{"id":1718612,"date":"2022-10-31T14:03:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T18:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1718612"},"modified":"2022-10-31T14:03:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T18:03:42","slug":"wsj-editorial-board-blasts-whitmer-on-education-few-did-more-to-unlevel-it-than-she-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wsj-editorial-board-blasts-whitmer-on-education-few-did-more-to-unlevel-it-than-she-did\/","title":{"rendered":"WSJ Editorial Board Blasts Whitmer On Education: \u2018Few Did More To Unlevel It Than She Did\u2019"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fwsj-editorial-board-blasts-whitmer-on-education-few-did-more-to-unlevel-it-than-she-did%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=1718612&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>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/wall-street-journal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> pulled no punches in a Sunday editorial on Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/running-on-their-record-of-lockdowns-gretchen-whitmer-dragged-for-campaign-event-ft-randi-weingarten\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gretchen Whitmer<\/a> (D-MI).<\/p>\n<p>In a piece headlined \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/michigans-education-failure-gretchen-whitmer-tudor-dixon-school-lockdowns-pandemic-learning-loss-11666987326\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michigan\u2019s Education Failure<\/a>,\u201d the newspaper\u2019s editorial board criticized Whitmer as \u201cone of the country\u2019s most aggressive pandemic lockdown enforcers\u201d whose policies negatively affected the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/tudor-dixon-calls-for-michigan-superintendents-resignation-over-states-sickening-education-training-videos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">educational<\/a> outcomes for Michigan\u2019s children, especially in minority communities. The article focused on the governor\u2019s highly criticized claim about school closures in her most recent gubernatorial debate with Republican challenger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/dixon-whitmer-in-statistical-tie-new-poll-finds-michigan-race-going-down-to-the-wire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tudor Dixon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMs. Whitmer says children were out of classrooms only three months, but she may be suffering from her own math deficit. Many of the districts that stayed closed the longest, including Ann Arbor, Lansing, Kalamazoo and Detroit, have large minority populations,\u201d the Journal wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Whitmer <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/dissecting-gretchen-whitmers-false-claim-that-michigan-students-were-only-out-of-classrooms-for-three-months\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ordered<\/a> or encouraged schools to close for weeks at a time for as long as a year after the initial lockdown in March 2020. On November 15, 2020, the governor\u2019s health department suspended in-person learning for three weeks at Michigan colleges and high schools. Then in April 2021, Whitmer encouraged schools to pause in-person learning for two more weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany states closed schools out of caution at the beginning of the pandemic and test scores fell nationwide,\u201d the Journal added. \u201cBut Michigan schools didn\u2019t reopen for longer than many places, and Gov. Whitmer opposed a plan that would have made it a priority to open schools for K-5 students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a debate last week, Whitmer attempted to deflect blame away from her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/whitmer-says-small-businesses-have-her-support-these-small-business-owners-havent-forgotten-her-shutdowns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">COVID policies<\/a>\u2019 effect on education, arguing that she left the decision up to school districts after the first shutdown. Dixon shot back, saying the governor was attempting to gaslight Michigan parents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is shocking to me that she thinks schools were only closed for three months, or maybe she thinks she can convince you that schools were only closed for three months, but you know better because your students are the ones that are desperately behind,\u201d Dixon said.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TudorDixon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TudorDixon<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019m pretty sure I just heard an audible gasp around town when Gretchen Whitmer said that kids were out of school for three months. Perhaps she wasn&#8217;t paying attention\u2026But you know better because your students are the ones that are desperately behind.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/d1uD6zGHCn\">pic.twitter.com\/d1uD6zGHCn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1585291029930024962?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The closures had a clear negative impact on Michigan students, especially those in minority communities, as the gap between white and black students\u2019 4th-grade math proficiency widened from 30 to 35 points. Adding to the concern, the Journal noted that black 4th graders\u2019 reading scores in the state dropped 11 points from 2019, down to 188, far behind the national average of 217.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHybrid learning was brutal on young children, who struggled to maintain the attention required to absorb information while staring at a screen for hours,\u201d the Journal\u2019s editorial board concluded. \u201cMs. Whitmer is right that education \u2018levels the playing field,\u2019 but few did more to unlevel it than she did.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal pulled no punches in a Sunday editorial on Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI). In a piece headlined \u201cMichigan\u2019s Education Failure,\u201d the newspaper\u2019s editorial board criticized Whitmer as \u201cone of the country\u2019s most aggressive pandemic lockdown enforcers\u201d whose policies negatively affected the educational outcomes for Michigan\u2019s children, especially in minority communities. 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