Do We Need A New End of Year Test: Show Notes, 10/12/2022
A new literacy program and new polling.
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The New Summer Literacy Program In Louisiana
The Louisiana Department of Education will be adopting a new summer literacy program focused on making sure third and fourth graders are on their proper reading level, the LDOE announced today. The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education voted to approve the new program, which will take effect this school year.
Students in the third and fourth grades will be screened at the end of the year to make sure they are on the proper reading level. If they are not, they will be offered a 30-hour summer literacy program to get them back on level. If they/their families reject that idea, they could be held back or have to come up with some other means of getting on level.
Good Polling For Kennedy
Public Policy Polling, a progressive polling firm, is notorious for producing results favorable to Democrats. So, when the best they can do is John Kennedy polling at 53 percent, you know he’s cruising to re-election without any possibility of a runoff. The more interesting result from the poll is Luke Mixon has 16 percent support from those polled while Gary Chambers, who is probably better-known thanks to his viral ad campaign, is just at 8 percent. Interesting developments in state politics.
Read More: Sen. John Kennedy Gets Good News In Louisiana’s First Major Senate Poll
And This: Even A Democrat Pollster Can’t Make A Runoff For Kennedy
Don’t You Question Fetterman’s Mental Fitness
It’s a very old song and dance. Trump struggles with a ramp and butt-tweets “covfefe” and there are days-long news cycles. But an NBC News reporter points out that John Fetterman, a recent stroke victim running for Senate, is having cognition issues and the left loses its mind. Caleb Howe at Mediaite breaks it down.
“In small talk before the interview without captioning, it wasn’t clear he was understanding our conversation.” That’s the line that launched a thousand meltdowns.
Journalist Kara Swisher, famed podcaster and the co-founder of Recode, was prominently featured in the blue check backlash against the neutral observation by Burns, and her tweets became a big part of the story overnight, including some she deleted.
Swisher’s reactions were prime examples of the whole genre of outrage, and several of them were piled onto by other members of the media and prominent Democrats.
If you’re running for office in one of the world’s most deliberative bodies, your mental fitness, ability to understand and respond to questions, and your overall cognitive abilities are vital to the task. It’s a fair question, and the observation from the NBC reporter was perfectly fair. But, God forbid you give ammo to Fetterman’s political enemies.
Headlines Of The Day
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Oregon Governor Remains A Toss-Up (POLITICO)
Ex-Bill Clinton Strategist Paul Begala Decries 'Pain-In-The-Ass White Liberals' (Huffington Post)
Durham Witness Drops Trial Bombshell: FBI Offered Steele $1M to Prove Dossier Claims (National Review)
Biden acknowledges a ‘slight recession’ is possible, even if he doesn’t think it’ll happen (CNN)