CA WILL SOON BE THE POVERTY STATE WITH THE LARGEST NUMBER OF ILLEGALS, LARGEST NUMBER OF HOMELESS LEGALS AND THE GREATEST MEXICAN WELFARE STATE ON EARTH! Not hard to do the math on that one!
California Drowning
Radicals take the formerly Golden State to new lows.
California has long been known for its sun, surf, and mountains, not to mention its wine, women, and song. But of late, it has been the go-to state for bad news and is showing no sign of turning things around. At this time, we have the country’s highest gas prices, the highest number of welfare recipients (more than in Texas and New York combined), and a Sacramento-created energy shortage. Due to lax policies, crime is out of control. In 2021, the two cities in the country that were most affected by retail theft were Los Angeles and San Francisco. Also, violent crime is up 13% in the state since 2019. This is not a national phenomenon. In Florida, for example, it’s down 31.5%.
Then we have the schools. In California, the most recent Smarter Balanced test scores released in late October indicate that just 46.7% of students are meeting literacy standards, and a meager 34.6% are proficient in math. This standardized test is given to all students in grades 3–8 and grade 11. Also, the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) shows that 30% of the state’s 8th-graders are proficient in reading and 23% are proficient in math.
Despite the abysmal test results on the Smarter Balanced test, the state’s Department of Education asserts that the 2022–23 statewide assessment shows student progress. While the proportion of students who met or exceeded grade-level standards on the state math test did rise slightly from 33.4% in 2021-22 to 34.6% in 2022-23, the fact remains that about two-thirds of California students are below grade level.
So what does the state plan to do about the sorry education results? As a way to increase proficiency in math, the state solons have cooked up a new framework that contends mathematics should be used to “both understand and impact the world.” It argues that math teachers should hold the political position that “mathematics plays a role in the power structures and privileges that exist within our society and can support action and positive change.”
Additionally, tracking students by ability, which has worked well for years, is out. Schools are now encouraged, but thankfully not required, to delay Algebra I until ninth grade – meaning that students would be unable to take Calculus as seniors without doubling up on math classes or taking extra classes during the summer.
Brian Conrad, a Stanford University professor taking issue with the new math framework, explains that the push for equity could backfire. “The experience of San Francisco, for example, shows that when you block eighth-grade Algebra one, which was done in the effort to help to improve the demographics and the high school success rates, in fact, it was a complete failure.”
Should you suffer from gender dysphoria – which the schools have done a masterful job of promulgating – Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bunch of bills that will ensure your distressed state will be honored. AB 5, the “Safe and Supportive Schools Act,” requires the implementation of new “LGBTQ cultural competency training” for teachers and school staff in California.
On a similar note, AB 223, the “Transgender Youth Privacy Act,” requires courts to seal any petition by minors to legally change their gender or sex identification in order to protect their privacy. Parent authorization is not needed to change the vital records of a minor.
In addition to the state screwing up kids, California cities have been stepping up and doing their share.
Los Angeles, where proficiency rates are 41.2% in English and 30.5% in math, devoted an entire week in October to celebrate “National Coming Out Day.” A “Week of Action Toolkit – Elementary,” sent from the Los Angeles Unified School District’s Board of Education, outlines suggested lesson plans for elementary students around LGBTQ+ topics. It’s important to note that every second spent on this type of sexual engineering tripe is time when students could be learning their ABCs and 123s, which L.A. students desperately need.
Trying to keep up with L.A.’s race to the bottom, an Oakland elementary school hosted an official school event — a “BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) Playdate” on August 26. The racially segregated event was purportedly done to “build and promote positive affinity spaces for students and families of color.” But, looking at the big picture, the kids from the so-called Bright Side of the Bay are even worse off than those in L.A. In Oakland, 67% of students don’t meet the standards in reading, and 75% are below grade level in math.
Needless to say, the teachers unions have been no help in improving the academic lives of students. The Oakland Education Association, when it isn’t consumed with protecting incompetent teachers, goes far-left political. The union released a statement in late October condemning the “75 year long illegal military occupation of Palestine” and accusing the Israeli government of creating an “apartheid state” and using “genocidal rhetoric and policies” against Palestinians.
In Fresno, recent contract negotiations saw the teachers union demand that high school parking lots be opened as campsites for homeless families. The union acknowledges the move would require “paid security” at a cost of at least $500,000, one of many expensive proposals union president Manuel Bonilla is pursuing in an attempt to address what he calls “societal things.” To be sure, the union is not interested in any “educational things.”
