📢Very happy and honored to announce that I was offered and have accepted a leadership position with the President-Elect’s Transition Team for the Demolition of the Department or Education (Arizona). This is a temporary position during which federal powers grant my team with both full immunity from prosecution and authority to supersede local law and bypass contravening local and state board of education authority. My charter priorities in the first 180 days shall include: - Rescission of federal grants related to behavioral health services. They are ineffective at improving either academic outcomes or mental health. The experiment and the lies must end. Schools are for academic instruction. Counselors will be reassigned to strictly vocational and college planning duties. Social workers will be terminated and encouraged to find work in juvenile justice system related services. - Wholesale elimination of pedagogical techniques and practices based, in whole or in part, on social emotional learning theories of education. Again, the determinant factors are efficacy and alignment with academic outcome goals. Textbooks, both online and printed, and electronic learning programs will be screened and jettisoned, as determined by my team. - Instructional Spend Percentages. I will temporarily assume district budget authority for each of the state’s local educational agencies (LEAs) for the duration of my charter. During this time, budgets shall be realigned to 2001 levels of core academic instructional spending as defined by the state Auditor General - roughly 64% of all operational spending. For over 23 years, LEAs have doubled spending on ancillary, therapy-orientated social services, causing a massive drop in academic performance. The Proficiency Plunge is real, incontrovertible, and a direct causal factor to low academic achievement. - Administrative staffing trimming (or, “gutting,” subtask team name TBD). To accomplish our instructional spend percentage targets, attrition is necessary. Over the past decade plus, LEAs have ballooned their admin offices over 20%, while academic focus and parent-facing services have atrophied. Statewide, superintendents average salaries and “executive” level benefits represent 2-4x the average annual teacher pay. Teachers shall be our priority, not political figureheads who negotiate employment contracts like MLB free agents. A head principal system shall be instituted. - Vocational pathways. The nation needs to rediscover our roots in the great industrialist past. We are a nation of builders. To this end, all 9th graders will elect a college or vocational pathway in the summer before high school. College pathway elections shall require a passing score on aptitude tests. College is not for everyone. As we speak I am in touch with a team of German colleagues who will assist with the design and implementation of a tradesman vocational model of education for grades 9-12. Industry public-private partnership councils will be formed to facilitate apprenticeship programs in local manufacturing and service sectors. The President-Elect and I are confident these few fundamental changes will radically transform and improve academic outcomes and career-based skills required to Make America Great Again. And at the end of my charter, I will slide back into obsurity like Cincinnatus, to post snarky comments on law, education, and culture. Never to be seen again.

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Arizona awards grants to districts to use counselors and social workers as “safety plans” - in lieu of school resource officers. Using therapy, instead of guns. The program will sunset next year unless legislators renew it. Should they? ⬇️ School-based universal mental health programs, proponents argue, prevent violence from occurring in the first place. Like eradicating pre-crime. That's just pixie dust - and dangerous. Nothing works better against a man with a gun than another man with gun trained to harness the power of violence to stop and deter violence. But proponents of these programs have myopic tunnel-vision - and have become dangerously untethered from reality. The 2021 Oxford shooting that left 4 kids dead, 7 wounded, illustrates in hard, gut-wrenching reality why counselors don’t keep safe. When a school counselor put the well being of a child above the safety of others, when he didn’t think to check his backpack for firearms, and sent him back to class “to be with his “peers” - despite the obvious red flags… 1/

Education’s Broken Compass Education schools should be held accountable for preparing teachers with scientifically supported methods rather than trendy but ineffective theories.