1 million fine for tuition hike

coach’s lawsuit alleges racial discrimination

Eight northeast schools fail bus inspections

School shooting training at O’Fallon

New suicide policy

MONTANA: Missoula school cop accidentally fired gun

Gun found at Sentinel High School, 2 boys shot

Helena teacher says school cop shooter drill caused hearing loss

Billings teacher terminated following misconduct investigation

schools begin carrying drug to reverse overdose

Roosevelt Elementary School closed 

 school food truck serves free meals all summer long

NEBRASKA:  State will intervene at Schuyler Central High School 

Nebraska to implement ‘good behavior game‘

Taxpayers to spend $420000 on consultants for troubled schools

Property taxes remain high due to school funding

School bus crashes into utility substation

State Board of Education revokes license of substitute teacher

NEVADA: CCSD cuts electives due to lack of funding

CCSD budget reductions result in loss of 563 jobs!

Controversy erupts because of 2005 sex offender amendment

Solar panels help local school buy laptops

Questions raised about marijuana revenues for education

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Students Caught Sending Nude Pics

state’s role in bullying cases limited by current law

student behavioral issues escalating

$10M more approved to ‘harden’ NH schools

NEW JERSEY: School Didn’t Do Enough to Stop Her Suicide

school superintendent caught crapping in public, multiple times!

School District Mandates Clear Backpacks

Upper Freehold School District put on lockdown

Parents infuriated after short notice of christian school closing, especially after they paid more in tuition to keep it open

NEW MEXICO: APS submits plan for failing Hawthorne school

Parents fail to attend school choice expo for Hawthorne

La Resolana Leadership Academy’s charter is not renewed

SFPS finds state taxpayer funding for school security not worth it

Albuquerque Public Schools increases pay for employees

Taxpayers fund border-crossing students

teacher evaluations flawed

superintendent accused of faking credentials 

New Mexico ranks last in child well-being

NEW YORK: Van Trans-Attendant lost its taxpayer funded contract with state Department of Education, 333 jobs lost by September!  Taxpayer funded Cardinal McCloskey Community Services shutting down its Head Start Programs due to losing the federal contract, 202 jobs affected by July! Center for Family Support issued a shutdown WARN for its NYC ops, 80 jobs gone by September.  God’s own Saint John Villa Academy issued a shutdown WARN, 71 jobs gone by the end of August.  Lifeline Center for Child Development issued a shutdown WARN for its Queens-NYC pre-school, 41 jobs gone by the end of August. ‘Global learning company’ Channel One-Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company issued a shutdown WARN, 28 NYC jobs gone by the end of September.

NYC’s ‘shadow school system’ 

NYC Spent $136 Million on temporary Teachers 

What’s Going On With New York’s Elite Public High Schools?

Elite Girls’ Schools Admitting Transgender students

NORTH CAROLINA: After 117 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) King’s College shutting down when the 2018-19 school year is done, administrators say their own studies show that what I call DSS will only get worse.  

40 state education staffers laid off, 21 vacant positions eliminated

Good test scores but too much Bible

 private school voucher millions still lack accountability

teacher among 3 charged with child sex offense

Class size and hunger top two problems for grade students

NORTH DAKOTA: teacher facing 3 new sex assault charges

Fargo teacher accused of bullying will be back in school 

kindergarten teacher appealing life without parole sentence

pilot shortage takes a toll on UND

OHIO: Taxpayer ‘sponsored’ (but independently operated) Phoenix Academy suddenly shutdown its alternative high school campus in Toledo, blaming lack of money.  GC Services warning that it could lose its taxpayer funded U.S. Department of Education contract, 123 jobs gone by August!

Taxpayer funded schools lose more than $24 million tax dollars to the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow charter school 

Summer schools now about feeding hungry children

Hamilton City School District arming school staff in response to complaints about security

State Bureau of Workers’ Compensation giving schools $8-million tax dollars for school security

Deficit-ridden Niles schools back under state watch

Sex abuse inquiry on Ohio State doc now includes high school

OKLAHOMA: University of Oklahoma warning of mass layoffs, claiming it lost $15-million USD to escalating operating costs.

tuition increase at Oklahoma State University

State Supreme Court Voids Challenge To Teacher Pay Tax

Troops To Teachers Program Looking To Ease Oklahoma Teacher Shortage 

‘We are in a teaching crisis in this state’

OREGON: Sate Department of Education creates 3rd Gender Option

School’s out for summer, but free meals for low income students are still on

Marcola teacher files complaint with state alleging ‘racist’ mascot

Taxpayer funded Eugene teachers knelt during national anthem

Students and parents bully bus driver, then they lie about it on social media! 

