[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 28 (Tuesday, February 13, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H550]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
EXPOSING WOKE KINDERGARTEN
(Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1
minute.)
Ms. FOXX. 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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