It’s another “Super Tuesday” or for Slow Joe “Super Thursday/June”
and as they did with Slow Joe Biden, the critics are calling Bernie’s campaign
dead in the water. I suspect that the Demo-Dope swells have locked in the Slowest
One’s victory tonight. So two things
will happen: One, cheers at Bernie’s
demise; Two, sudden buyer’s remorse at having to settle on the establishment
pick Slow gaffe a second Joe Biden who is as likely as not to show up at his victory
speech in a silver sequined unitard licking his wife’s neck and singing "We are the Champions."
Immediate calls for Bernie to drop out will ensue and
Slow Joe will go into hiding with his worthless drug addicted son, Hunter. Dopes don’t really care if Bernie limps along.
They just don’t want the Slow One to
have to be on stage for over an hour going toe to toe with Bernie in the next
debate. So pressure will be intense for
Bernie drop out and clear the field so the Slowest One can nap most of the day
until the general election campaign begins.
Sadly for Dopes, Bernie will probably refuse to play
nice with establishment Dopes, unless they buy him another “summer camp,” an
airplane and a nice boat. If Bloomberg
throws enough money at Bernie he will grow a conscience, become a Party man and
give a halfhearted endorsement to Slowest of all Joes. He’ll suspend his campaign
with a promise to the Bernie Bros that he’ll be prepared to jump back in at moment’s
notice when Biden insists he wrote the legislation for colonizing Mars.
For the rest of us with common sense, Biden is about
as big a godless commie bastard as Bernie. The only difference or at least the
major difference is that MSM insist on calling the Slow One a “moderate.” He’s not.
He’s a fool tax and spend to buy votes with taxpayer money progressive
POS only slightly less crazy than Bernie.
Today’s JG rant
I’ll stipulate that certain unscrupulous miscreant online charter school operators gamed the system and made off with tens of millions in state taxpayer funds. The remedy for that theft, it seems to me, is legal. The perpetrators of that fraud should be jailed, fined or both. Any public official that took money from the perpetrators of the fraud should return the money immediately.
I’ll stipulate that certain unscrupulous miscreant online charter school operators gamed the system and made off with tens of millions in state taxpayer funds. The remedy for that theft, it seems to me, is legal. The perpetrators of that fraud should be jailed, fined or both. Any public official that took money from the perpetrators of the fraud should return the money immediately.
Now to be fair, something that never enters into the
equation at the JG editorial board, calculate the hundreds of millions of taxpayer
dollars failed public schools in Indiana have defrauded taxpayers out of over
the last few decades. If trying to
expose the statewide fraud in public education is deemed too difficult, confine
your investigation to FWCS. If that’s
too difficult, confine your investigation to North Side, South Side, Wayne and
Northrop high schools.
How many of millions of dollars have been wasted in
just those four failed public schools over decades of decline? How many students did they fail – graduated with
worthless diplomas? Who is going to be
held accountable for the failure in public education? Red for Ed?
The teacher’s union? Public
school administrators? Are teachers and
administrators going to be jailed and/or fined for failure? Is there ever going to be any accountability?
Tuesday, March 10, 2020 1:00 am
Editorial
Unaccountable
Amid scandal, lawmakers still favor
charter schools
The biggest
public spending scandal in the state's history came to light in
a State Board of Accounts report halfway through the current legislative
session. As much as $85 million was misspent by online charter school
operators funneling taxpayer funds to connected companies, including $65
million collected for students who were not enrolled in the schools. The
investigation has been turned over to federal authorities.
If you
expected lawmakers would scramble to tighten spending rules and
oversight of your tax dollars in the wake of this mess – think again. The
Republican supermajority not only rejected attempts to hold virtual charter
schools more accountable, it's now ramming through a
last-minute measure to allow charter schools a cut of property
taxes from referendums conducted by traditional public schools. Gov. Eric
Holcomb, through a tie-breaking vote cast by his lieutenant
governor, chose to stand with charter schools and against 291 public
school districts.
With evidence of
millions in misspending, why are lawmakers and the governor intent on
steering public funds to private interests? Where are the fiscal conservatives
fighting to protect tax dollars? Where are the calls for greater financial
accountability?
Rep. Ed DeLaney,
D-Indianapolis, made multiple attempts to strengthen oversight of charter
schools this session. He offered five amendments to Senate Bill
455 addressing problems brought to light by the virtual schools scam, but
the GOP-controlled House Education Committee chose to kill the Republican-authored
bill rather than strengthen accountability over their freewheeling school
choice program.
“Loose oversight and
lack of regulation from this legislative body led Indiana taxpayers to be
defrauded of nearly $65 million from virtual charter schools, while delivering
little to no satisfactory educational results,” De-Laney said last week. “The
Republican supermajority has failed teachers, parents, school districts,
taxpayers and, most importantly, students by refusing to act on any legislative
matters from House Democrats that would hold virtual charter schools
accountable.”
DeLaney's efforts to
address fraud in virtual charter schools began well before the State Board
of Accounts report was released last month. In August, he called on House Speaker
Brian Bosma and members of the Legislative Council to direct the Interim
Study Committee on Education to look into issues involving online charters.
They declined to do so.
“The suggestion from
House Republicans that it is not the Indiana General Assembly's responsibility
to address this issue by legislative investigation shows a high level of
irresponsibility and apathy,” DeLaney said last month. “We just threw taxpayer
dollars in the middle of the street and let the bad guys pick it up.”
Demanding the same
level of financial accountability for charter schools – both virtual and
bricks-and-mortar schools – seems like a no-brainer for any lawmaker who
claims the title of fiscal conservative. But the push is to expose more
tax dollars to abuse. A measure inserted in House Bill 1065 last week –
after the opportunity for public testimony was past – allows charter
schools to collect a share of property tax referendum money when school
districts ask local property taxpayers to raise taxes for construction, operating
or security expenses. The provision is worded as “may” in the current language,
but legislative observers know how easily the wording can be changed to
“shall” in subsequent sessions.
Sixteen Republican
senators voted no on the referendum measure last week. Northeast Indiana
lawmakers – Sens. Liz Brown, Justin Busch, Travis Holdman, Dennis Kruse
and Andy Zay – all voted yes, however. Holdman, an attorney, was a paid
consultant to the virtual schools responsible for $85 million in misspent funds.
In Monday's conference
committee session to resolve differences between House and Senate versions of
the bill, the charter referendum language was maintained.
Lawmakers have one
more chance to protect local tax dollars. Will they choose privatization or
fiscal accountability?
1 comment:
Let's put body cams on teachers for review by parents and school admin. Do it for both public and private schools. Obama demanded it of cops. Big success. A Cambridge study show huge drop in lawsuits against cops and when the footage is used and it is used 93 percent of the time by prosecutors. If it holds cops accountable then it could do the same for teachers.
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