Access to Education

The single most impressive result of the mid-terms was the failure of the anti-government movement to influence the school boards, despite all the storm and fury. Only one-third of those slates won. Now, what does that mean?

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One month after leaving the Democratic Party, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii is joining Fox News as a paid contributor.

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By the time he was in the sixth grade, Larry Summers had created a system to calculate the probability that a baseball team would make it to the playoffs in October based on its performance through the Fourth of July. In 1965 the Philadelphia Bulletin described Summers as the most qualified eleven-year-old oddsmaker in baseball.

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China announces change of Covid strategy:

“Identify population base of the elderly, patients with underlying diseases, pregnant women, patients with chronic diseases and other groups, and formulate health and safety protection plans for them.”

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Access to Education

The Black population of the U.S. is 13.6%. That is a large portion of the population to be unproductive. The education of children is seen as a lynchpin for advancement in the culture and the focus of improving the circumstance of Blacks in the economy.

But...

Chronic absenteeism in the San Francisco Unified School District has more than doubled from pre-pandemic levels, rising from 14% to 28%, according to preliminary data for 2021-22. Students are considered chronically absent when they miss 10% of the 180-day school year.

Chronic absenteeism doubled for most students–chronic absenteeism among Asians, for example, doubled from 4% to 9%–but chronic absenteeism increased from 38% to a stunning 64% among African Americans. As a result, some schools with a large percentage of African American students have 80% or more of their student body chronically absent.

That is not a problem that is going to be changed by education techniques.