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0 of 25 hedged
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As the California Post reported: Julie Van Winkle, UTLA AFT vice president and AFT 1021 president, was caught on camera addressing the Nov. 3 election for state schools chief.
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Winkle → report → chief
She urged supporters to help turn out votes for the UTLA-endorsed longtime union lackey, Richard Barrera.
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She → urge → lackey
And she called his opponent, Sonja Shaw, a “real threat” and “obviously a huge problem for us.”
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she → call → us
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Sign → sign → California
That’s the takeaway for voters in this race: Shaw won’t take direction from the union bosses.
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Shaw → ’ → bosses
The record cries out for reform — not more of the same failure.
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record → cry → failure
It’s true that Shaw, who’s shown guts standing up for girls and parents as president of the Chino Valley Unified school board, would be a disruptor by her presence alone.
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who → ’ → presence
But only because her common-sense platform shows how far the state’s schools have run off the rails.
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schools → show → rails
Shaw stands for restoring academic rigor.
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Shaw → stand → rigor
(Why do schools exist again?)
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schools → exist → ?
She stands for protecting parents’ right to know what’s happening with their kids in school.
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what → stand → school
(Recall how educators for years blamed poor learning on uninvolved parents; now that schools are teaching gender ideology, parents are supposed to butt out.
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parents → recall → ideology
And she stands for protecting girls, their sports and their locker rooms from biological boys (a universal no-brainer not so long ago).
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she → stand → brainer
Shaw would, in effect, push to replace the adults’ ideological indulgences with kid-centered rigor in the basics: reading, writing and math.
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Shaw → push → basics
The union’s afraid she’s onto something.
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she → ’ → something
While adults are busy authorizing strikes — as LA teachers did this year — and demanding ever-more unaffordable largesse from taxpayers, the kids are busy … not learning enough.
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kids → authorize → enough
In math, a pitiful 37% of LAUSD pupils showed proficiency.
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% → show → proficiency
Sixty-three percent of LAUSD students can’t meet math standards, and Sonja Shaw’s the threat?
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Shaw → meet → standards
Newsom recognized as much when he saw the results of the June primary: Shaw was the top vote-getter in the race for schools chief.
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Shaw → recognize → chief
So the governor and Dem legislators brazenly stripped power and oversight authority from the office of the state superintendent of schools.
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governor → strip → schools
(That’s Dem politics for you: Faced with losing? Change the rules.)
What does it say that California’s schools chief will no longer run the Department of Education, yet a Shaw win would still be “a huge problem” for UTLA?
Van Winkle works in a failing school district.
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Winkle → ’ → district
Yet she doesn’t want change or improvement or fresh ideas.
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she → want → change
She wants obedience.
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She → want → obedience
What’s striking is not that the union head thinks this way.
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head → strike → ?
It’s that she said it while being recorded.
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she → ’ → it
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