Illinois lowers standards making more students seem “proficient”

Illinois students are struggling to meet proficiency standards on state assessments. - Hannah Schmid
Instead of working to improve student learning, the state is lowering standards to hide the crisis.
Most Illinois students are struggling to read or do math at grade level on their end of year state assessments. 

• The State Board of Education’s solution? 
• Lower the standards...

#1 This day 1961-----Wooden Heart - Joe Dowell (a #1 record)

NYC Legionnaires’ outbreak linked to two city-run buildings, including Harlem Hospital

Since the outbreak, seven people have died and 114 people have been diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease, while six people are in the hospital... - PHILIP MARCELO and BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI

• NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City hospital and another city-run building were sources for a deadly outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in Harlem that killed seven people and sickened dozens of others, health officials announced Friday.

The New York City Health Department said bacteria from cooling towers atop Harlem Hospital and a nearby construction site where the city’s public health lab is located matched samples from some of the ill patients...

Rooftop solar has a big future, but solar’s big issue is that it isn’t energy dense.

 

'That is an outright lie!' Chicago pastor rips into Democrats over crime | Blaze Media

'That is an outright lie!' Chicago pastor rips into Democrats over crime | Blaze Media: 

Brooks, who runs a violence-prevention organization called Project H.O.O.D., said the current level of crime completely justifies the federal surge of troops. He pointed to the fact that there have been 254 deaths since the beginning of the year and that 80% of those victims were black males. "For anyone in our community to say that things are getting better and that people are safe, that is an outright lie!" the pastor said.

The Democrat Party summed up nicely!

 

AM Fruitcake

 

History for August 31

History for August 31 - On-This-Day.com

William Saroyan 1908

• 1887 - The kinetoscope was patented by Thomas Edison. The device was used to produce moving pictures.
• 1920 - The first news program to be broadcast on radio was aired. The station was 8MK in Detroit, MI.
• 1920 - John Lloyd Wright was issued a patent for "Toy-Cabin Construction," which are known as Lincoln Logs. (U.S. patent 1,351,086)
• 1935 - The act of exporting U.S. arms to belligerents was prohibited by an act signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• 1964 - California officially became the most populated state in America.
• 1993 - Russia withdrew its last soldiers from Lithuania.

NIH schemes to keep risky gain-of-function research alive despite Trump crackdown * WorldNetDaily * by Emily Kopp, Daily Caller News Foundation

NIH schemes to keep risky gain-of-function research alive despite Trump crackdown * WorldNetDaily * by Emily Kopp, Daily Caller News Foundation: 

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to continue creating novel pandemic viruses in apparent defiance of an executive order signed by President Donald Trump calling for a crackdown on the research, according to three government sources involved with the process, who were granted anonymity to avoid government reprisals.

Biosafety hawks have been duking it out with officials at the NIH, the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security as an interagency group finalizes Trump's policy on dangerous gain-of-function (GOF) research — which makes viruses more deadly in the lab. Per the executive order, the policy on federal GOF research is due Sept. 2. Three intelligence agencies have concluded that a lab accident sparked COVID-19.

The way we were-----Man who assaulted Rosa Parks in 1994 faces charges in similar Grand Rapids

Who Knew 2X4s Caused So Much Legal Trouble?

Read it all!-----A general and an admiral turned down last-minute chances to keep Taliban out of Kabul | Just The News

General Frank McKenzie rejected a proposal from the Taliban to keep the enemy forces out of Kabul, while Rear Admiral Peter Vasely shot down an overture from allied Afghan commanders that may have saved the nation's capital from the utter chaos that ensued - Jerry Dunleavy

• Both decisions are little-known, but had devastating consequences...
• It is not known what would have happened if McKenzie and Vasely had made different decisions, but what is known is the harrowing and deadly scenes in Kabul that followed...

Must read ALL!!---Spare me the crocodile tears at the CDC exits! -----The C.D.C. Isn’t Publishing Large Portions of the Covid Data It Collects

This institution DESTROYED children and RUINED trust in health institutions for a generation.  - Justin Hart@justin_hart

The whole place needs to be gutted!

