White House Calls for 250,000 Tutors to Make Up for COVID Lockdown Learning Loss Worsened by Democrats

 

After the Biden administration colluded with teachers unions to keep schools closed, the White House is apparently waking up to the damage their policies did to the rising generation and, as usual, their solution is even more government intervention.

Specifically, according to an announcement made by Biden's Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, the Biden administration wants 250,000 new tutors in order to carry out an "academic recovery" that is, again, needed due to the Biden administration's COVID policies.

Sounding like firefighters responding to a house they set ablaze, the Department of Education explained that "the Biden-Harris Administration announced a series of actions to support students' academic recovery and to ensure recovery efforts are meeting student, parent, and family needs." That is, the Department of Education is pretending to help after they caused the harm in the first place. 

Where was the focus on making sure student, parent, and family needs were met when the Biden administration — admittedly — let Randi Weingarten and her American Federation of Teachers set the CDC's COVID policy for schools? 

Randi Weingarten: "[The CDC] asked us for language and we gave them language when they asked us for it."

The teachers union crafted CDC guidelines to keep schools closed longer.

"Science" pic.twitter.com/cAPiZjjr84

— Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) May 19, 2021

Where was the concern for families where both parents work but students were stuck at home alone? For students who were falling behind and losing month after month of needed in-person instruction and help? Young students missing out on important development and socialization that's impossible when learning through a screen?

Education Secretary Cardona claimed the new initiative "will mean more students have a trusted adult in their corner, and more adults are prepared to address students’ academic, emotional, social, and mental health needs." Again, this is apparently a new focus for the Biden administration who kept schools closed, kids learning through screens, and parents scrambling to keep their children from falling hopelessly behind. 

As the Education Department's announcement explains — acknowledging the setbacks suffered by America's students without accepting any responsibility — the agency will be "recruiting 250,000 new tutors and mentors" in order "to make up for lost instructional time."

In a companion announcement posted by the White House on Wednesday, there's additional acknowledgment that "America’s students are on average two to four months behind in reading and math because of the COVID-19 pandemic," but the White House release also fails to mention why students fell behind — school closures spurred by CDC guidelines that were created by teachers unions. Despite their failure to help get students back in schools, the Biden administration is pushing for $122 billion in taxpayer funds from the American Rescue Plan to go toward fixing the damage caused, at least in part, or worsened by the Biden administration's policies.

The Biden administration also calls for summer learning and after-school programs in addition to the 250,000 tutors — all to make up for lost learning time that was made worse by the Biden administration. They're playing catchup and admitting a problem exists, but won't admit that they did the opposite of helping fix the problem.

Dem Senators Turn on Biden Over Cannabis Policy

 

A group of Democratic senators expressed their extreme “disappointment” with the administration’s federal policies on cannabis.

In a letter to President Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra on Wednesday, Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Ed Markey (D-MA), Cory Booker (D-NJ), and Ron Wyden (D-OR) praised the administration's recent pardons and commutations for non-violent cannabis-related offenses but said more needs to be done “to address the racist and harmful legacy of cannabis policies on Black and Brown communities.”

The lawmakers also addressed a letter Booker and Warren sent to Garland last year asking him to begin the process of declassifying cannabis as a Schedule I drug. Not only did it take more than six months for an answer, but the senators criticized the “extraordinarily disappointing” half-page response, which pointed to HHS’s determination that “cannabis has not been proven in scientific studies to be a safe and effective treatment for any disease or condition.”

The lawmakers argue the excuse ignores DOJ and the Drug Enforcement Administration’s role in beginning the descheduling process, which can happen independent from an HHS determination. 

They also claimed “it is obvious that cannabis has widely accepted medical benefits, affirmed by medical and scientific communities both here and across the globe.”

Additionally, the Democrats asked about another letter they sent last year that went unanswered, calling on the president to pardon those convicted of non-violent cannabis offenses.

“The administration’s failure to coordinate a timely review of its cannabis policy is harming thousands of Americans, slowing research, and depriving Americans of their ability to use marijuana for medical or other purposes,” the lawmakers concluded. “We ask that the administration act quickly to rectify this decade long injustice harming individuals, especially Black and Brown communities.”

Biden’s Green New Deal Is Increasing Greenhouse Gases

 

Here’s an amazing but true statistic. After more than a decade of declining carbon emissions here in the United States, in 2021, President Joe Biden’s first year in office, emissions rose.

In other words, not only have Biden’s energy policies been a disaster for our economy and national security as we have become more dependent on Russia and Iran, but they haven’t worked as a global warming solution.

To understand the utter futility of Biden’s “renewable energy” crusade, we must go back about 15 years in time to when the amazing shale revolution, thanks to energy pioneers such as Harold Hamm of Oklahoma, the man who drilled the Bakken Shale in North Dakota, began. These new drilling techniques have vastly expanded America’s natural gas production over the past decade and turned America into the world’s leading oil and gas superpower.

Because clean natural gas production soared and replaced coal as the No. 1 source of power generation, not only did America get rich off these bountiful resources but we also reduced our greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, over the six years covering 2014 through 2020, we led the world in our reductions in carbon dioxide emissions. Our emissions fell by 22%. That was more than former President Barack Obama’s cap-and-tax plan would have reduced these emissions.

Ironically, the 10-year trend of declining carbon dioxide emissions actually ended when Biden took office. The conventional explanation for this is that as the economy opened up after COVID-19, emissions rose. People were flying less and driving their cars a lot more.

But that is only part of the story. Iconoclastic environmentalist Michael Shellenberger explains the bigger story:

“In 2021, emissions in the U.S. increased mostly because of increased coal use, *not* because of higher econ growth. Why? Because nat gas became more expensive. Why? Because of inadequate supply. Why? Chronic ‘under-investment in production & pipelines, thanks to ESG & climate activists,'” he wrote recently.

