Detroit Public Schools: 93% Not Proficient in Reading; 96% Not Proficient in Math

Detroit Public Schools: 93% Not Proficient in Reading; 96% Not Proficient in Math: 
By Terence P. Jeffrey | October 28, 2015 | 4:15 PM EDT
Flanked by Sen. Ted Kennedy and Rep. John Boehner, President George Bush signs the No Child Left Behind Act in January 2002. (AP Photo)
(CNSNews.com) -In the Detroit public school district, 96 percent of eighth graders are not proficient in mathematics and 93 percent are not proficient in reading.

That is according to the results of the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress tests published by the Department of Education’s National Center for Educational Statistics.

Only 4 percent of Detroit public school eighth graders are proficient or better in math and only 7 percent in reading. This is despite the fact that in the 2011-2012 school year—the latest for which the Department of Education has reported the financial data—the Detroit public schools had “total expenditures” of $18,361 per student and “current expenditures” of $13,330 per student.

According to data published by the Detroit Public Schools, the school district’s operating expenses in the fiscal year that ended on June 30, 2014 amounted to approximately $14,743 per student.

Nationwide, only 33 percent of public-school eighth graders scored proficient or better in reading in 2015 and only 32 percent scored proficient or better in mathematics."

Shotguns have 'virtually sold out' in Austria amid migrant fears

Shotguns have 'virtually sold out' in Austria amid migrant fears | Daily Mail Online:
Shotguns have 'virtually sold out' in Austria as citizens rush to buy arms amid fears of a massive influx of migrants, dealers claim

• There are now thought to be estimated 900,000 firearms in Austrian homes
• Police say around 70,000 guns have been sold this year alone in Austria
• Dealers say shotguns have almost sold out because you don't need permit
• Women are driving the sales rush as fears grow amid influx of refugees 

Glenn Beck Describes the Unique and Impressive Skill Ted Cruz Possesses, but Is ‘Not Comfortable Talking About’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Glenn Beck Describes the Unique and Impressive Skill Ted Cruz Possesses, but Is ‘Not Comfortable Talking About’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Cruz is able to remember conversations verbatim, according to Beck. Though the skill has proven helpful in the Senate and on the campaign trail, Beck recalled Cruz telling him that he feels like “everybody is going to think I’m a robot.”

However, Cruz’s memory may have been what gave the senator the ability to call out Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) over the Import-Export Bank reauthorization.

“That’s why he could rattle off word-for-word what Mitch McConnell said to him,” Beck co-host Pat Gray said. “And that’s why nobody disputed him. Because they know he’s right.”

“Correct,” Beck replied."

California school district lowers the bar for an 'F' to twenty percent

California school district lowers the bar for an 'F' to twenty percent - The College Fix
Cotati-Rohnert Park School District in Sonoma County, California, is courting controversy over the restructuring of its grading scale.
Called the “equal interval scale,” it “departs from the traditional A to F scale in which students receive F’s for scores below 59 percent.”
“Instead, the scale awards F’s only for scores below 20 percent.”
Twenty through 40 percent would be the range of “D” grades, 40-60 percent would “C’s,” and so on. An “A-” would be between an 80 and 85 percent which, for most of academic history, has been a “B.”
Regarding the drastically lowered “F,” Superintendent Robert Haley says that “They’ve [students] still flunked, but they don’t have as much to do mathematically to climb out of the F range.”
“It doesn’t eliminate the F; it doesn’t lower the bar.”
Doesn’t …??
 Uh huh, right."

Scumbag-----Visiting Gawker writer blasts ArtPrize as 'far-right ... joke'

