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After the French Revolution came the "Reign of Terror." Looks like the Left wants to repeat that with the violence and arson they are using.

No, that is what the Democrats did to the Black family. It is what the Teachers union is doing to the Black children. There is no genuine concern for the Black family because Democrats know they destroyed it and created a group of eternal victims trotted out when needed replete with violence and crime. And the claims from the media that racism created the situation when the Democrats and progressives did.

What a very ignorant statement. It shows you have absolutely NO connection to the education requirements of our country. You have no inclination to understand or implement Common Core, PARCC or M-Step teachings.

You type like you haven't had children in a school district for over 30 years. It shows exactly how out of touch and inexperienced you are to talk about what a white family has to face, let alone a black one.

That is a terrible idea and it should never be attempted until such time as federal property is involved or threatened. Lets let the states handle their own ****.

Either do the Democrats. That is why high graduates in Baltimore cannot read or do simple math. And that is not the only city, it is one of many, all Democratic shitholes.

Common Core is nothing but anti-American propaganda and needs to go.

When's the last time YOU taught Common Core Math?

Or helped a child through it?

Do you even know what that is???

1,034 people have been shot and killed by police in the past year
Updated June 19, 2020

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/

In 2015, The Washington Post began to log every fatal shooting by an on-duty police officer in the United States. In that time there have been more than 5,000 such shootings recorded by The Post.

After Michael Brown, an unarmed black man, was killed in 2014 by police in Ferguson, Mo., a Post investigation found that the FBI undercounted fatal police shootings by more than half. This is because reporting by police departments is voluntary and many departments fail to do so.

The Post’s data relies primarily on news accounts, social media postings and police reports. Analysis of more than five years of data reveals that the number and circumstances of fatal shootings and the overall demographics of the victims have remained relatively constant.
Rate of shootings remains steady

Despite the unpredictable events that lead to fatal shootings, police nationwide have shot and killed almost the same number of people annually — nearly 1,000 — since The Post began its project. Probability theory may offer an explanation. It holds that the quantity of rare events in huge populations tends to remain stable absent major societal changes, such as a fundamental shift in police culture or extreme restrictions on gun ownership.
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Black Americans are killed at a much higher rate than white Americans

Although half of the people shot and killed by police are white, black Americans are shot at a disproportionate rate. They account for less than 13 percent of the U.S. population, but are killed by police at more than twice the rate of white Americans. Hispanic Americans are also killed by police at a disproportionate rate.

The rate at which black Americans are killed by police is more than twice as high as the rate for white Americans.
1,298killed(total)904killed2,478killed219killed42M39M197M49MBlack31 permillionHispanic23 permillionWhite13 permillionOther4 permillion

Gives me what I need to know about Common Core.
https://www.institute4learning.com/2018/04/26/12-reasons-the-common-core-is-bad-for-americas-schools/

What do you expect with 330 million people? That is a very small number.

Seattle is orderly. It doesn't need a tinpot authoritarian coming in using a phony "need to restore order" to come in and take over. That's how Amin, Noriega, Franco, Mussolinin and Hitler all started. Trump is trying to follow the Dictators' Playbook, and that's the truth.

Those idiots can't even plant a garden. The residents of Seattle are terrified.

No, they have one in charge.

they have one in chief.

Again, you're showing you know nothing about how our Education system works.

Jan 30, 2020,03:02pm EST
Common Core Is Dead. Long Live Common Core.
Peter Greene

The Common Core State Standards are dead. Done. Finished. Authorities have told us so.

Betsy DeVos delivered a brief eulogy at the American Enterprise Institute earlier this month. “And at the U.S. Department of Education, Common Core is dead,” she declared.

In Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis just announced that the work of “rooting out all vestiges of Common Core” done, and new standards would now replace the old, unloved ones.

So is that it? Can we get out our forks and prepare to stick them in the Common Core? Or have the reports of their death been greatly exaggerated? Sad to say, it’s probably that second one. The Common Core may very well be shambling along, zombie-like, at a school district near you. Here are the factors that may be keeping it up and shambling.

When Betsy DeVos says the federal government isn’t supporting the Core any more, she’s being disingenuous. The Department of Education never officially endorsed or required the standards. It used winks and nudges and the extortion-style leverage that came from No Child Left Behind requirement that all states get all students to achieve above-average scores by 2014. But to “root out” Common Core at the federal level, all the current administration had to do was... nothing.

