Harris is branding Trump unstable and leaving 2028 open. Jones wants the 25th Amendment over a nuclear scare. The target is the same: end America First.

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On our latest episode, we analyze the nationwide victories by Democrats in this week’s Midterms JOHN ROGERS, senior partner and pollster at Cygnal, says Tuesday’s results followed broken promises to lower prices and not get America entangled in foreign conflicts. He also noted that white Evangelical turnout dropped from 26% in 2018 and 23% in 2024 to only 17% this year…a big concern for Republicans going forward. Pastor JACK HIBBS of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills commiserates with unhappy GOP voters declaring “We’re all Californians now: we’re bloody, bruised, but not giving up.” U.S. House Intelligence Committee chairman RICK CRAWFORD (R-TX) warns the election results spell trouble for America’s foreign policy and also endanger National Security as many incoming Democrats have not pledged their support of America. And TONY PERKINS’ commentary offers hope—and a roadmap—for Christians despondent over Tuesday’s Midterm results. All this—and more—coming up on our latest edition of THIS WEEK ON CAPITOL HILL with Tony Perkins, on the Salem Radio Network and Salem News Channel…sponsored by AARP.

With shrinking enrollment and ballooning expenses, public school districts across the country are not only facing massive budget deficits but are also quickly losing the goodwill of the public.

Here in Texas, districts like Houston and Austin are seeing huge budget shortfalls. Around the country, school systems are on the path to bankruptcy yet have done little to cut spending.

So many meetings, conferences, and email exchanges could be phased out, leaving more time to actually teach students.

Many district leaders and their respective school boards seem to believe that these enrollment drops are nothing serious or that they can blame someone else for the problem and absolve themselves of responsibility. Consequently, instead of making significant spending cuts, they go on draining rainy-day funds or spending money they don’t have.

Worse still, the bulk of these expenses do not go toward hiring more teachers, but instead go toward administrative staff, extracurricular programs, curriculum and technology specialists, and countless office workers with undefined roles working in office buildings that the district inexplicably owns and maintains.

In the rare instances that cuts are made, it is mostly the teaching staff — that is, the actual people in the classroom working with students — who are affected.

Realistically, can anything be done to prevent these districts from imploding in spectacular fashion? Speaking as a teacher currently in the trenches, this might be a place where AI can reduce costs while boosting instructional quality.

I’m not talking about replacing teachers with AI-enhanced educational software, turning classrooms into computer lounges, and replacing principals with bored babysitters making sure the kids continue vegetating in front of their screens.

According to a recent essay in the New York Times, this is the bold new idea at Alpha private schools: “At Alpha, there are no traditional teachers, few books, and little paper. All of the academic lessons are delivered via apps, and students can earn lavish prizes for completing their work. Adults are present, but only as motivational guides.”

Predictably, this approach to education has mixed results. While the stronger students usually cruise through content and perform well on their standardized tests, the weaker students who need more help will often experience delays in their progress and opt out of the program altogether.

More importantly, it neglects the most important aspects of schooling: socialization and humanization. Education is as much about results as it is about relationships. Teachers do not merely dispense information to compliant drones who mentally download this information through note-taking and worksheets. Teachers are supposed to design their instruction around the needs of their students, govern their classes equitably, and connect the content of their subject to the world outside the classroom.

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When this learning is outsourced to a computer and mediated through a screen, everything is reduced and flattened — of course, the superficial people in tech will mistake this for efficiency.

Separated from the outside world, students engage with material through drill-and-kill pedagogy, working through assessments that offer practice on state standards. While this works well enough for math instruction, it becomes far less effective in the sciences or humanities.

With all this said, there still might be a key role for AI in public education. While it can’t replace teachers, it can replace many of the people around them. And if used properly, it can also enhance the work that teachers do.

In terms of cutting down bureaucratic bloat, all districts, even solvent ones, could use a DOGE-style audit to identify useless positions, departments, and redundancies. There are countless individuals in a school district who could permanently disappear without anyone noticing. Many of them are collecting paychecks and later pensions for irrelevant work, but no one notices them because they are usually hidden.

Case in point: Years ago, I had a question about one of my paychecks. I sent out emails to the dozen HR people listed on the district website to see who could answer my question. When no one replied, I took a half-day off and drove over to the administration building to see if I could talk to someone face-to-face. Apparently, I went to the wrong administrative building and had to drive to the other one a mile away.

Once there, the receptionist directed me to a hallway on the fourth floor to look for a person who knew about paychecks. After wandering about for 10 minutes, I finally found someone who directed me to yet another person who finally had the answer to my question.

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Most public teachers have a story like this. Some random thing prompts them to take a journey through their district’s Kafkaesque bureaucracy, and then they realize just how many useless people are on the payroll. Today, most queries could be answered in a few seconds with a chatbot. Moreover, most duties done by non-teaching staff, like setting up schedules, organizing information, compiling data and documentation, and making presentations, could be done with AI.

Just as importantly, the people who work with students could accomplish far more with AI support. So many meetings, conferences, and email exchanges could be phased out, leaving more time to actually teach students. So many roles requiring specialized training and higher salaries could either be removed entirely or replaced by those with general experience and aptitude.

In such a system — which would resemble something like Singapore’s exceptional educational program — good teachers would be rewarded with more respect, authority, and income while administrators would function as their subordinates. Good teachers are far less replaceable than administrators, so they should be encouraged to stay in the classroom and help more students.

Like any large organization, most school districts have grown into something so unwieldy and chaotic that enacting meaningful reform is next to impossible. Those with the authority to do so are usually too incompetent and complacent to do anything, and those with competence and wherewithal to do something lack the authority. Meanwhile, taxpayers funding public schools tend to focus their ire on the people they can see and ignore the true source of the problem.

It may be difficult to imagine an alternative to the current dysfunction, but it can be done. And if done right, it will be a good thing for everyone involved.

Hooters returns to NASCAR this weekend at Miami-Homestead Speedway, sponsoring Cole Custer's No. 41 Chevy after years of tough headlines for the brand.

A federal judge on Friday ordered New York City to comply with an immigration subpoena, narrowed to Bronx shelter residents with serious criminal histories, rejecting City Hall's claim the demand was political.

‘So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause’

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After the U.S. Coast Guard identified significant deficiencies, the MSC Poesia was detained in Miami, stranding over 2,000 cruise passengers. An attorney weighed in.

An estimated 40,000 people poured into a city on the Uruguay River on Saturday for Pope Leo XIV's first Mass in South America, as the pontiff sought to raise the profile of the Catholic Church in Uruguay, the region's most secular country.

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So let me get this straight. We are uncovering massive fraud in healthcare, welfare, and government entitlement programs across Democrat-run states — involving sums so astronomical, so staggering, they almost defy belief. Fraud on a scale that raises profound questions about government oversight and accountability. And yet we are supposed to accept, without question, that the very same systems and officials overseeing this colossal fraud are somehow conducting elections that are perfectly clean, fair, honest, and legitimate?

Josh Bishop earned his MLW World Heavyweight Championship shot against Killer Kross in a Last Man Standing match at Saturday Night SuperFight.

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Video shows two men allegedly plotting to hurl objects at a Turning Point USA campus event at the University of New Mexico before their arrest.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio has moved to tighten control over the State Department, telling senior officials in a recent meeting that staff must stay in their lanes and avoid efforts that present conflicts of interest, four people familiar with the matter said.

Emmanuel Macron is the least popular president in modern French history, according to a poll this week, after his approval rating has cratered over the recent weeks of riots consuming the nation.

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