• When historians look back on the COVID years, they won’t just document a virus. 
• They’ll document the collapse of America’s most trusted health agency into a factory of fear, censorship, and bad science. 

1/The CDC didn’t just miss the mark --> it repeatedly tripped over its own contradictions, buried evidence, and treated the public as an obstacle instead of a partner.

2/ The CDC’s own reports admitted errors, yet they fought to keep the receipts hidden. 

Instead of transparency, the agency slow-walked Freedom of Information Act requests, releasing half-empty inboxes years after the fact... MUCH MORE!!

'I regret being trans': Minneapolis school shooter expressed desire to detransition ahead of attack * WorldNetDaily * by Nicole Silverio, Daily Caller News Foundation

'I regret being trans': Minneapolis school shooter expressed desire to detransition ahead of attack * WorldNetDaily * by Nicole Silverio, Daily Caller News Foundation: 

Trans-identifying mass shooter Robin Westman confessed in a manifesto that he "was tired of being trans" and wished he had "never brainwashed" himself. Westman shared his disturbing manifesto on YouTube before he gunned down the Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and killed two children on Wednesday. He wrote that he only kept his long hair because it would be an "embarrassing defeat" to cut it, according to a translation by the New York Post.

Lawsuit vs. Home Depot For Biometric Checkout Scans

Stop the (MEDIA) Lies - They grabbed me by the hair, hit me in the stomach, causing me to lose my breath.

They dragged me across the floor, lifted me, and threw me against the wall.

Testimony from former hostage Ilana Gritzewsky who just spoke before the UN Security Council.

"The terrorists beat me, humiliated me, touched me all over, threw me on a motorcycle, and took me into Gaza.
On the way to Gaza, when they started to touch me and sexually abuse me, I passed out physically and mentally, I couldn't handle it anymore. I guess my body preferred to shut down. They kept beating me because, for them, I was a prize...

Lunch video-----Doctor testifies on the dangerous side effects of COVID vaccine

Noon-toon

 

UPenn-backed 'Black Doctors Directory' gets reality check after legal challenge | Blaze Media

UPenn-backed 'Black Doctors Directory' gets reality check after legal challenge | Blaze Media: 

According to legal documents, WURD controlled a black doctors' directory with the support of the University of Pennsylvania's Penn Medicine department, along with a group called the Consortium of DEI Health Educators.

The UN was... IS an ally of Hezbollah!

 

More money will fix everything!-----I represent part of Chicago in Congress. Trump wants its residents scared and silent.

We don’t need the president’s troops on our streets. -  Rep. Delia Ramirez (D), representative for Illinois' 3rd Congressional district

• What we need is investment in our neighborhoods, food on our tables, health care for our families and safety, rooted in justice and opportunity, in our communities. 

In fact, thanks to the investment in community intervention initiatives, Chicago’s rate of violent crime has fallen 22% this year to date; (NO, it hasn't) homicides are down more than 33% and shootings are down 38%...

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Incredibly, the government case to overturn an earlier ruling against housing migrants in a hotel rested on explicitly stating that the migrants had more rights than local residents.

 

Europe in the Balance? | RealClearPolitics

Almost weekly in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, and Germany, a sensational assault committed by an illegal migrant -- often enjoying some sort of state support or with prior arrests for the same crime -- surfaces. - Victor Davis Hanson

Until recently, European politicians and the media sought to either ignore such news or accuse those who clamored for tighter borders, more police protection, and stiffer penalties of being "racists" or "xenophobes."
Until recently, that is.

• Mass protests are now common in Britain against the Labour Party's open borders policies and generous welfare entitlements for immigrants who arrive illegally and without authentic "political refugee" status.
• Greek officials, also swamped by illegal immigration, now cite President Donald Trump's secure border policies as new models for their own...

Yet many arrivals seem angrier at their newfound liberal hosts than at the dictatorships they fled back home...

#1 This day 1983-----Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)...