While the “lack of education funding” is always said to be the problem with illiterate and innumerate students, the Public Policy Institute of California reports that school spending per pupil is now roughly 65 percent higher than a decade ago in the Golden State. In 2021, the state allotted $22,684 per student compared to $14,245 in 2012–13. This amount doesn’t include federal monies, which brings the total to almost $24,000. So, a class of 25 students costs the taxpayers about $600,000. The only thing all that cash will improve is teachers’ salaries, as their unions have more fodder when asking for a raise when contract time rolls around.
In an attempt to get higher quality teachers, the state credentialing commission is talking about revamping the ridiculously easy California Basic Education Skills Test (CBEST). But will the test become more rigorous?
Doubtfully. There is no indication that the state will go in that direction. In an equity-driven statement, John Affeldt, managing attorney at Public Advocates proclaimed, “CBEST is a barrier for educators of color,” and thinks the test should be eliminated. Christopher Davis, a member of the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, agrees, asserting that standardized testing causes “disproportionate harm to people of color.”
There is some good news, however. Homeschooling in California has increased by 78% between 2017 and 2022, according to a recent analysis from The Washington Post. Also, the California Teachers Association is losing members. Mike Antonucci writes that internal union documents reveal that “in 2019 there were only 18,000 local public education employees who were eligible for CTA membership but did not join. As of the end of September 2023, the number of non-members had ballooned to almost 36,000.”
That’s it. Pretty thin gruel on the plus side. In the 60 years since the iconic song “California Dreaming” was written, the state has turned into a nightmare. If you live in another state, a general rule of thumb should be, if action is needed, do the opposite of whatever California is doing.
Larry Sand, a former classroom teacher, is the president of the non-profit California Teachers Empowerment Network – a non-partisan, non-political group dedicated to providing teachers and the general public with reliable and balanced information about professional affiliations and positions on educational issues.
Visiting Czech Film Crew Can’t Report that San Fran Is Clean and Safe – Because Their Camera Equipment Is Stolen
Democrat San Francisco Mayor London Breed’s effort to dupe foreign media into thinking the city isn’t a feces-strewn, crime-ridden, homeless encampment hellhole was exposed Sunday when a Czech film crew was robbed of its camera equipment.
The camera crew was also robbed of the footage it took, depriving it of the ability to portray San Francisco to their viewers back home as a visitors’ paradise.
Mayor Breed and fellow Democrat California Governor Gavin Newsom had been boasting of how they had quickly cleaned up the city ahead of the arrival of international journalists, delegates and world leaders, such Communist China’s President Xi Jinping, for the APEC event.
“Municipal workers have been power-washing sidewalks, moving homeless people, and sprucing up buildings in its downtown core, all in hopes that visitors will see a positive side of the city,” Fortune reports.
But, that’s not reality for those who live and work in San Francisco – or even for local television crews, who have resorted to traveling with armed guards.
Unfortunately, the Czech film crew must not have been aware of the local custom, so they didn’t employ a security detail while visiting San Francisco.
Thus, the robbery of a foreign film crew appears to have pulled back the curtain, exposing the Potemkin Village that Breed and Newsom had created to deceive media from other countries.
"We don’t want anyone in our city to be a victim of any crime, whether they are a visitor or a resident," Mayor Breed’s Communications Director Jeff Creta declared, in a statement responding to the incident.
"Our police department is actively investigating this case, and we know that when an arrest is made, our district attorney has taken a strong position of aggressively prosecuting crimes like these," Creta promised.
Creta’s “like these” qualifier is important.
Ironically, there actually is a chance that, if caught, the thieves will be aggressively prosecuted – because the $18,000 value of the equipment and footage stolen exceeds San Francisco’s $950 threshold for legitimate prosecution.
As NBC Bay Area explains, shoplifting has surged since a 2021 law basically decriminalized retail theft:
“Under current state law, shoplifting merchandise valued under $950 is considered a misdemeanor and often not investigated.”
London Breed: ‘Things Aren’t as Bad’ in San Francisco as Viral Videos Show
San Francisco Mayor London Breed (D) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that viral videos showing crime and homelessness in the streets of San Francisco were not accurate.