Likewise, many opponents of the Core developed a picture of it that was not closely related to reality (”Common Core will turn your children into anti-Christian commies”). This has provided politicians with a ready-made straw man that they can “vanquish” without actually touching the Common Core at all. A good example would be former Florida Governor Rick Scott, who “replaced” the Common Core Standards with Florida standards that were almost identical.

So we end up with people selling yeti repellant. You can tell it “works” because when you look out in the front yard, you don’t see any yeti. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t big bears hiding in your back yard.

The Ghost In The Machine

If your state or district adopted some nifty teaching software in the last decade, then Common Core is embedded in your schools.

Retired teacher and blogger Nancy Bailey points out that a huge number of Florida schools use the iReady program for math and reading, and as the program’s own website boasts, “iReady was built for the Common Core.” A long-time education observer, she’s unconvinced that Florida has killed anything.

For the past decade, “aligned with the Common Core” has been a regular marketing point for most ed tech products. Those products are organized around assessing, testing, and teaching the Common Core standards. The state can change the standards, but until the software manufacturers change the standards, students will still be sitting down for screen time with the Common Core.

Test Test Test

High stakes testing has been with us longer than the Common Core, but part of the concept of Common Core was to get all fifty states testing the same thing. The PARCC and SBA tests were built to test how well schools were teaching Common Core Standards, and while many states dumped them, they replaced them with tests that were similarly aligned. Those test results were in turn used to evaluate districts, schools and teachers, and because the stakes were high, it’s those tests, more than any other single factor, that gave the Common Core power over what happens in the classroom. Even the SAT and ACT have become more Common Core friendly (the head of the College Board, producers of the SAT, is David Coleman, an architect of the Common Core).

As long as a state uses high-stakes testing as the foundation of its education evaluation program, whatever the test is aligned to will drive the school bus— and right now, all of those tests are aligned to the Common Core Standards.

Your Principal’s Principles

One of the great irony of the Common Core Standards is that there is no standardized way to align to them. When they rolled out, teaching staffs across the nation were piled into professional development sessions to learn how to “unpack” the standards and translate them into classroom pedagogy. Meanwhile, the folks who wrote the standards dispersed almost immediately releasing the Core into the wild; if you want to call an authority who can answer your questions about the standards, there is no such number, no central office working to insure that the standards are properly understood and applied.

This meant that local districts were on their own pretty much from Day One, which has meant that implementation has ranged from directives like “We will follow these standards to the letter” all the way to “Just get the standards blanks on lesson plans filled in.” Some administrators have held a strong line in defending their staff’s right to use their own best professional judgment, while others have aggressively championed the standards. It’s also worth noting that for a bad administrator, who lacks the knowledge or comfort level to deal with the messy and complex business of teaching, the standards were an easy out, a handy list to carry around.

High stakes testing has driven much of the standards adoption. For example, the ELA standards include some talking and listening standards, but those are never on the test, so many schools simply ignore them. How embedded the Core is in your school also depends on how concerned your administrators are about the test. In the early days, teachers heard a lot of, “Just teach the standards well, and the test scores will take care of themselves.” That turned out to be exceptionally untrue. So your administration may have implemented all sorts of programs to boost passing rates. All of these programs are tied to the Core.

In short, your district administration may have tried to limit the intrusion of Common Core, or they may have ground it into the district’s DNA. Both what they’re enforcing and how hard they’re enforcing it vary with location.

The Actual Classroom

There’s no way to collect hard data, but I’d wager that roughly 99% of the teachers in U.S. public schools have personally modified the standards, and that includes the ones who say they really like Common Core and enjoy using it.

A decade ago, the number would have been lower, because most teachers are good team players who will try what they’re commanded to try. But teachers are also likely to change what observably fails in the classroom. If whatever Common Core authority they’re following (and there are many) tells them to do X, they may try it a few times, but if it fails and fails and fails, they’ll change their practice. They may do it with administrative support or not. If administration enforces the Core with an iron hand, it may be hard to fight against being required to commit educational malpractice (and for the effects of that, I refer you to our teacher “shortage”), but all alignment to the Core really requires is some paperwork. And as a classroom teacher, you can claim just about anything is aligned to the Core.