Visiting Gawker writer blasts ArtPrize as 'far-right ... joke' | MLive.com:
"Not even the existence of ArtPrize's $200,000 Juried Grand Prize, awarded to New York City artist Kate Gilmore this year, mollified Moskowitz, who admits to having had three days of "wining and dining and chauffeuring and schmoozing" including meeting with ArtPrize founder Rick DeVos, grandson of Amway Corp. co-founder Rich DeVos.
"The reason for adding the juried prize was to 'create a tension between populism and professionalism,' according to myriad press materials.
Though that may be the 'Midwestern Nice' way of saying the juried prize is the only way to ensure batshit conservative art doesn't overtake ArtPrize each year."
...Moskowitz was accredited as a journalist working for Al Jazeera and The Guardian of London, Gaines said.
"We feel that his objectives were politically based, and we were misinformed," he said.
..."I consider myself a relatively nice guy," Moskowitz says early in the piece before describing the DeVos family as "pretty backward," calling Amway a pyramid scheme, describing its vitamin supplement Nutrilite as "nutritionally questionable," and reciting a list of organizations and causes funded by the DeVos Family, including American Enterprise Institute and Focus on the Family.
"It's not clear whether Rick harbors similar sentiments. A quick check of his Twitter suggests he does," Moskowitz wrote.
Gaines said DeVos would not comment on Moskowitz' article.
Moskowitz also took to Twitter to recount his visit to ArtPrize."

This is FUNNY!!-----“FIRST DEMOCRATIC DEBATE HIGHLIGHTS: 2015” —- A Bad Lip Reading...

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BOMBSHELL: FBI Director Just Turned On Obama In A HUGE WAY! - The Political Insider

BOMBSHELL: FBI Director Just Turned On Obama In A HUGE WAY! - The Political Insider:

"The FBI Director just said something that has Obama furious. Shockingly, he told the University of Chicago Law School that Obama’s early release of drug traffickers program is wrong. He also slammed the racist “Black Lives Matter” movement.

The speech transcript is posted on the FBI’s website. He gives stories from his time shutting down drug operations in Virginia, and how the differences in policing are more about how dangerous a neighborhood is… instead of “police racism.”

Detroit Public Schools: 93% Not Proficient in Reading; 96% Not Proficient in Math

Detroit Public Schools: 93% Not Proficient in Reading; 96% Not Proficient in Math:

Fiscal data for the 2011-2012 school year in the Detroit public schools as published by U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics. (Screen capture)

The $13,330 for “current expenditures” included $515,473,000 for “instructional expenditures,” $133,282,000 for “student and staff support,” $97,800,000 for “administration,” and $147,411,000 for “operations, food service” and other expenses.

The Detroit Public Schools’ Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for the fiscal year that ended on June 30, 2014 says the school district served “an estimated 48,905 students” during that fiscal year. 
“Of the District’s total operating expenditures of approximately $721 million, 48 percent or approximately $346 million, was spent on instruction for the year ended on June 30, 2014,” said the report.

The approximately $721 million in total operating expenditures the school district reported for fiscal 2014 equaled approximately $14,743 for each of the district’s 48,905 students...

Must see!!-----Former news anchor joins 'The O'Reilly Factor' to discuss his new book 'Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath'

'Clock Boy' Ahmed Named One of TIME'S 30 Most Influential Teens of 2015

'Clock Boy' Ahmed Named One of TIME'S 30 Most Influential Teens of 2015:
"“Clock Boy” Ahmed Mohamed landed on TIME Magazine’s 30 Most Influential Teens of 2015. The publication announced this year’s crop of teen wonders with the 14-year-old among sports dynamos, up-and-coming Hollywood stars, kids of the rich and famous, young entrepreneurs, and a Nobel prize winning girls’ education activist who survived being shot by the Taliban.
Mohamed is the Irving, Texas student arrested and suspended from high school on Sept. 14 after bringing a homemade suitcase clock initially seen as a possible hoax bomb.
TIME says they determine their annual lists by considering accolades across numerous fields, global impact through social media and overall ability to drive news.
It appears he made the list for the international noise created by the family claiming Islamophobia and bigotry as behind his highly publicized woes despite “safe school” zero tolerance policies in public schools.
The publication describes Mohamed as making national news by bringing a homemade clock to school that “teachers and authorities mistook said clock for a bomb.”
They write: “But the ninth grader’s arrest, after teachers and authorities mistook said clock for a bomb, kicked off a national debate over racial profiling—and an outpouring of support for Mohamed, who was personally invited to the White House by President Obama (who called his clock “cool”).
In October, he accepted a full scholarship to a prestigious school in Qatar.”
The Texas teen turned Qatari clock kid did, in fact, turn down the esteemed MIT for the Muslim Brotherhood affiliated Qatar Foundation and their Education City.
Although not mentioned in TIME, Mohamed is also known for his Saudi funded Mecca pilgrimage, a visit with genocidal Sudanese Islamic autocrat Bashir, a promo video appearance with Hamas supporter Nihad Awad, also the co-founder of the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR), an organization charged as an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism-financing case in U.S history, the Holy Land Foundation trial..."

