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Ask any black person.

Protecting that right is critical. Knowing today’s dangers and proposed safeguards is essential for every citizen.

Congress and the states must ensure that all eligible Americans are able to vote and that their votes are not stolen by fraud or lost through administrative errors.

Every American must be able to trust the process and the results. Without that trust, the democratic system itself breaks down.

The Heritage Foundation’s free eBook Ensuring the Integrity of Our Electoral System tells you 9 “reforms” from the progressive left that are actually recipes for election fraud or untrustworthy results.

These Progressive “reforms” could lead to strife and crisis.

And you will read about 7 policies proposed by The Heritage Foundation to protect the electoral system and ensure a fair, free vote—and safeguard our republic.

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EducationCommentary

The Woke Managerial Revolution Goes to School Related to post #111 below

Leftists indoctrinated your college kid....and now your kindergarten kid...Jarrett Stepman / @JarrettStepman / December 10, 2020 / 72 Comments
High school students walk out of classes, demanding more government action to stop climate change on March 15, 2019 in New York City. (Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis/Getty Images)

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Jarrett Stepman @JarrettStepman

Jarrett Stepman is a contributor to The Daily Signal and co-host of The Right Side of History podcast. jarrett.stepman@dailysignal.com. He is also the author of the new book, College campus safe spaces, speech codes, and woke witch hunts may be coming to a high school near you.

Charles Fain Lehman chronicled in The Washington Free Beacon how school districts and private schools around the country are adopting woke, “anti-racist” policies based on critical theory ideologies once ensconced in the ivory tower.

Schools are adding the Pulitzer Prize-winning but factually challenged 1619 Project, to their curriculum. The 1619 Project was aimed at reframing American history as being rooted in slavery rather than the ideas of liberty from 1776.

This is only the tip of the iceberg.

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Los Angeles’ elite Harvard-Westlake School recently announced that it will start teaching 11th-grade history from a “critical race theory perspective.”

Virginia’s Fairfax County public school district paid Ibram X. Kendi, the leading proponent of “anti-racism,” whichseems a lot like racism in the name of social justice, $22,000 to deliver an hourlong lecture to teachers and staff.

Lehman continues:
Meanwhile, the tony Connecticut boarding school Loomis-Chaffee has introduced mandatory Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training for students and now requires faculty members to read Kendi’s ‘Stamped from the Beginning’ and [Robin] DiAngelo’s ‘White Fragility’ for ‘professional development.’

 

San Diego’s public schools have overhauled grading for fear of racist impact, and New York City wants to follow. The KIPP Schools, long a model for charter school excellence, have dumped their ‘Work hard. Be nice’ slogan, claiming that ‘working hard and being nice is not going to dismantle systemic racism.’
I’ve written about some of these cases, too.

Loudoun County, Virginia, not only adopted a program to enhance the “low level of racial consciousness and racial literacy” of its public school teachers and faculty, but it added punishments for teachers who questioned the policy in the public or private capacity.

The punishments were removed after the policy drew media attention and public outcry, but the woke agenda remained.

That critical race theory and various “woke” policies are proliferating at public and elite private schools around the country is disturbing enough. But Lehman highlighted a critical element as to how and why this is happening now, and on a vast scale.

>>> Listen to The Daily Signal Podcast’s interview with Charles Fain Lehman.
These ideas have emerged alongside the surge of administrative bloat occurring in K-12 schools in the last several decades.

It seems this seemingly exponential growth in school administration has created two serious crises.

The first, of course, is the rising cost of public education, where a much larger share of the budget is devoted to administrators rather than teachers and students. This has often come at the expense of teachers’ salaries, which have generally not increased in line with upticks in school spending.

My colleague, Lindsey Burke, also director of education policy at The Heritage Foundation, and education researcher Benjamin Scafidi, an economics professor at Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University, explained this process in 2016.

Since 1950, public schools have dramatically increased their staff compared to the number of students.

Burke and Scafidi used District of Columbia schools as an example.

“According to data that the District of Columbia Public Schools submitted to the U.S. Department of Education, the District’s public schools experienced a 3.1% decline in its student population between the 1993-94 and 2013-14 school years,” Burke and Scafidi wrote. “Despite this decline in students, D.C. Public Schools increased its staffing by 7.7% (all increases are in full-time equivalents).”

And where did those staff increases occur? The number of teachers declined overall, but the number administrators and all other staff grew by an incredible 19.3%.

Growth in administrative staff appears to be hitting elite private schools, too. And what are these administrative additions doing exactly? Clearly, many are foisting critical race theory and other ideologies on the student body and staff.

Lehman laid out the source of the second problem caused by the staffing surge:
Positions like ‘director of diversity’ emerged in the early 2000s, Exeter [diversity, equity, and inclusion] chief Stephanie Bramlett told the prestigious school’s alumni magazine. As far back as 2007, the journal Educational Leadership was emphasizing the need for administrators to confront ‘issues of social dominance and social justice.’

Portland Public Schools created its ‘office of equity’ in 2011. Holy Name High School in tiny Parma Heights, Ohio, added a director of diversity and inclusion in 2018. Justice High School already had diversity advisers on the payroll, and Harvard-Westlake’s new commitments add to a five-woman diversity team and a diversity conference held annually since 2018.
This revolution comes through the work of high-priced consultants and consulting firms, as in the case of Fairfax and other school districts. Meanwhile, the number of administrators continues to grow to meet the demand of the woke crusade.

“f you look at these schools, their roster of [diversity, equity, and inclusion] people [has] only grown over the past five to 10 years,” Lehman said in an interview with The Daily Signal’s Virginia Allen.
They might’ve started with one diversity chief, and then because of that person finding issues, they hire another person, and then another person, and then you have a seven-person group who’s responsible for diversity.

And it is telling to me that as these organizations add administrators, the number of acquisitions of racism only increases, the number of identified instances of racism only increases. Maybe they’re measuring better, but they may also typically be measuring more.
That many of our colleges and universities are radical should be no surprise to anyone. After all, William F. Buckley wrote “

God and Man at Yale

God and Man at Yale

” in 1951 to explain the left-wing drift of his school and many others. In the last half-century, the situation has become much worse.

But now we are seeing the same process transform America’s K-12 education, where college-educated administrators and diversity officers—the well-paid apparatchiks of social justice—increasingly foist critical theory onto teachers and students, often at taxpayer expense.

 

More States, Trump Campaign Join Texas in Lawsuit Questioning Election Results By Fred Lucas

“We will be INTERVENING in the Texas (plus many other states) case. This is the big one. Our Country needs a victory!” Trump tweets. More

NEWS

House Conservatives Will ‘Fight Back Against Radical Left,’ New Chairman Says By Rachel del Guidice

“Rarely do Republicans fight back,” says Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., incoming chairman of the Republican Study Committee. More

 

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Thu, Dec 10 at 8:56 AMWhat we saw in the primary and general elections this year was sickening; allegations of election officials stuffing ballots, reports of campaign workers forging stakes of fake votes, judges warping the law to protect the guilty and steal the sacred right of “one person, one vote” are all revolting.

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