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Crime and [No] Punishment

Recently, I was having a conversation in which I had occasion to bring up RSA 193-H:2, which says: Schools shall ensure that all pupils are performing at the proficient level or above on the statewide assessment as established in RSA 193-C.

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It’s Not the Books That Need To Be Removed…

Here’s something that blows my mind. On the one hand, conservative parents continue to fight over the issue of pornographic books in school libraries. But on the other hand, they continue to send their children to a political institution controlled by woke progressives.

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The Feudal Model of State-funded Education

I recently attended Ian Underwood’s presentation titled “Back to Schools” at the Sullivan County GOP Committee meeting, during which he argued coherently and consistently for separating the concerns of what to include in government-funded schools and what to exclude.

Context is… Nothing.

The current in-vogue spin-room phrase is “context is everything.”  That phrase is used to provide an excuse for every unethical action, from teachers who are caught reading pornography to grade-school children, to politicians who vote to support “gender-affirming” surgery without their parent’s permission or knowledge.

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Musk U

Elon has announced his new University. You heard right. The world’s richest man is getting into public education. He’s got a plan to create a STEM-focused primary and secondary school in Austin.

Unfit For Liberty (Part 3, Courts)

For the last several months, many of us have been waiting on pins and needles for a judge to tell us what the state constitution says about education, which is remarkable because it’s not like that constitution is written using particularly difficult language.