PENNSYLVANIA: plan to ax school property taxes is misleading 

Most school districts plan tax increases

State overwhelmed with tracking charter school taxpayer funding

All newborns will get a $100 investment scholarship for college

students given bulletproof backpacks for starting high school

Freshman student stabbed at Pennsylvania high school

school districts implementing trauma kits in classrooms

PUERTO RICO:  A quarter of Puerto Rico’s schools are shutting down

Judge blocks closure of nine schools

It seems that many school districts along the east coast of the United States have been taking in hurricane refugee students from Puerto Rico, as a way to shore up their declining student enrollments.  The result is that Puerto Rico is shutting down schools due to lack of students.

RHODE ISLAND:  Legal counsel Attorney for state Dept. of Education not a member of state Bar

teacher absenteeism rate third-highest in nation

High school football coach removed amid suicide
 suicidal thoughts on rise among students
sexual assault at Cranston high-school 
Police calls to Providence schools surged 
SOUTH CAROLINA:  South Carolina’s dire teacher shortage
Auditor says While tuition rises, lawmakers stiffed schools of $2.1 billion worth of lottery revenues
 Breaking up South Carolina’s biggest high school 
3-thousand teachers forced to retire early?
Paranoid high school locks its self down for graduation

SOUTH DAKOTA: South Dakota teachers rank 30th in buying power nationally

educational cooperative business employee charged in a financial misconduct scheme

More than half of South Dakota communities losing population

TENNESSEE:  Meharry Medical College suddenly laid off 55 employees. 

Tennessee law says anybody entering school, including colleges and universities, must be vaccinated

Benefits for Hamilton County Schools retirees delayed

Hamilton County Schools investigating state data leak

Five years later Achievement School District fails to improve

Parents dealing with growing wait lists for Pre-K programs

Metro Schools teacher arrested for meth use

Balmoral Ridgeway Elementary School PTO president charged with theft

Bledsoe County school district accused of racism

two Blount County Schools teachers lose their license to teach

TEXAS: Huntsville Memorial eliminating its Joe G. Davis School of Vocational Nursing due to increasing competition from area nursing schools.

Enforcement of school vaccinations causes shot shortage in Ector County

Mom caught son in bed with junior high school counselor

Student kills self at McKinney North High School 

The Fall of Dallas County Schools

Cypress-Fairbanks school district mandates clear backpacks

2 Teen Boys Wore Dresses To Texas School 

Texas school district can exhume unmarked graves

Pine Tree ISD manages to lower tax rate and give pay raises, all while operating on a deficit!

UTAH: Most Utah schools spent $1000 or less on suicide prevention programs

tug of war for teachers leads to higher salaries 

Two employees at Sierra Bonita Elementary School accused of sex crimes

high schools in Utah do not allow Pacific Islander students to wear leis at graduation

University of Utah Professor appointed chairman of Pakistan’s Higher Education Commission.

VERMONT: Merger madness

$50K theft from Pownal school account

South Burlington High to provide condoms

Vermont Law School laying off Tenured Faculty

VIRGINIA: School drops Confederate name in favor of Barack Obama

School being sued for not protecting girl from known sex bully

Manassas schools ‘on lockdown’

Richmond schools out of toilet paper?

teacher accused of being drunk at school

WASHINGTON: free city bus passes for high-school students

Durham offering $4K signing bonus, $17 an hour to entice new school bus drivers

Principals can’t hire enough special-education teachers

Homeless but not hopeless: Spokane high school students

Spokane school zone speed cameras snare $4 million in fines

superintendent expected to plead guilty in child sex case

Fife school board finds principal sexually harassed teachers

WASHINGTON DC:  DC-Area Schools’ Vaccine Requirements

DC’s public schools go from success story to cautionary tale
About a quarter of DC teachers lack required certification
DC enacts emergency rules
 DC school enrollment fraud
DC school lockdown because a student said the word “shoot”

 

WEST VIRGINIA: Mental health crisis in schools

More than 3,000 students awarded PROMISE Scholarships

Low income school clothing allowance deadline extended

WISCONSIN: School’s Closed. Forever.

Gunshot detection technology

volunteer tutor accused of sex crimes

Madison School District losing $7 million in state tax funding

Oregon School District increasing the number of school breaks in an attempt to stop flu outbreaks

WYOMING: Four schools set to close in Casper and Mills

Riverton High School hazing case

Evanston school district sued over new gun policy

Teton County School District No. 1 slashes employee benefits

Dumbing Down U.S.A., May 2018: “MORALE HAS NEVER BEEN LOWER.”