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Teachers’ unions locked kids out of schools to get more of your money, not for safety
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Carol M. Swain -- Political Scientist and Commentator Carol M. Swain -- Political Scientist and Commentator
For Immediate Release:
Dateline: Nashville, TN
Tuesday, January 17, 2023

 

Teachers’ unions and Democrats want to perpetuate COVID pandemic forever

Way to go, teachers unions! America’s school children were among the big casualties of COVID-19 pandemic policies. Shuttered schools and remote learning sank national math scores, slashed individual lifetime earnings, and stunted the economic growth potential. Once again, our children were political pawns in a game rigged by teachers’ unions and blue state politicians.

Learning losses from teachers’ unions’ pandemic policies dumbed-down our children, setting us on a road to fiscal ruin. A newly released study by Stanford economist Eric Hanushek discovered in an of 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores that “eighth-grade math fell for every state, with a national average decline of eight NAEP scale score points. . .[The decline was] enough to erase all of the gains that had occurred since 2000.”

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ABOUT CAROL M. SWAIN

Carol Swain (Ph.D.) is an award-winning political scientist and former tenured professor at Princeton and Vanderbilt Universities. She is the author or editor of 10 books, including Be The People: A Call to Reclaim America’s Faith and Promise and The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration.
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