The above factors will define the size of the cage that a teacher has been confined to, but for the final word on how much Common Core your child is really getting, a frank conversation with the classroom teacher is necessary.

Despite reports to the contrary, the Common Core is only mostly dead, more dead in some schools than in others.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2020/01/30/common-core-is-dead-long-live-common-core/#6a92b6aa5e65

This professor is simply teaching and telling the truth about Islam.

Notice a violent threat from those mad about Islam being accused of teaching violence. I guess that backs up what the professor says.
https://pjmedia.com/culture/robert-spencer/2020/06/10/cair-files-suit-professor-is-disapproving-of-islam-n514900

Trump Rally Live Updates: President Aims to Reinvigorate Re-Election Effort

The president heads to Tulsa a day after the Juneteenth holiday and during a period of nationwide protests over racism and police violence.

Right Now

A smaller-than-expected crowd awaited President Trump for his first campaign rally in months.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/20/us/trump-rally-tulsa.html

An enthusiastic but smaller-than-expected crowd awaited the president.

In Tulsa, the 19,000-seat BOK Center remained underfilled, with a crowd that was well below the campaign’s expectations.

A planned appearance by Mr. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence to an outdoor stage outside the arena, to address what was expected to be an overflow crowd, was canceled, as just dozens of supporters were waiting by the stage at the time the speakers were supposed to arrive, Astead Herndon reported from inside the arena.

The Trump campaign blamed protesters interfering with supporters and blocking access to metal detectors for the smaller-than-expected crowd.

They put the blame where it belongs. Democrats should give it a try.

Undercounting Those Killed by the N.Y.P.D.

A never-released report shows that the number of people killed by police activity in New York is more than twice what has been reported.
Mara Gay

By Mara Gay

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/opinion/police-involved-deaths-new-york-city.html

June 19, 2020

On the morning of May 30, as protests over the killing of George Floyd were sweeping the country, Mary Bassett, a prominent expert at Harvard University’s public health school and New York City’s former health commissioner, sent an email to Mayor Bill de Blasio.

“Greetings!” she wrote. “This seems a good time to raise this.”

During her tenure in 2015, she told him, the city’s Health Department had begun conducting an internal review of reporting on police-involved deaths. The Police Department had helped, sharing data at the direction of then-Commissioner James O’Neill.

The Health Department’s findings, compiled in a 2017 draft report, were striking: Though fewer people per capita die at the hands of the police in New York than in almost any other place in the United States, the city was significantly underreporting the deaths. The review also found that the incidence of deaths at the hands of the police was five times higher for black New Yorkers than for whites.

Dr. Bassett’s team identified 105 people killed by the police or police activity during the period from 2010 to 2015, more than double the 46 the agency had publicly reported for those years. Of the unreported deaths, 13 were bystanders hit by police bullets or pedestrians killed from vehicle accidents during police activity. The team also found deep racial disparities in the deaths. For example, six black New Yorkers and five Hispanic residents who died as a result of encounters with the police during this period were unarmed; no unarmed whites were killed.

The findings, which could have changed police practices and saved lives, never saw the light of day.

Dr. Bassett left the administration in August 2018, before the work was complete, but continued to consult on the review with her former colleagues in the Health Department. Dermot Shea, who replaced Mr. O’Neill as police commissioner late last year, has expressed little interest in the project.

“Commissioner Shea decided not to continue this work,” Dr. Bassett wrote to Mr. de Blasio in her May 30 email, “with the result that the findings and the collaboration have been effectively buried. You could resurrect it.”

Mr. de Blasio never spoke with Dr. Bassett about her email. His press secretary, Freddi Goldstein, said some of the data in question is already available online, in Police Department reports. “Transparency and accountability are critical, and the Mayor is fully committed to both,” she said in an email. “City Hall only learned about this project in the last few weeks. We have since engaged the Department of Health and the NYPD to learn more and are committed to making data more accessible.”

Police Department officials said they never tried to stop the Health Department from making the findings public. But after they backed away last year, the project languished.

Oxiris Barbot, Dr. Bassett’s successor at the Health Department, which is responsible for reporting all deaths in New York, still hasn’t published the report. The city’s chief medical examiner, Barbara Sampson, was also involved in the review. None of these officials alerted the City Council, much less the public, about what they found.