Founder Fathers Thoughts on Islam, In Their Own Words: You'd Think They Were Here Today

Founder Fathers Thoughts on Islam, In Their Own Words: You'd Think They Were Here Today:

"Barack Obama keeps insisting that Islam was “woven into the fabric” of the founding of the United States of America.

That would be news to the Founders.

Obama’s claim that Muslims have made significant contributions to the nation is laughable to anyone with even a passing knowledge of American history. In his defense, Obama has proven repeatedly that he is ignorant of history in general and American history in particular."

Agency won’t give GOP internal docs on climate research

Agency won’t give GOP internal docs on climate research | TheHill:
"The federal government’s chief climate research agency is refusing to give House Republicans the detailed information they want on a controversial study on climate change.
...At the center of the controversy is a study that concluded there has not been a 15-year “pause” in global warming. Some NOAA scientists contributed to the report.
Skeptics of climate change, including Smith, have cited the pause to insist that increased greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from burning fossil fuels, are not heating up the globe.
...“It was inconvenient for this administration that climate data has clearly showed no warming for the past two decades,” he said in a statement. “The American people have every right to be suspicious when NOAA alters data to get the politically correct results they want and then refuses to reveal how those decisions were made.”...

History for October 29

History for October 29 - On-This-Day.com
Bill Mauldin 1921, Jon Vickers 1926, Melba Moore 1945 


Richard Dreyfuss 1947, Kate Jackson 1948, Winona Ryder 1971 


1901 - Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President McKinley, was electrocuted. 


1923 - Turkey formally became a republic after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. The first president was Mustafa Kemal, later known as Kemal Ataturk. 


1929 - America's Great Depression began with the crash of the Wall Street stock market. 


1945 - The first ballpoint pens to be made commercially went on sale at Gimbels Department Store in New York at the price of $12.50 each. 


1956 - Israel invaded Egypt's Sinai Peninsula during the Suez Canal Crisis. 


1966 - The National Organization for Women was founded. 


1974 - U.S. President Gerald Ford signed a new law forbidding discrimination in credit applications on the basis of sex or marital status 

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

http://www.libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2015/10/a-socialist-halloween-by-tammy-derouin.html

A Socialist Halloween

By Tammy Derouin

I so enjoy watching a civics lesson take place.  The true and honest questions and answers of children are only topped by the realization that someone is trying to con them.  The first reaction is a combination look.  You have to watch closely because as soon as you see the proverbial light bulb look of understanding hit their face, it is quickly replaced by the deer in the headlight look of surprise and confusion. As the wheels of logic and common sense grind together, the Yosemite Sam reaction takes over; my personal favorite.    

It’s an uphill battle, trying to counter this backward thinking government of ours.  They push their agenda by manufacturing opposite logic to transform our nation. The unions, the school system, entitlement pushers and the low information crowd are the minions who distribute the propaganda of opposite world. 

Even their name, Progressive, is quite the opposite.  Under this administration, forward means backwards.  Insured means uninsured.  A tax means a fine or a fine is a tax depending which way the wind is blowing.  Security means unprotected.  Enemy means friend.  Scandal means fairy tale.  Strong economy means verge of collapse.  Truth means false and false means truth.  Legislature means Executive.  Judicial means Executive.  President means dictator; any questions? 

So begins the tale of A Socialist Halloween... 

UNBELIEVABLE!!!-----Agency won’t give GOP internal docs on climate research

Agency won’t give GOP internal docs on climate research | TheHill:
"The federal government’s chief climate research agency is refusing to give House Republicans the detailed information they want on a controversial study on climate change.
Citing confidentiality concerns and the integrity of the scientific process, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said it won’t give Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) the research documents he subpoenaed.
At the center of the controversy is a study that concluded there has not been a 15-year “pause” in global warming. Some NOAA scientists contributed to the report.
Skeptics of climate change, including Smith, have cited the pause to insist that increased greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from burning fossil fuels, are not heating up the globe...

THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED: Preschool Helps Kids. Sometimes. Briefly.

Instapundit » Blog Archive » THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED: Preschool Helps Kids. Sometimes. Briefly. Everyone loves early-childhood…:
"THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED: Preschool Helps Kids. Sometimes. Briefly.

Everyone loves early-childhood education. It provides free day care, which helps working parents, who vote. Boosters say that it can also reduce inequality, help disadvantaged kids get ahead, and … who knows, probably cure shingles. What’s not to like?

I’m not against early-childhood education. If we had strong evidence that early-childhood education made a big difference in the lives of needy kids, I’d be for it. Even hard-bitten libertarians can acknowledge that children are a special case.

But I’d like better evidence. A lot of the advocacy ends up being based on small studies that showed big results, while larger and better-designed studies are more equivocal. In fact, two recent studies — one from Quebec, and one from Tennessee — suggest that the long-term results might actually be slightly negative.

The goal is a corps of unionized Democrat-voting daycare workers. Whether it helps kids is immaterial."

Days After Announcement There Would be No Charges in IRS Probe, House Committee Moves to Do This | TheBlaze.com

Days After Announcement There Would be No Charges in IRS Probe, House Committee Moves to Do This | TheBlaze.com:

"House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) and 18 members of the committee have introduced a resolution to begin proceedings to impeach IRS commissioner John Koskinen for his suspected role in the alleged targeting of conservative nonprofit groups."

Beijing reacted angrily Tuesday....

The Latest US and World News - USATODAY.com:

TOKYO — Beijing reacted angrily Tuesday to a decision by the U.S. Navy to sail a guided-missile destroyer within 12 miles of artificial islands under construction by China in the South China Sea.

The USS Lassen sailed within the presumed territorial limits around the new islands at Subi and Mischief reefs. Those reefs are among seven oceanic features in the disputed South China Sea where China is dredging sand and building major land-based facilities — including long runways and deep-water ports

New Planned Parenthood video: Doctor wants intact fetal heads for brain harvesting | Washington Examiner

New Planned Parenthood video: Doctor wants intact fetal heads for brain harvesting | Washington Examiner:





'vA new Planned Parenthood video, the 11th in a series of secretly-taped interviews, shows a Texas doctor wishing to conduct an abortion that produces intact fetal heads for brain harvesting.

"I haven't been able to do that yet," said the doctor, Amna Dermish of Planned Parenthood Austin. "This will give me something to strive for."

The video is the latest in the sting produced by the The Center for Medical Progress in the ongoing Planned Parenthood baby parts scandal that has led to the formation of a special investigative committee in Congress because the women's health group receives federal funding.

Iowans: Trump's attack on Carson's faith will fail

Iowans: Trump's attack on Carson's faith will fail:

DES MOINES — Iowa Republicans say Donald Trump's sneak attack on Ben Carson's religion won't work.

"It will fail miserably," said Mike Demastus, a pastor at Fort Des Moines Church of Christ. "For Donald Trump, as a name-only Presbyterian, to be criticizing somebody else for their faith statements is laughable. This is a guy who can't even quote a Bible scripture to someone."

Several influential Christian conservative leaders in Iowa, even those who publicly back GOP candidates other than Carson, came to the defense of the Seventh-day Adventist Church on Monday.

Trump touched off the controversy when he said at a campaign rally in Florida on Saturday: "I love Iowa. And, look, I don't have to say it, I'm Presbyterian. ... Boy, that's down the middle of the road, folks, in all fairness. I mean, Seventh-day Adventist, I don't know about. I just don't know about."

Trump didn't name Carson, then he denied in an interview on ABC's This Week on Sunday that he was trying to plant seeds of doubt about his chief rival, who's now the front-runner in Iowa, polls show. But Republican caucusgoers say they got the message.

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BREAKING: Texas Defies the Feds, Makes Massive Move to DESTROY Illegal "Sanctuary Cities"

BREAKING: Texas Defies the Feds, Makes Massive Move to DESTROY Illegal "Sanctuary Cities":

"Texas has been at the forefront of the court fight against the Obama administration’s attempts to make give illegal aliens citizenship by fiat, now the Lone Star State’s governor is cracking down on cities inside his borders that offer sanctuary to illegals.

