Pennsylvania Schools Lose 139K Students But Add 21K Administrators — Pennsylvania public schools have lost 139,000 students since 2000 but gained 21,145 more employee, notes Commonwealth Foundation.
This employee growth includes nearly 40 percent more highly paid administrators than 20 years ago.
Schools have not gotten better.
The Foundation also points out that Pennsylvania school districts spent $21,263 per student in 2021–22, ranking 7th in the nation at nearly $5,500 more than the national average.
Chesco United reported, Aug. 24, that an audit of 12 school districts by state Auditor General Tim DeFoor found that all routinely pass big tax hikes despite having budget surpluses in the tens of millions of dollars.
Those running our schools don’t care about themselves not education.
School choice and charter schools are a solution. Chesco United notes that the cost per-pupil at a charter school is about half that of a district one and parents have far more say in the curriculum and hiring.
Pennsylvania Schools Lose 139K Students But Add 21K Administrators
The Well By Briscoe Shows A Generation In Despair — Oliver Anthony’s bitter lamentRich Men North of Richmond was a surprise mega-hit a few weeks back and now another song of American despair is on radar.
Texas-based Briscoe released The Well in June to promote their album West of It Allwhich is coming out Sept. 15.
It’s not what one would call optimistic.
It opens “When the well runs dry and the food runs out and the words you speak are the only things that touch your mouth.”
We, however, are optimistic.
We liked it and think it’s going to be a success.
Oliver Anthony is young and the Briscoe band members are younger. The upside to the garbage being fed this generation by those who wish us to eat bugs and live in coffins is that when you see the problem and start singing about the problem, the problem becomes solvable.
Yes children, the climate crisis is way overblown. You do not have to give up your cars, air-conditioning or gas stoves.
And yes, men and women are different and have different roles.
Believe in God and you’ll believe in the glory of living. Fear will disappear to be replaced by hope, and bitterness will become love.
Bunny Welsh To Discuss Cavalcante Escape — Bunny Welsh, the last competent sheriff of Chester County, Pa., will be guest of Don’t Back Down on WWDB, 2 p.m., tomorrow, Sept. 6.
The show is hosted by Stan Casacio and attorney Andy Teitelman
Ms. Welsh will give her views on how not just multiple murderer/illegal alien Danelo Cavalcante can escape from the county prison, but remain on the lam for six days.
Hopefully, by the time the show airs the scum is caught.
Igor Vidra Bolte, an emotionally disturbed man serving a three-month sentence for assulting a West Chester police officer, escaped from the prison in May.
Bolte was caught after just three hours, though.
It is believe he just walked out in a manner similar ot Cavalcante.
Vivek Schools TMZ Climate Cultists —Vivek Ramaswamy x-posted, Aug. 31, an interview with Harvey Levin and another TMZ host in which he schooled them regarding the non-existent climate crisis.
Ramaswamy pointed out that climate-related deaths have dropped by 98 percent over the last century and that reason for this is abundant energy, the vast majority of which is created by fossil fuels.
What makes the interview terrifying is the zombie-like, unassailable certainty Levin and the other fellow had regarding the belief that man-made energy use is going to kill us all, despite the data, evidence and logic presented by the Republican presidential contender.
He explained that the Maui fire catastrophe was not caused by global warming but happened because a woke government official refused to release desparetly needed water.
He said forest fires are now more severe because the woke running things have abandoned management practices that worked well for decades.
How much CO2 is released by a massive forest fire anyway?
Ramaswamy said those pushing climate crisis agenda are not sincere and their prime goal is to weaken the United States especially to the benefit of China which laughs at the issue.
He asked why the climate crisis crowd is the biggest opponent of nuclear energy, which a stable, effective and produces zero greenhouse gases.
The three running for president who seem to get this and are trying to make the equation balance are Ramaswamy, Bobby Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump.
If Americans don’t start waking up to this and voting appropriately and scorning the cultists, they are going to find themselves in impoverished misery and only dimly aware as to how they got there.
Here is the interview:
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Having been arrested at anti-government demonstrations, I have nothing but respect — never mind the cause — for those willing to be arrested for a belief.
The would include Terrisa Bukovinac. She is among those seeking the Democratic nomination for president
Ms. Bukovinac is the founder of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU) which she says is a “liberal pro-life group”. She says that The Progressive case against abortion “is inconsistent with the noon-violent instincts of feminism to tie the liberation of women to the elimination of any group of human beings”.
The Christian Post notes Ms. Bukovinac’s group includes pro-life activists who have been convicted of federal charges — and face 11 year sentences — in connection with a 2020 lockdown” of a D.C. abortion clinic.
Ms. Bukovinac was also among those outside the federal prosecutor’s office, last October, protesting the persecution of Mark Houck
She talks about the need to bring back the concept of “ rescue”. Rescue is a PAAU tactic that involves “entering abortion facilities to pass out roses with pregnancy help information attached to abortion-minded patients.”
The loyal Democrats of Swarthmore had never mentioned either to me.
In this Minimise interview, she simply says “I want to change the way that humanity views unborn life.”
In this CRUX interview, she asks the question, as an atheist, “if we only get one life to live and there’s no God to bring about justice in the end , how could abortion be just?”.
She believes we need “a willingness to disrupt the status quo.”
“No social justice movements are won without critical nonviolent direct action,” she says.
When my wife and I worked as State of Pennsylvania drones, one of us usually marched in the Philly Labor Day parade, to show solidarity with our union, the Pennsylvania Social Services Union a.k.a PSSU.
Exactly how did all this Labor Day marching get started?
Matthew Maguire and Peter Mcguire conspired to create Labor Day, and the first Labor Day parade was held in New York City in 1882.
Theses articles, here and here, point to Matthew Maguire not being granted “Father of Labor Day” status due to his strong socialist leanings, including being the Socialist Party candidate for president in 1896.
Grover Cleveland made Labor Day a federal holiday in 1896, hoping to make amends for sending in the military to squash the Pullman Railway strike.
Grover Cleveland did not become the first president to serve three non-consecutive term However, Grover Cleveland remains the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms. That could change next year.
The author proposes that “over the past thirty years, international bureaucracies have played a growing role in making the world a better place for socialism.”
Nowadays, rather than discuss the Pullman strike of 1894, we discuss Labor Day sales and barbecues, and we no longer march. One might say capitalism has won.
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Proverbs 22:6
The Old Has Passed Away — The fulfillment of the law is Christ himself, who does not so much as lead us away from the letter as lift us up in its spirit. For the law’s consummation was this, that the very lawgiver accomplished His work and changed letter into spirit summing everything up in Himself and, though subject to the law living by grace. He subordinated the law, yet harmoniously united grace with it, not confusing the distinctive characteristics of the one with the other but effecing the transition in a way most fitting for God. He changed whatever was burdensome, servile and oppressive to what is light and liberating, so that we should be enslaved no longer under the elemental spirits of the world, as the Apostle says, nor held fast as bondservants under the letter of the law.
Justly, then, do we celebrate this mystery since it signifies for us a double grace. We are led toward the truth, and we are led away from our condition of slavery to the letter of the law.
How can this be? Darkness yields before the coming fo the light, and grace exchanges legalism for freedom. But midway between the tow stands today’s mystery at the frontier where types and symbols give way to reality and the old is replaced by the new.
Therefore let all creation sing and dance and unite to make worthy contribution to the celebration of this day. Let there be one common festival for saints in heaven and men on earth. Let everything, mundane things and those above, join in festive celebration.
Today this created world is raised to the dignity of a holy place for Him who made all things. The creature is newly prepared to be a divine dwelling place for the Creator.