Anchor Martha Raddatz said, “I know it annoys you when people look at the city and say it’s either dangerous or crime-ridden or drugs are a huge problem, but you’ve got your own citizens saying the same thing. I think about 17% think the city’s on the right track.”
Breed said, “Well, San Francisco is doing a lot to help combat some of the challenges that we face. We are a major city. During the COVID pandemic, as you see, San Francisco shut down first, and we got a lot of attention. From a numbers perspective, when you look at homelessness in San Francisco, we have, since 2018, helped over 10,000 people exit homelessness in San Francisco. When you look at the data of what is happening with our crime numbers over the past five years, they are showing a decline, especially with car break-ins, burglaries, and other challenges that people are talking about. In comparison to other U.S. cities, San Francisco is really at the bottom. So I get that people feel that there are problems and there are concerns. They see the viral videos, and they think, oh, what’s going on in San Francisco?”
Raddatz said, “But those statistics are from people who live here. 17% think it’s on the right track. They live here.”
Breed said, “But it’s not always attributed just to the issues around crime, you know? It’s attributed to the issues around homelessness as well. It’s significant to really continue to do the work that we’re doing so that people cannot only see and feel the difference.”
She added, “When people are coming to San Francisco, they are surprised that things aren’t as bad as what they thought they were. Are things perfect in San Francisco? No, they’re not, but we continue to work aggressively at it in order to solve some of our most pressing problems.”
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Why Los Angeles Is Not Safe Anymore | Dennis Zine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL8DU0MUuk8
Migrant enclaves already are at the top of the U.S. lists for bad places to - 10 of the 50 worst places in America to live according to this list are in California, and all of them are famous for their illegal populations. MONICA SHOWALTER
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD BIDEN, OR ANY DEM SAY THE WORD ‘HOMELESS’??? BUT YOU SURE HAVE HEARD THEM SAY ‘AMNESTY’. GIVE OUR ILLEGALS MUCHO MAS MORE!
LOS ANGELES UNBELIEVABLE OUT OF CONTROL HOMELESS SLUMS | HOMELESS CRISIS IN AMERICA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQHKygOupwg
“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes (CALIFORNIA?). This is the way a great country is raided by its elite.” Karen McQuillan
VIDEO: MEX GANG MURDER MAN IN HIS TRUCK! GRAPHIC!
'Should we even be standing here?' Rob Schmitt goes on shocking Los Angeles ride-along
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVfqSgtwDpQ
CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES NO. 2, NUMBER ON IS INLAND EMPIRE, ALSO LIST S.F.
AVOID THESE CITIES (7 WORST in America)
VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De_atmpPgC0
Migrant enclaves already are at the top of the U.S. lists for bad places to - 10 of the 50 worst places in America to live according to this list are in California, and all of them are famous for their illegal populations.
MONICA SHOWALTER
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DEMOCRAT PARTY? I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue and stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms, are hostile to people of faith and spirituality, demonize the police and protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans, believe in open borders, weaponize the national security state to go after political opponents, and above all, dragging us ever closer to nuclear war. TULSI GABBARD
Pelosi, through her holdings in local restaurants and vineyards, is reputed to be one of the largest employers of illegal labor in Northern California.
"Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, the twin nutters of Congress, were certain they could beat Trump at his own game, but have made fools of themselves, as usual. The stand-off is not over but with each passing day, the Democrats reveal more of their anti-American, pro-illegal immigration agenda. Conservatives have been sounding the alarm for years: Democrats do not care about American citizens!" PATRICIA McCARTHY
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S NAFTA INVASION TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED. Is it working???
There is also an impact on wages.
If impoverished migrants agree to work for less than minimum wages without benefits, the working-class citizens either suffers job redundancy or depression in wages. If they work under the table and send their untaxed remittances home, communities go underdeveloped and get a run-down look.
RAJAN LAAD
When some among the migrants commit violent crimes -- through car break-ins, burglaries, vandalism, fentanyl dealing, identity theft, strongarm robberies, rapes, and other violent crimes, it is the working class citizen who suffers. At times, they pay with their lives.By Rajan Laad
The costs of illegal immigration are
being carefully hidden by Democrats.
