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A new podcast from The New York Times suggests that “Nice White Parents” are the reason for failures in the education system. The podcast, according to The Heritage Foundation’s Mary Clare Amselem, cites “examples of parents getting involved in the day-to-day operation of the school, and paints this involvement as an affront to public schooling,” implying parental involvement is somehow detrimental.
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The Washington, D.C. public school system spends $30,000 per sstudent, per year?
With some of the worst results in the country?
The number of administrators has increased almost eight times as fast as the number of students?
These are some of the fruits of the unholy alliance between the teachers’ unions and the Democratic Party.