We need to add Biden’s war on fossil fuels to that mix. The Energy Department data confirms that in 2021, coal use rose in the U.S. and natural gas consumption fell. That was because Biden’s Green New Deal agenda made coal a more attractive alternative in terms of costs.

So Biden’s agenda has backfired. More evidence rolls in from the rest of the world. Germany has acknowledged that it will burn more coal in the years ahead to get cheap power. But they aren’t going to get much of it from the U.S. Rather, they’ll get it from China, which has tripled its coal output and doesn’t care at all about whether its increased production will negatively affect the environment. China has among the laxest environmental laws in the world. So none of this is stopping climate change.

China has been one of the biggest winners from the Biden war on energy. The second winner is Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, who is waltzing to the bank. Russia has made $100 billion selling oil and gas to the U.S. and others at inflated prices.

Meanwhile, Biden’s war on coal production at home has led to a more than doubling of the world price of coal, and in some cases, the price increases in Europe have risen tenfold because of mining restrictions.

I don’t oppose coal production, and I believe the environmentalist movement’s crusade against coal as part of our energy mix makes no economic sense. We are simply displacing West Virginia and Pennsylvania coal miners with Chinese mining. We need coal in our energy mix, as even the Germans now admit.

Then there is the collateral damage of $100 billion of lost annual output in the U.S. because of the anti-energy climate change agenda. Again, none of this makes any sense. Why are we sacrificing our own economic opportunities and handing them to China on a silver platter?

Biden, however, could not be bothered to care. At the NATO conference this past week, he chattered about the virtues of windmills and solar panels, as if the U.S. is not experiencing an energy crisis of his own making.

What all this means is that if we want to save our economy from raging inflation and at the same time save the planet, we should be producing all of the U.S. energy we can.

The Squad’s Newest Member Becomes Increasingly Aggressive About SCOTUS

 

The socialist squad’s newest member in the U.S. House of Representatives, Democrat Jamaal Bowman, continues to lash out after the Supreme Court rule 5-4 to return abortion law to the states. 

In his latest tantrum, Bowman is calling for the impeachment of Supreme Court Justices who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade and claims they broke the law by doing so. 

The Supreme Court is brazenly violating the Constitution, so it’s time to impeach those who have broken the law and expand the court.— Congressman Jamaal Bowman (@RepBowman) July 2, 2022

Instead of doing their job and upholding the Constitution and the rights of the people, SCOTUS decides cases based on their faith and their far-right extremism.— Congressman Jamaal Bowman (@RepBowman) July 5, 2022

SCOTUS’s opinion on overturning Roe v Wade sounded like the Justices were living in the 1800s.

Abortion is healthcare, and it’s a human right.— Congressman Jamaal Bowman (@RepBowman) July 4, 2022

Bowman appears to be following the lead of Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has been apoplectic in the aftermath of the Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling. On Twitter she called it a “judicial coup.” 

At this point we should be well beyond partisanship.

Members of Congress have sworn an oath to the Constitution. It is our duty to check the Court’s gross overreach of power in violating people’s inalienable rights and seizing for itself the powers of Congress and the President.— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 30, 2022

Meanwhile, security has been increased for Supreme Court Justices as Democrats continue to descend on their homes.

July 4, 1776: Sacrificing for Freedom

 

Yesterday we celebrated the 246th anniversary of America’s founding. It came about as an act of Congress. The differences between the Congress of 1776 and 2022 are extraordinary.

Then, Congress had just 56 members. Now, 535. Then, as now, our nation was in the midst of insurrection. On Wednesday, April 19, 1775, British troops fired on American “insurrectionists” in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts.

Congress sprang into action!

Fourteen months later, June 11, 1776, the Continental Congress met in Philadelphia to decide what to do about British efforts to impose total control over everyone in their 13 American colonies.

Congress appointed a committee and ordered them to draft a secret document. On Wednesday, June 12, 1776, the committee met in a rented room in a boarding house at Market and 7th Streets.

It took the five members of the secret committee 14 days — they didn’t meet on Sundays — to reach agreement on a draft. On Friday, June 28, 1776, they presented their draft to those who set them to their task.

The “committee of the whole” chaired by Benjamin Harrison of Virginia tabled the resolution for editing. In just two days the larger body made 86 changes, eliminating 480 words and leaving 1,337 words.

The evening of July 1, 1776, was hot and steamy. The chairman of the five-man committee sat at the portable desk he designed and built and began preparing what all hoped would be the final version of the document.

Upon the urging of the chairman, he was left alone to complete his work.

On Tuesday morning, July 2, a 33-year-old Virginia farmer delivered his “fair draft” on four pages of parchment. The farmer was Thomas Jefferson, and the body to which he delivered the document was the Second Continental Congress.

These 56 representatives of the 13 colonies resolved that day to declare independence from Great Britain. That night in a letter to his wife, Abigail, committee member John Adams wrote:

“The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade …”

According to the Congressional Record, on July 4, 1776, Benjamin Harrison of Charles City County, Virginia, “delivered to congress a final reading of the document which was unanimously agreed upon.”

The document, of course, is the Declaration of Independence.

To this day it remains the only seminal document of any nation on Earth to pay homage to God Almighty. No founding document for any other nation reflects on “the laws of nature and of nature’s God.” No other proclamation declares all people “are created equal” and “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

No other national manuscript appeals “to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions …” or places the fate of its signers in the hands of God with a prayer like this:

“For the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.”

Those prayers and pledges were ratified in the U.S. Constitution on Sept. 17, 1787, and the Bill of Rights on Dec. 19, 1791.

Today, in the midst of an insurrection against our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution, “We the People” must elect a Congress willing to sacrifice “selfish” for “selfless.”