- Britain’s Labour Party conference pledges to take over private schools, confiscating endowments as well as land and property [Benjamin Kentish, Independent]
- New York Department of Education readies moves to place private and religious schools under much tighter government control [Peter Murphy, City Journal]
- Chicago teachers’ union sends delegation on “solidarity trip” to Venezuela [Mark Glennon, Wirepoints; Hannah Leone, Chicago Tribune]
- So-called Blaine Amendments bar religious schools in participating in voucher programs to which they would be admitted were they nonsectarian. A case of religious discrimination, and if so, violative of the First Amendment? [Ilya Shapiro and Dennis Garcia on Cato merits brief in Supreme Court case of Espinosa v. Montana, Trevor Burrus and Patrick Moran on certiorari stage brief]
- “The [California] draft curriculum says that ethnic studies courses created by districts from the proposed curriculum will… ‘critique empire and its relationship to white supremacy, …capitalism, and other forms of power and oppression'” [Valerie Strauss, Washington Post/Lowell Sun; Elizabeth Castillo, Cal Matters; Joanne Jacobs]
- “Kamala Harris expresses ‘regret’ over California truancy law” [Katie Galioto, Politico; background; “Souvarine”, Daily Kos (“criminal penalties for parents of truant children” are among “the earliest and most enduring progressive victories”; also tracing publicity on the issue to a certain scribbler of “libertarian claptrap,” though I made clear I was building on the earlier work of, e.g., the Marshall Project)]
- Despite strenuous efforts in Seattle and D.C. suburbs to impose “equity lens” on school systems and train all sides about implicit bias and systemic racism, no sign that actual outcome gaps are likely to budge [Rebecca Tan, Washington Post]
Filed under: California, Chicago, New York state, religious liberty, schools, Seattle, United Kingdom, Washington D.C.
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Re: “Britain’s Labour Party conference pledges to take over private schools”
Nothing against the State. Nothing outside the State.
You can’t indoctrinate children effectively is some are outside the system.
“Chicago teachers’ union sends delegation on “solidarity trip” to Venezuela”
Not quite. To crib from Hannah Leone’s article:
“Asked on WTTW’s “Chicago Tonight” last week about “some controversy” surrounding the excursion, union President Jesse Sharkey said: “Members go all kinds of places in the summer. This was neither an official trip nor something that was funded by the union. This is a group of people who are members of the CTU who decided to go to Venezuela.””
It’s true that after a public outcry had begun to build, Sharkey sought to establish some distance between his union and the Chavista pilgrims. A different story can be found in the Chicago City Wire account linked in an update at the end of the Wirepoints piece. Aside from quotes from critics, it includes links to publications by the travelers themselves (who referred to themselves as a delegation throughout) and hard-left publications that covered their trip:
https://chicagocitywire.com/stories/512808287-chicago-teachers-union-president-sharkey-in-hot-water-as-some-of-his-useful-idiots-visit-and-embrace-impoverished-socialist-venezuela
Labour is now led by an unabashed socialist and effectively controlled by an group called Momentum, which while they aren’t quite as bad as Militant in the 80’s (Marxist), are far better organised.
Normally this wouldn’t be a problem, but the Conservatives led by Boris Johnson and Tzer may, have messed up things so badly over the last three years that a Labour win not totally out of the question.