Category: Public School
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Parody Becomes Reality
By Assemblyman Kevin Kiley – February 4, 2022 On Monday, Gavin Newsom told us about his “judicious” mask-wearing at the 49ers game. The next day, Eric Garcetti did him one better. LA’s Mayor assured the public that in his own maskless photo with Magic Johnson, he was holding his breath. Yes, his defense is he didn’t…
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Among Del Norte’s Brightest, Oh Really
By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – February 1, 2022 One would think that if you are referring to our local educators, youare possibly talking about locals who are among the brightest that thiscommunity has to offer. Yet it seems that a virus approximately 100nanometers in size that has difficulty being a health issue…
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A Two-Year Train Wreck
By Assemblyman Kevin Kiley – January 30, 2022 Late on Friday, Gavin Newsom’s handpicked EDD Director resigned. This comes after I questioned the Director at a recent hearing. Her answers were baffling. She couldn’t say why we have the highest unemployment in America. She couldn’t say if a single person was fired over the $31 billion in fraud. Newsom has…
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Educational Decline And The Decline Of Modern America
By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – January 21, 2022 It is not exactly a stretch to notice that with the decline of publiceducation over the past sixty years, that there has been a similardecline in the state of life here in the United States. While not all ofthe dysfunction and divisiveness can be…
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The Year of Accountability
By Assemblyman Kevin Kiley – January 20, 2022 Voting is underway in the Recall of three SF board members who refused to open schools. 2022 is the year of accountability. Even San Francisco’s liberal Mayor and Senator support the Recall. Throughout California, I’ve met many lifelong Democrats who are voting differently this year. Some things,…
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DNUSD, The Dumbing Down Of Del Norte County
By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – January 20, 2022 It seems like a half century ago that some people in this Countrynoticed the affect that public education was having on the Americanpeople. This awareness spawned a host of books and articles giving eachauthor’s reasons why this was happening, not that it might behappening. …
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Truancy
By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – January 18, 2022 – picture credit to education.jhu.edu In California every school age child is required to attend school. Itcan take on many forms, but the most common is the public schoolsystem. One of the most persistent problems in public education beyondsatisfactory performance for school age children…
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What Do We Get For $55 Million?
By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – January 17, 2022 Most people with children are well aware of the fact that our localschool district has not performed well for decades. Most do not knowthat the Del Norte Unified School District consumes just North of $55million per year. The first question one might ask is…
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Court approves lying to voters to pass bonds
Opinion Piece By Donna Westfal – January 14, 2022 In October 2021, I attended my first Citizen’s Oversight Committee meeting for the $25 million school bond. I was pretty disgusted. I didn’t expect that the members appointed to that board (with the exception of Angelina Countess-Bieber) merely rubber stamped everything seemingly without an ounce of…
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Rewarding failure in the K-12 system
Commentary By Donna Westfall – January 12, 2022 Lately, I’ve been wondering why we’re not getting a refund on our property taxes? For several years, I’ve been attending Del Norte School Board meetings sporadically to explain my rational about my expectations about education in public schools. Test scores tell me that our public school children…