Asked about the three-year delay in reporting, a Health Department spokesman blamed the demands of the coronavirus pandemic. He wouldn’t say when or whether the report would be published. “We remain committed to creating a robust and accurate record of law enforcement related deaths in our vital statistics,” he wrote in an email to me.

Dr. Bassett was one of Mr. de Blasio’s most high-profile hires, a well-known expert on racial disparities in health in the United States and elsewhere. She now leads the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

In 2015, after reading an investigation by The Guardian that found deaths caused by the police were vastly undercounted in the United States, she decided to review the data her own agency was reporting.

Dr. Bassett said the idea was to improve New York’s reporting on police-involved deaths and make it readily available to the public. She also hoped to save black lives. “There’s never been a single year since the United States’ founding when black people haven’t been sicker and died younger than whites,” she said in a phone interview. “The reasons for this are social in origin. That means they can be changed.”

The draft report of the department’s 2017 findings obtained by The Times shows that the reasons for New York’s undercount were many. The city’s official count often excludes people who die in incidents related to police activity, such as after running into traffic while being pursued by officers. In some cases, police activity wasn’t indicated on medical examiner reports, leading the Health Department to misclassify the deaths. Dr. Sampson, the chief medical examiner, said that she would support changes to the way the city identifies these deaths, but that it wasn’t her call. “It really in my mind falls upon the Department of Health to make those recommendations,” she told me.

The Health Department was able to identify six of the 13 bystander deaths only through media reports. Dr. Bassett said all of the deaths should have been classified as police-related from the start. “The definition was too narrow and didn’t fully capture the mortality impact of encounters with police,” she said.

Mayor Bill de Blasio won office in 2013 promising to rein in the city’s Police Department, a stance that was not well received by officers. Early in his term, hundreds of officers turned their backs on him at two police funerals. After that, the mayor became among the Police Department’s loudest defenders. His administration began using a more expansive interpretation of a law known as 50-A, blocking the release of disciplinary records that had long been made available. On his watch, the police officer who placed Eric Garner in the chokehold that led to his death remained on the force for five years, even collecting overtime pay

For years, Dr. Bassett’s team meticulously collected data on police-involved deaths, but she chose not to tell the mayor or City Hall. When I asked her why, she said, “I thought they would tell us to stop.”

Instead of from the mayor, Dr. Bassett found help from an unlikely source: the police commissioner, James O’Neill.

Dr. Bassett said she met with the commissioner in September 2017 at One Police Plaza, the department’s hulking concrete headquarters near the Brooklyn Bridge. Dr. Bassett said Police Commissioner Shea, then a deputy commissioner, was there, as well as Dr. Sampson.

Dr. Bassett and her team showed them the data, telling them she had determined her agency was underreporting police-related deaths. To her surprise, Mr. O’Neill didn’t question the findings. “You should have come to us,” Dr. Bassett recalls the commissioner saying. He asked to be a part of the review. Using data provided by the Police Department, the Health Department identified about 10 more deaths during the same six-year period, Dr. Bassett said. In a phone interview, Mr. O’Neill said the collaboration with Dr. Bassett was part of a larger effort to increase transparency about the Police Department he led. “We worked well together,” he said.

But by January of last year, the Police Department had stopped sharing the data with the Health Department. In a phone call this week, police officials said they already release much of the information to the public in their annual use-of-force reports.

In other words, New York’s Police Department prefers to publish its own reports on its own terms. Dr. Bassett’s dream of building a modern health surveillance system to track and prevent police-related deaths was dead.

For nearly three years, leadership at the city’s Health Department, Police Department and Medical Examiner’s Office knew the city was underreporting police-involved deaths, but said nothing.

New Yorkers deserve to know why.

Why does the media continue the war on cops? Do they ever want any semblance of law and order? It sure does not look like it.

Sounds like there is plenty of blame to go around. Remember NY is a Democratic shithole.

Better ask why the cops continue to kill black people doing nothingt wrong at a far higher frequency than they do whites (which is also a problem).. Qualified immunity means it's almost impossible to get a wrongful death conviction aginst wrongful acts by cops, which is why there's a push on to change the law. If cops **** up, they have to be responsible for it, not play a get-out-of-jail-free card. The name of the game is accountability.

If NY is so bad it kinda makes you wonder why everybody want to live there instead of whatever red state hellhole you live in.