{"id":16300,"date":"2026-05-12T21:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16300"},"modified":"2026-04-25T21:39:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T04:39:27","slug":"you-cant-make-this-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16300","title":{"rendered":"You can&#8217;t make this up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Despite being ranked 45 out of 50 states as one of the worst performing school systems in the country, Oregon&#8217;s ultra-progressive teachers&#8217; union is threatening to pull support for Democrats who finally decided to force them to fix their failed education policies and actually enforce the diversity goals they claim to stand for. Goals that red states like Mississippi are doing better than Oregon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>The [teacher&#8217;s] union has opposed successful strategies used in Mississippi and other states that have boosted reading scores, including a statewide reading curriculum based on the \u201cscience of reading\u201d; mandatory standardized testing that measures student growth; and funding targeted at the neediest schools rather than just by student head count.<\/em><\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wweek.com\/news\/2026\/04\/22\/one-of-oregons-most-powerful-unions-is-rebelling-against-democrats\/\">https:\/\/www.wweek.com\/news\/2026\/04\/22\/one-of-oregons-most-powerful-unions-is-rebelling-against-democrats\/<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite being ranked 45 out of 50 states as one of the worst performing school systems in the country, Oregon&#8217;s ultra-progressive teachers&#8217; union is threatening to pull support for Democrats who finally decided to force them to fix their failed education policies and actually enforce the diversity goals they claim to stand for. Goals that red states like Mississippi are doing better than Oregon. The [teacher&#8217;s] union has opposed successful strategies used in Mississippi and other states that have boosted&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16300\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-local-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-4eU","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16301,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16300\/revisions\/16301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}