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On the recordFebruary 13, 2024
Mr. Speaker, at a San Francisco Bay Area school, only 16 percent of students were reading at grade level and only 8 percent were proficient at math. The school spent $250,000 in taxpayer money on a group called Woke Kindergarten to help boost test scores for some of the country's lowest performing schools. However, after 2 years with Woke Kindergarten, student scores are worse. Now, only 12 percent are reading at grade level and fewer than 4 percent are proficient in math. There is more. The head of Woke Kindergarten is on record wanting ``a world free of the U.S. empire''; believing space aliens are oppressed; and supporting ``a free Palestine from the river to the sea.'' A teacher who questioned the program has been put on leave. I wish this were made up, but it is real and, sadly, encapsulates so much of what is wrong with our education system. ____________________
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Virginia Foxx
Republican · North Carolina

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