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Want To Improve Public School Outcomes? End Teacher Licensing

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Our public schools are failing children by requiring strict, impractical licensing requirements and excluding highly qualified, would-be instructors from entering the teaching profession. We must create flexibility in licensing requirements to allow more experienced people to expand young minds. The kids will see the inherent value in this approach and respond.   

Our children are starving for people who can provide them with practical skills that will allow them to build a life for themselves.  There are many adults who have those skills and would love the opportunity to prepare kids for a jobs-based economy, if only they were allowed.  There are welders, machinists, lawyers, artists, graphic designers, writers, accountants and more out there, all with skills our children need.  

This is even more reasonable when you consider the shortage of teachers affecting schools around the nation. A 2022 national survey of schools found that nearly half reported having at least one vacancy. It is foolish, at best, to require that people in the middle or at the tail end of their career spend a year or more to get a license, especially considering the stark number of unfilled positions.   

I am an attorney by trade.  I have a degree in law, yet I am precluded from teaching about the Constitution in Milwaukee Public Schools.  I also spent 12 years as a business litigator, but I would not be allowed to teach basic supply and demand.  In 22 years as a practicing attorney, I communicated in court with countless lawyers, judges, and juries, yet I cannot teach public speaking in our public schools.  At Milwaukee Lutheran, however, where I am the director of the Free

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Georgia Secretary Of State’s Office Urges Lawfare Against Election Officials Who Don’t Rubber-Stamp Results

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The chief operating officer of Georgia’s Secretary of State’s office urged “every jurisdiction” to have a plan to threaten election officials with lawfare if they don’t want to rubber-stamp election results (even if the results are “off by one or two”).

The executive director of the Center for Election Innovation and Research, David Becker, asked Gabe Sterling on Monday to detail “what might happen” if someone was “successful in delaying or denying certification [of election results].”

Sterling first argued that certification of an election is “ministerial” — meaning board members must effectively rubber-stamp election results despite their concerns — before rebuking newly passed rules that clarify county election board members can have access to election-related materials before certification.

The Georgia State Election Board (SEB) recently passed a rule (Rule 183-1-12-.02) that clarifies county election boards can fulfill their certification responsibility “after reasonable inquiry that the tabulation and canvassing of the election are complete and accurate and that the results are a true and accurate accounting of all votes cast in that election.” The SEB passed a separate rule (Rule 183-1-12-.12) that permits board members to review “all election related documentation created during the conduct of elections prior to certification of results.”

“This idea that they have to have more and more and more paper information at the end of the process even though they’ve been a part of the process the entire time is a little, you know, disconcerting that people don’t understand the role,” Sterling said.

Sterling then

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Biden-Harris Hid Info On Suspected Terrorists Crossing The Border From The Public, Former Border Agent Claims

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The Biden-Harris administration instructed Border Patrol officials from releasing information to the American public on suspected terrorists crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, a former senior agent claimed on Wednesday.

Speaking before the House Homeland Security Committee, retired Chief Border Patrol Agent Aaron Heitke alleged that administration officials told him he “could not release any names or information” on the increase of “significant interest aliens (SIAs)” — illegals with “significant ties to terrorism” — apprehended at the southern border. Heitke was promoted to chief patrol agent of the San Diego sector in February 2020 and retired last summer.

The former Border Patrol agent noted that the San Diego sector “averaged 10 to 15 SIA arrests per year” prior to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris taking office. Once “word got out” about the administration’s open border policies, the sector experienced an exponential increase in the number of SIAs apprehended by U.S. agents, Heitke contended.

After Biden and Harris took office, “San Diego went to over 100 SIAs in 2022, well over that in 2023, and even more than that registered this year,” he said. “These are only the ones we caught.”

Heitke claimed that in keeping information about suspected terrorists crossing the border hidden, the administration was “trying to convince the public there was no threat at the border.”

In addition to a mass influx of fentanyl into the United States, the retired border chief noted how he had to “release illegal aliens by the hundreds each day into

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Democrats’ Abortion Extremism Would Not Be Possible Without Help From Corporate Media

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The abortion extremism that Democrats have made the hallmark of their campaigns in recent years did not sneak into red states and onto debate stages by accident. It is the corporate media’s years-long willingness to amplify abortion activism that gave Democrats desperate to control the narrative on unborn life the ability to make killing babies the center of their 2024 election strategy.

For years, top Democrats have rejected any limits on ending life in the womb. Those blue party members who refuse to admit to their affinity for unlimited abortion so plainly, such as Vice President Kamala Harris, make it clear where they stand when they throw their support behind bills and ballot measures that seek to codify killing unborn babies through birth.

Democrats have publicly advocated for abortion for all regardless of the circumstances in all 50 states. They’ve even pledged to stop at nothing, including the filibuster, to ensure it happens. Yet, corporate media have deliberately avoided forcing pro-abortion politicians to reconcile their radicalism with Americans’ widespread support for restricting abortion.

To put it bluntly, the propaganda press quite literally let Democrats get away with murder without saying a word.

Even the talking heads that dare to ask Democrat candidates and officials exactly what week of pregnancy abortion permissions should end do so meekly and without adequate follow-up.

.@VP Harris calls on Congress to codify the abortion rights protections of Roe v. Wade, and does not say which week of pregnancy should be the cutoff

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