Category Archives: Video

Chapel Hill EWA Seminar Topic: Common Core

Posted on January 20, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

North Carolina’s newest ‘Education Non-Profit’ provided some video of the recent EWA Seminar held in Chapel Hill on January 12th. EWA stands for Education Writers Association.

EWA has received multiple Gates Foundation grants. The most recent is for over $1.4 million and is centered on ‘communications’.

Today I look at the first of the two videos, “Taking Political Stock of the Common Core”…

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Backpack Funding: Make the Money Follow The Student

Posted on January 7, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

The amount of money that has been thrown at education from various sources over the last 50 years is staggering. One thing has been learned from said money throwing is that it isn’t working.

If you haven’t read The K- 12 Implosion yet, you should.

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I just finished looking at the 2014 grants for ‘College Ready’ on the Gates Foundation site. This lesson of money throwing at education is something Bill Gates apparently hasn’t learned. The 2014 ‘College Ready’ grants totaled over $92 million.

Over at Reason.com, I spotted this video on Backpack funding for education. This is a very different approach to funding for education.

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The Last #NCSPIN of 2014

Posted on December 27, 2014 by A.P. Dillon

NCSPIN Upside DownThe video of the last NC Spin of the year has been posted.

Part truthiness and part chuckle-worthy.

Don’t be drinking anything when you watch Fitzsimon desperately try to salvage the Moral Monday voter theme. http://t.co/TwUtoYLGIe #ncpol

— LL1885 – A.P. Dillon (@LadyLiberty1885) December 27, 2014

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At Wake School Board Meeting, Sutton Compares Himself To Eric Garner (Video)

Posted on December 17, 2014 by A.P. Dillon

Never a shortage of drama with the Wake County School Board.

At the most recent meeting, board member Keith Sutton wore a t-shirt that said “#BlackLivesMatter” on it and launched into a long speech about how he was almost detained once at a past school board meeting so he knows what people like Eric Garner have gone through or something. No, not kidding.

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Fitzsimon Beclowns Himself On #NCSPIN Over #APUSH

Posted on December 16, 2014 by A.P. Dillon

How many false statements, tea party smears and general bile can one fit into 1 minute and 23 seconds?

Watch @Fitzsimon make an ass of himself on #APUSH with a fountain of smears and rhetoric. http://t.co/SKgFYBQJU2 #nced #ncpol

— LL1885 – A.P. Dillon (@LadyLiberty1885) December 16, 2014

It’s clear from the moment he opens his mouth, Fitzsimon knows NOTHING about APUSH. Reminds me of the type of crap News and Observer put out on APUSH. Alternatively, Fitzsimon does know APUSH is seeing a radical, leftist swing which is why he politicized criticism of it to death in less than a minute.

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The Wunderlich Family’s Homeschool Fight (Video)

Posted on December 13, 2014 by A.P. Dillon

This past November, Germany’s Supreme Court has created criminal charges and penalties for parents who do not send their child to public school. In the case of the Wunderlich’s, the government seized not only their bank account, but their children.

Those of you who followed my updates on the Romeike family and their quest for asylum in the United States due to homeschool persecution in Germany, you need to watch this video from the Homeschool League Defense Association (HSLDA) on the Wunderlich’s. Read their story here.

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