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Ed. Sec. Miguel Cardona Has a Terry McAuliffe Moment on Parental Rights That Could Haunt Biden in 2024

September 22, 2023 by Sister Toldjah Leave a Comment

Though some would disagree, I don’t think it’s even arguable at this point that Terry McAuliffe’s eye-opening comments during a Sept. 2021 Virginia gubernatorial debate with Glenn Youngkin on the public school system effectively doomed McAuliffe’s campaign.

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As many RedState readers will recall, McAuliffe, then the Democratic nominee, told Republican nominee Youngkin during an exchange on parental rights in education that “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”

In the aftermath, McAuliffe’s campaign imploded as he repeatedly doubled down in public appearances and interviews, even walking off the set of one news outlet in a huff. His poll numbers cratered with education-focused voters dramatically shifting away from him in the closing weeks of the campaign.

The rest, as they say, is history, and from that moment on Democrats were put on notice that the sleeping giant in the form of parents had been awakened – and that they wouldn’t back down in the face of intimidation attempts by the Biden administration, or anyone else.

Fast forward two years and Education Sec. Miguel Cardona, one of many far-left activists Joe Biden has in his cabinet, had what may be his own Terry McCauliffe moment in remarks that could come back to haunt his boss in 2024.

In an interview Cardona did with the Associated Press, he was asked about his comments on public schools and education allegedly being “under attack” and to expand on them.  

Cardona told the news outlet that once upon a time, “There was civility. We could disagree. We could have healthy conversations around what’s best for kids,” but times in his view had changed. 

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“I respect differences of opinion,” he went on to say. “I don’t have too much respect for people that are misbehaving in public and then acting as if they know what’s right for kids.”

Watch:

Education Secretary Cardona says that he doesn’t have “too much respect” for parents who have been “misbehaving” at school board meetings.

They’re “acting like they know what’s right for kids!” pic.twitter.com/uQf9nbZJ0F

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) September 22, 2023

Cardona’s remarks drew a sharp rebuke from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ press secretary Bryan Griffin, whose boss has been under relentless attack from the left/media for the last two-plus years over his commitment to keeping gender identity politics and wokeness out of the Sunshine State’s public school classrooms, in addition to strengthening the rights of parents:

Parents, this administration wants you to remain calm (and butt out) as public schools cause your child to question their gender and then the government weaponizes against you.

They all need to go. https://t.co/BTTGekPAlA

— Bryan Griffin (@BryanDGriffin) September 22, 2023

Cardona has made no secret in the past of his disdain for parental input in the education of their children. Flashback:

Biden’s Education Secretary Cardona says parents should not be the “primary stakeholder” in their kids’ education. pic.twitter.com/kZo2pr7Bds

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 30, 2021

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There was also this tweet Cardona posted back in May, just laying it all out there so there was no mistaking where he stood in the debate:

Teachers know what is best for their kids because they are with them every day. We must trust teachers.

As has often been said, when they tell us who they really are, we should listen. Except in this case, Cardona is telling us not just who he is but who Joe Biden is, too. That’s something that all voters, especially those with skin in the game, should remember as they head to the polls in 2024.

Flashback: Joe Biden Takes Swipe at Ron DeSantis, Ends up Committing Glorious Self-Own on School Choice

Filed Under: <![CDATA[2024Elections]]>, <![CDATA[24Biden]]>, <![CDATA[Education]]>, <![CDATA[Joe Biden]]>, <![CDATA[Miguel Cardona]]>, <![CDATA[Parental Rights]]>, News, Red State

Biden administration draws bipartisan rebuke over defunding hunting, archery programs in schools

August 3, 2023 by Cam Edwards Leave a Comment

I’ll say up front that I don’t exactly consider it a profile in courage for Democrats like Jon Tester and Joe Manchin, along with independent Kyrsten Sinema, to publicly criticize the Biden administration’s interpretation of a portion of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA) that’s being used to strip funding for hunting and archery programs in public schools. None of the three dared to rebuke the ATF over its stabilizing brace rule when the Senate voted on a repeal measure a few weeks ago, which would have demonstrated a willingness to go against the Democratic grain on gun issues.

Chastising the Biden administration for using BSCA to block funding from the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) towards in-school archery and hunter ed courses, on the other hand, is a much more politically safe position to take, while still allowing the senators to maintain an appearance of moderation when it comes to gun control.

Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., sent a letter Wednesday to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, urging him to reverse his agency’s interpretation of last year’s Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA). The agency’s interpretation has resulted in funding for shooting sport activities earmarked under the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) being blocked across the country.

“In Montana, our schools have long offered shooting sport and hunter safety classes that play an important role in teaching safety and personal responsibility to students,” Tester stated in his letter. “Outdoor recreation is foundational to our western way of life and any reduction of federal support for these educational programs is unacceptable.”

As Fox News reports, Tester’s letter came shortly after Manchin and a spokeswoman for Sinema also criticized the Department of Education’s interpretation of the BSCA language, which states that no ESEA funds can be used for “training in the use of a dangerous weapon.” Most of the bill’s sponsors insist that the language was meant to prevent school districts from using the funds to train school resource officers (which is problematic in its own right), but the DoE maintains that since hunting and archery both use “dangerous weapons” the funding those programs have received under ESEA is now off limits.

“We agree with Sens. Cornyn and Tillis — this is not Congressional intent, hunting and archery classes should be eligible for funding and not penalized, and we are working with lawmakers on both sides and the Administration to ensure this gets fixed,” Hannah Hurley, a spokesperson for Sinema, told Fox News Digital.

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“The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act was an overwhelmingly bipartisan bill that addressed gun violence and mental health in our schools,” Manchin told Fox News Digital in a statement Wednesday.

“Any defunding of schools who offer critical programs like archery and hunting clubs would be a gross misinterpretation of the legislation and yet another example of this Administration trying to advance their radical agenda with blatant disregard for the law,” he continued.

Where was this Manchin when the Senate voted on a measure to repeal the ATF’s radical re-defining of stabilizing brace-equipped pistols as “short barreled rifles”? Oh that’s right. He was voting to keep the ATF’s executive branch overreach in place, alongside Tester and every single Democrat in the Senate (as well as “independents” like Sinema and Angus King of Maine).

While I’m happy to see these senators speak out about stripping funding for hunter ed and archery programs, the truth is that the Biden administration has been abusing our Second Amendment rights since Day One, and this is just the latest example of the latent hostility towards the right to keep and bear arms in the White House. And let’s be honest; Tester, Manchin, and Sinema all have purely political reasons to go after the administration’s decision regardless of how they really feel about stripping funding.

All three are up for re-election next year and all face significant political headwinds, with Manchin and Tester representing ruby-red states and Sinema declaring her status as an independent last December. Manchin’s also been floated as a potential third-party presidential candidate, but even if that doesn’t come to fruition none of three can return to D.C. for another six-year term without winning the support of Republican voters in their states. Their opposition to the administration’s interpretation may be sincere, but it could just as easily be an attempt to show their “moderate” stance on gun issues heading into 2024.

As for the funding itself, if Cardona doesn’t reverse course there’s an effort underway in Congress to restore the money to those school districts impacted by the administration’s latest anti-2A bigotry.

Rep. Mark Green’s, R-Tenn., legislation — the Protecting Hunting Heritage and Education Act — would amend the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) to clarify school programs “training students in archery, hunting, or other shooting sports” are eligible for funding. The legislation comes after a Fox News Digital report showing the Biden administration has started withholding funds for such classes.

“Letting Washington bureaucrats, sitting in a half-empty air-conditioned building in the Swamp, make arbitrary decisions about what kids in Tennessee should and should not learn is the antithesis of federalism,” Green, who chairs the Homeland Security Committee, told Fox News Digital.

It would be nice to see that legislation fast-tracked when Congress returns from its August recess in order to get this funding restored as soon as possible, though it’s still an open question as to whether there’s enough support in the Senate to get the bill to Biden’s desk, much less whether he would sign the measure into law. For now Cardona is standing firm, and Biden himself hasn’t uttered a peep about the funds being stripped from cash-strapped schools and kids being kept from potentially live-saving education and training.

Filed Under: <![CDATA[Archery]]>, <![CDATA[Biden Administration]]>, <![CDATA[BSCA]]>, <![CDATA[Gun Control]]>, <![CDATA[hunter ed]]>, <![CDATA[Miguel Cardona]]>, <![CDATA[Video]]>, Bearing Arms, News

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