In a letter to Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez reported by Breitbart, Texas Gov. Greg Abbot made it clear Texas isn’t putting up with the  kind of “sanctuary city” nonsense other states – notably California – have made the norm when it comes to coddling illegal aliens."

US To Add One Los Angeles Every Three Years If MASS IMMIGRATION CONTINUES

US To Add One Los Angeles Every Three Years If MASS IMMIGRATION CONTINUES - The Gateway Pundit:
"The Hayride reports:

According to a new report by the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, which is headed by Rep. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the US essentially adds the equivalent of Los Angeles every three years or about over 10 million.

The report notes that the net difference of immigrants coming to the country totals 1.24 million people annually. Over the course of 2015 through 2017, though, that number is expected to rise to 3.85 million, which is nearly the population of the city of Los Angeles.

Likewise, between 2018-2020, the Census projects the country to add another 3.80 million immigrants and then in 2021-2023, more than 3.85 million immigrants are expected to enter the country.

To make the situation even more complicated, the report does not even include the children which are born to immigrants while they are here or the costs of those children.

Additionally, the US is about to surpass immigration records, adding 100 million immigrants over the next 50 years. That is the equivalent of approximately 25 Los Angeles’.

Just what this country needs, another Los Angeles."

The math question that has everyone puzzled because 5+5+5 is NOT 15

The math question that has everyone puzzled because 5+5+5 is NOT 15 | Daily Mail Online
Common Core gets a Fail for common sense: Angry parents baffled by third grade math question that claims 5+5+5=15 is NOT correct

• A math quiz has been circulating the internet, showing how one third-grader got the wrong answer for a seemingly easy question
• The question was to use repeated addition to solve 5x3 
• The student wrote 5+5+5=15, but was marked incorrect 
• According to grading standards, the question should have been interpreted as five groups of 3, therefore 3+3+3+3+3=15 
• While many have criticized the grading practice as a result of Common Core, the Common Core does not regulate lesson plans 

We should be ashamed!-----Michigan students score low on state's new M-STEP standardized exam

Michigan students score low on state's new M-STEP standardized exam | MLive.com
"DETROIT, MI -- Results of the state's new student assessment exam leave a lot to be desired, but that was the point. 
The test is new, and the standards are high. (?????)

The result? 
A series of low scores for Michigan students across all grade levels. 
Among the results on the new M-STEP student assessment exam, which replaced the long-used MEAP exam, include:

• 12 percent of Michigan fourth-graders tested proficient in science.

• The highest proficiency rate was in 3rd grade language arts, at just 50 percent.

• In math, proficiency ranged from 28 percent among 11th graders to 49 in 3rd grade.

The Detroit News notes math scores dropped for most students..." 

New Obamacare Appeal to Be Filed With the Supreme Court: ‘So Unconstitutional in So Many Ways’ | TheBlaze.com

New Obamacare Appeal to Be Filed With the Supreme Court: ‘So Unconstitutional in So Many Ways’ | TheBlaze.com:

"The new appeal, filed on behalf of small-business owner Matt Sissel, stems from the Constitution’s Origination Clause, which requires that the House be the first to pass a bill “for raising revenue.”

The foundation said the health overhaul is expected to generate roughly $500 billion in a dozen separate new taxes by 2019, clearly making it a bill to raise revenue. The appeal said the legislation made its debut in the Senate when then-Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., gutted an unrelated bill that already had passed the House and inserted language that became the Affordable Care Act. The original measure was designed to help veterans buy homes."

Graphic About What Islam "Offers" goes Instantly VIRAL (The Scary Truth)

Graphic About What Islam "Offers" goes Instantly VIRAL (The Scary Truth):
"To be clear: Islam offers oppression.
The people who carry out (or support) everything listed in the graphic above are the lowest scum on this planet.
Why Barack Obama refuses to condemn radical Islam for what it true is (while calling us Islamophobic) is beyond comprehension, but it shows how far he’s willing to go in order to put foreigners ahead of the American public.
After all, the leader of ISIS even called Islam the “religion of war.”
And to think, educators across the nation believe that children should be learning about Islam in schools."