{"id":1987466,"date":"2023-08-01T03:46:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T07:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/santa-barbara-school-board-protects-lefty-activists-grift-as-student-scores-keep-sliding\/"},"modified":"2023-08-01T03:47:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T07:47:59","slug":"santa-barbara-school-board-protects-lefty-activists-grift-as-student-scores-keep-sliding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/santa-barbara-school-board-protects-lefty-activists-grift-as-student-scores-keep-sliding\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Barbara School Board shields left-wing activists&#8217; scams while student performance declines."},"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\">24<\/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%2Fsanta-barbara-school-board-protects-lefty-activists-grift-as-student-scores-keep-sliding%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=1987466&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--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<h2>The Broken State\u200c of American\u2062 Education<\/h2>\n<p><em>The following includes an edited excerpt from the author\u2019s \u200bnew book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/School-Woke-Critical-Infiltrated-American\/dp\/1546003657\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">School \u2063of Woke: \u2064How Critical Race Theory Infiltrated American Schools and Why We Must Reclaim Them<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As the new school year approaches, it&#8217;s disheartening \u2062to see \u2062that America&#8217;s student achievement is\u200b at an all-time low. The\u200c impact of \u2064Covid lockdowns has erased years of\u200d progress in math and reading, and the 2022-2023\u200c school year has only brought further declines.\u2062 The most affected\u200b are low-income minority communities, leaving educators and \u200cadministrators stunned by the \u2063extent of the \u2062education crisis.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The\u200c truth\u200b is that even \u200cbefore\u2064 the pandemic, America\u2019s schools were asleep at the wheel. School boards designed to improve student outcomes \u200bhave become doormats for\u200b what I term\u2064 the \u201ceducation-industrial\u2062 complex,\u201d which describes the sea of activist nonprofits, businesses, and bureaucrats who use our massive pile of \u2063education\u200c funding to serve \u2064ideological agendas and their own ends.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In\u200d my new book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hachettebookgroup.com\/titles\/kenny-xu\/school-of-woke\/9781546003670\/?lens=center-street\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>School\u200c of Woke<\/em><\/a>, I uncover one of the darkest\u200d examples of \u200cthis \u200dcorruption in Santa\u200b Barbara, California. Jennifer Freed, a sex-ed teacher and founder of \u2064the nonprofit \u200d&#8221;AHA!,&#8221; \u2062exploited her position to push \u200bcritical \u2062race theory and\u2062 queer\u2064 theory onto students. Under \u200bthe \u2062guise of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-diego-plan-moves-illegal-immigrants-to-the-front-of-the-line-for-in-person-education\/\" title=\"San Diego Plan Moves Illegal Immigrants To The Front Of The Line For In-Person Education\">social-emotional learning<\/a>,&#8221; \u200dFreed engaged\u2064 in inappropriate discussions about\u2064 sex with children and \u2063invited\u2064 adults to do the\u2064 same.<\/p>\n<p>AHA!&#8217;s contracts with \u200dthe Santa\u2064 Barbara Unified School District were highly\u2064 lucrative, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maryland-school-district-announces-policy-to-push-anti-racist-thinking-in-preschool-redefine-discrimination-and-racism\/\" title=\"Maryland School District Announces Policy to Push \u2018Anti-Racist Thinking\u2019 In Preschool, Redefine \u2018Discrimination\u2019 and \u2018Racism\u2019\">school board meeting<\/a> on\u2062 June\u2063 11, 2019, revealed \u200dthe extent of their negligence. Despite clear evidence of\u200b AHA!&#8217;s ineffectiveness, Assistant\u200c Superintendent Frann Wageneck struggled to admit\u2062 the truth, while board\u200b member Laura Capps prioritized \u200bprivate funding over student well-being.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What people were witnessing in\u200b that room on that day was a \u2063rare \u2062instance of a school board persuading itself out of the right decision\u200c in real time, in public, for all to see. \u200cAnd the\u2063 results were evidence of that weakness.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This disturbing case highlights the presence of predatory \u2063outside nonprofit organizations in public schools. These organizations, fueled by taxpayer money, \u2062often <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/santa-barbara-school-board-protects-lefty-activists-grift-as-student-scores-keep-sliding\/\" title=\"Santa Barbara School Board shields left-wing activists' scams while student performance declines.\">receive \u2063additional\u200d private \u2062donations<\/a>\u2064 to continue their harmful practices. The Santa Barbara school district&#8217;s willingness to overlook AHA!&#8217;s \u200dfailures and continue funding them is a clear example \u2062of the corruption within the\u200c education system.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to \u200cacknowledge the damage caused by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">critical race theory<\/a> and queer\u200b theory vultures \u2063who prioritize their own\u200d agendas over the education\u200c of our\u2062 children. We must reclaim \u200bour schools and ensure\u2062 that they prioritize the \u200bwell-being\u200d and academic\u2063 success of\u2063 every student.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>author explores how Critical Race Theory has infiltrated American schools and argues for the need to reclaim them. With the pandemic exacerbating educational setbacks, the urgency to address the declining student achievement in math and reading becomes evident. The author&#8217;s book sheds light on this issue and emphasizes the importance of taking action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":356,"featured_media":1987467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1987466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"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\/1987466","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\/356"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1987466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1987467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1987466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1987466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1987466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}