{"id":1709466,"date":"2022-10-24T17:04:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T21:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1709466"},"modified":"2022-10-24T17:04:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T21:04:22","slug":"nyt-warns-gop-could-seize-on-record-drop-in-student-test-scores-during-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyt-warns-gop-could-seize-on-record-drop-in-student-test-scores-during-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT Warns: GOP Could \u2018Seize\u2019 on Record Drop in Student Test Scores During COVID-19 Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnyt-warns-gop-could-seize-on-record-drop-in-student-test-scores-during-covid-19-pandemic%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1709466&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">How dare Republicans use &#8216;devastating&#8217; results as &#8216;political fodder&#8217; to &#8216;relitigate the debate over how long schools should have stayed closed&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 October 24, 2022 4:50 pm  <\/p>\n<p><strong>What happened<\/strong>: The Department of Education on Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/report-math-scores-plummet-in-nearly-every-state-during-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> a significant drop in math and reading scores for U.S. students during the COVID-19 pandemic. The math results were &#8220;the steepest declines ever recorded&#8221; by the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation&#8217;s Report Card.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What they&#8217;re saying<\/strong>: In addition to the obvious harm students suffered\u2014a direct result of pandemic school closures driven by teachers&#8217; unions and Democratic politicians\u2014the <em>New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/24\/us\/math-reading-scores-pandemic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found<\/a> another reason why the shocking test scores are bad for the country: They &#8220;could be seized as political fodder\u2014just before the midterms\u2014to re-litigate the debate over how long schools should have stayed closed, an issue that galvanized many parents and teachers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How dare they!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters<\/strong>: According to the mainstream media, Republican politicians are always nefariously &#8220;seizing&#8221; or &#8220;pouncing&#8221; on news that reflects poorly on Democrats. A normal person might think if anything deserves to be\u00a0&#8220;political fodder&#8221; in the final stretch of a midterm election, it&#8217;s the fact that a generation of American children had their educations severely stunted as a result of the pandemic and policy choices that kept classrooms closed for the better part of two years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who&#8217;s to blame?<\/strong>\u00a0An October 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/study-teachers-unions-associated-with-school-closures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> found that school districts with strong teachers&#8217; unions were more likely to recommend that schools remain closed, even though scientific evidence found that reopening schools was safe and unlikely to result in &#8220;superspreader&#8221; events.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FreeBeacon\/status\/1565421258996604933?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1565421258996604933%7Ctwgr%5E05a3fcbdf6a4201d5d44ea920cdada71e1ea5b98%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Freason.com%2F2022%2F09%2F02%2Fschools-reopening-was-the-work-of-democrats-in-spite-of-republicans-claims-white-house-press-secretary%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blamed<\/a> Donald Trump and other GOP politicians for keeping schools closed. Reopening the schools, she said, &#8220;was the work of Democrats in spite of Republicans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is that true?<\/strong> No, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stillgray\/status\/1565436966153228288?s=20&#038;t=pRZe4_DKvhLbxis0bNOahA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it&#8217;s not<\/a>. Republicans who called for schools to reopen in 2020 were repeatedly denounced (without evidence) by Democratic-backed union activists for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2020\/08\/why-new-york-teachers-might-have-to-strike\/615583\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">endangering<\/a> the lives of teachers and students. Some schools in heavily Democratic districts remained <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/01\/25\/fairfax-county-should-open-schools-or-stop-vaccinating-teachers\/\">closed<\/a> until early 2021 even after teachers were given priority access to the vaccine.\u00a0As recently as January 2022, teachers in Chicago and elsewhere <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/chicago-teachers-prepare-to-strike-over-return-to-classroom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">went on strike<\/a> after school districts voted to reopen schools.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do Republicans want? <\/strong>More options for parents. Republican Glenn Youngkin defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe in the 2021 Virginia gubernatorial election by vowing to <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/columns\/the-politics-of-parental-revolt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">keep schools<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happened: The Department of Education on Monday reported a significant drop in math and reading scores for U.S. students during the COVID-19 pandemic. The math results were &#8220;the steepest declines ever recorded&#8221; by the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation&#8217;s Report Card.<br \/>\nThe post NYT Warns: GOP Could \u2018Seize\u2019 on Record Drop in Student Test Scores During COVID-19 Pandemic appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":1709469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1709466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1709466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1709469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1709466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1709466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1709466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}