Recent Posts
Whether called homeschooling or DIY education, family-directed learning has been growing in popularity for years in the U.S. alongside disappointment in the rigidity, politicization, and flat-out poor results of traditional public schools. That growth was supercharged during the COVID-19 pandemic when extended closures and bumbled remote learning drove many families to experiment with teaching their own kids. The big question was whether the end of public health controls would also curtail interest in homeschooling. We know now that it didn't. Americans' taste for DIY education is on the rise.
Homeschooling Grows at Triple the Pre-Pandemic Rate
"In the 2024-2025 school year, homeschooling continued to grow across the United States, increasing at an average rate of 5.4%," Angela Watson of the Johns Hopkins University School of Education's Homeschool Hub wrote earlier this month. "This is nearly three times the pre-pandemic homeschooling growth rate of around 2%." She added that more than a third of the states from which data is available report their highest homeschooling numbers ever, even exceeding the peaks reached when many public and private schools were closed during the pandemic.
After COVID-19 public health measures were suspended, there was a brief drop in homeschooling as parents and families returned to old habits. That didn't last long. Homeschooling began surging again in the 2023-2024 school year, with that growth continuing last year. Based on numbers from 22 states (not all states have released data, and many don't track homeschoolers), four report declines in the ranks of homeschooled children—Delaware, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, and Tennessee—while the others report growth from around 1 percent (Florida and Louisiana) to as high as 21.5 percent (South Carolina).
OAKLAND, Calif. - Oakland might have to pay at least $230 million as a result of a federal judge's finding that the city directly prevented a company from developing a coal terminal, forcing it into bankruptcy.
Bankruptcy judges rules for companies
The 47-page ruling was issued Tuesday by Western District of Kentucky U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Joan Lloyd, in favor of a company called Insight Terminal Solutions, or ITS, vs. Oakland.
Lloyd found that Oakland "tortiously interfered" with ITS, which subleased from Oakland Bulk and Oversized Terminal, whose main developer is Phil Tagami, when it stopped these companies from constructing a terminal that would have shipped coal overseas.
The judge specifically called out former Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and former City Councilmember Dan Kalb and others, who said at the time that they would "do everything in their power to stop the Terminal project," according to the ruling.
As a result, the judge wrote, then-Oakland City Attorney Barbara Parker and employees in her office would not acknowledge the validity of the ITS's sublease and provided a "false statement" to interfere with the terminal project.
...
"Such position has been reaffirmed and further propagated by Mayor Barbara Lee, who, as recently as March 2025, stated that she would stop a coal terminal from moving forward," the judge wrote.
...
In 2016, Tagami sued the city of Oakland after the City Council, which voted to ban the transport of coal through Oakland, resulting in protests throughout the city.
...
In September, Oakland exhausted its last-ditch effort to appeal a state court ruling that found in favor of Tagami's terminal.
As a result of that ruling, Tagami will be able to keep and extend its lease for a plot of city-owned land to restart the terminal project.
...
What exactly Oakland will have to pay has yet to be determined.
ITS is arguing that it is owed damages worth $673 million, while Oakland's expert conceded that damages could be at least $230 million.
Sometimes they don't seem like cops as much as they are regular criminals who went to the academy with the intent of working an angle.
forget kentuck, he is dumber than dirt, here's the real threats:
Mark Kelly has got to be the dumbest astronaut ever, and he only became a senator because of his wife getting shot by another moon bat and by voter fraud. He wants to be VP next time, but Slutkin is even worse than the cue ball - she is being groomed for the 2028 nominee.
Meanwhile, the Department of War says:
FAFO
When you clowns let Fat Teddy Kennedy stay in office you lost any hope of maintaining "Moral Clarity" Kensuck. **** off and die please.