MONICA SHOWALTER
What's more, Mexico generally benefits from shipping its surplus uneducated population to the states to take the pressure valve off the potential for unrest. Corrupt Mexican officials often reap "fees" from letting illegal migrants from other countries as well as their own pass through their territory. MONICA SHOWALTER
Last month, a thrice-deported illegal immigrant with a long history
of violent crime stabbed five people, killing two, John Paulson, 45,
and Kimberly Susan Fial, 55, at the Grace Baptist Church in San
Jose. DAVE SEMINARA
Releasing to the streets gang members eligible for deportation is nothing new in Santa Clara County. ICE published a report in 2018 detailing that 142 gang members whom the agency was seeking to deport during a nine-month period in 2017 were released by local law enforcement rather than being transferred to federal custody; Santa Clara County led the nation, releasing 22 gang members. DAVE SEMINARA
As reported by Breitbart Texas, the arrest of migrants with existing criminal records has risen more than 350 percent since 2020. According to CBP, the number of migrants who have criminal convictions for Homicide and Manslaughter rose from 3 encounters in 2020 to more than 60 in 2022. More than 120 migrants with homicide or manslaughter convictions have been encountered since January 2021 — compared to 11 during the Trump era. The increase reflects those convicted of prior offenses committed in the United States.
Joe Biden and other Democrats have spent the last four years repeating the mantra “no one is above the law.” Yet Biden has advocated policies that would, as the San Francisco Chronicle recently noted, effectively make the United States a sanctuary country.
Adios, Sanctuary La Raza Welfare State of California
A fifth-generation Californian laments his state’s ongoing economic collapse.
By Steve Baldwin
American Spectator
What’s clear is that the producers are leaving the state and the takers are coming in. Many of the takers are illegal aliens, now estimated to number over 2.6 million (BLOG: THE NUMBER IS CLOSER TO 15 MILLION ILLEAGLS). The Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates that California spends $22 billion (DATED: NOW ABOUT $35 BILLION YEARLY AND THAT IS ON THE STATE LEVEL ONLY. COUNTIES PAY OUT MORE) on government services for illegal aliens, including welfare, education, Medicaid, and criminal justice system costs.
Liberals claim they more than make that up with taxes paid, but that’s simply not true. It’s not even close. FAIR estimates illegal aliens in California contribute only $1.21 billion in tax revenue, which means they cost California $20.6 billion, or at least $1,800 per household.
Nonetheless, open border advocates, such as Facebook Chairman Mark Zuckerberg, claim illegal aliens are a net benefit to California with little evidence to support such an assertion. As the Center for Immigration Studies has documented, the vast majority of illegals are poor, uneducated, and with few skills. How does accepting millions of illegal aliens and then granting them access to dozens of welfare programs benefit California’s economy? If illegal aliens were contributing to the economy in any meaningful way, California, with its 2.6 million illegal aliens, would be booming.
Furthermore, the complexion of illegal aliens has changed with far more on welfare and committing crimes than those who entered the country in the 1980s. Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute has testified before a Congressional committee that in 2004, 95% of all outstanding warrants for murder in Los Angeles were for illegal aliens; in 2000, 23% of all Los Angeles County jail inmates were illegal aliens and that in 1995, 60% of Los Angeles’s largest street gang, the 18th Street gang, were illegal aliens. Granted, those statistics are old, but if you talk to any California law enforcement officer, they will tell you it’s much worse today. The problem is that the Brown administration will not release any statewide data on illegal alien crimes. That would be insensitive. And now that California has declared itself a “sanctuary state,” there is little doubt this sends a message south of the border that will further escalate illegal immigration into the state.
"If the racist "Sensenbrenner Legislation" passes the US Senate, there is no doubt that a massive civil disobedience movement will emerge. Eventually labor union power can merge with the immigrant civil rights and "Immigrant Sanctuary" movements to enable us to either form a new political party or to do heavy duty reforming of the existing Democratic Party. The next and final steps would follow and that is to elect our own governors of all the states within Aztlan."
Indeed, California goes out of its way to attract illegal aliens. The state has even created government programs that cater exclusively to illegal aliens. For example, the State Department of Motor Vehicles has offices that only process driver licenses for illegal aliens. With over a million illegal aliens now driving in California, the state felt compelled to help them avoid the long lines the rest of us must endure at the DMV. And just recently, the state-funded University of California system announced it will spend $27 million on financial aid for illegal aliens. They’ve even taken out radio spots on stations all along the border, just to make sure other potential illegal border crossers hear about this program. I can’t afford college education for all my four sons, but my taxes will pay for illegals to get a college education.
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