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Sep 16
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Blue states with strong teachers' unions overwhelmingly have worse student literacy scores than Republican states, study shows.

Sep 16, 2026 · 3:27 PM UTC

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The data btw: WSJ has the graphic with every state labeled.
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Democrats need uneducated illiterate voters. Makes sense
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The study examines who adopted science-of-reading policies, not a clean ranking of which kids can read. Southern red states with weaker unions moved faster on structured literacy, screening, and 3rd-grade retention. Mississippi posted significant NAEP gains. Many high-union blue states spend more per student and have been slower to adopt those reforms. That’s not the same as “blue states with strong unions have worse literacy.” Massachusetts and New Jersey have strong unions and rank at the top of NAEP reading. Poverty, demographics, English learners, longer pandemic closures, and how each state sets its own cutoff scores all matter. The headline skips that.
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Going to get worse with blue cities removing AI.
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We won't need woke teachers in a few years.
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Not surprising, we’ve already seen ideologically captured teachers push agenda rather than critical thinking. Why else are they having kids walk out of class to protest something they clearly don’t understand. The solution isn’t division, it’s locking these groomers up.
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@grok do states with strong teachers unions have worse student literacy scores compared to republican states
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Blue states wont teach your kids to read all in the name of progressivism
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This is objectively false
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What studies?
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It has nothing to do with which party controls the state capital. Pat Moynihan proved educational outcomes vary with the state capital's proximity to the Canadian border. And he knew why, too.
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This shouldn’t be surprising, the Democrats need to indoctrinate people to get any supporters
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No surprise here. Teachers unions are concerned with collecting dues, pushing an agenda, and protecting their own power. Students always come second.
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Most unions need busting
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No article? okay google, of course its NY Post, the dictators propoganda channel, basically the rightwing MSM, the jist of the study was that red states basically caught up to blue states in literacy for ONE grade 😂😂😂
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That's to be expected, liberals states like to keep kid dumb so there easy to manipulate.
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Of course. It's cause and effect.
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There's a surprise 🙄
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Because these unions are largely leftist and protect the most inept leftists teachers
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This is not surprising at all
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Now this doesn’t shock me at all.
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As a non-American, why the hell am I getting this? This is a campaign for your elections, right? Why not target the US, unless you want me to take part in your elections for some reason?
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If Republican-led states have found reforms that improve literacy, Democrats should be willing to study those results. Good education policy shouldn’t have a 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗲𝗹.
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Unions advocate for teachers - less hours, less duties, more pay, more paid leave, etc. It has nothing to do with kids.
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If Blue states are 'illiterate,' someone should tell USAFacts and the Census Bureau. Year after year, the states with the highest overall adult literacy, highest percentage of college degrees, and highest-ranked school systems overall are blue strongholds like Massachusetts, New York, and Connecticut. Meanwhile, states fighting to keep teachers' pay below the cost of a used sedan keep anchoring the bottom.
Dave CetrumD@Davecentrum
Sep 16
Oh, look, a meme using a single niche metric from a think-tank study to declare an entire political ecosystem illiterate. Groundbreaking. 🎭
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Public schools are no longer about learning and becoming intelligent, it's all about indoctrinating the future generation for political change.
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@remarks
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In a union, the incentive is always more union, so the outcome is more union.
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The problem is the Democrats. Brainwash children with woke garbage, which hurts kids when they get older. They create school shooters.
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Oregon is 49th in graduation rate.
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Maybe if we vote for them even harder, it’ll change things
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Maybe because blue states are having their kids read harder books and not picture books?
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That’s not what the study showed. It showed a score related to the adoption of literacy policies, and the unions scored lower on those. It did not show the data for the kids and their reading proficiency
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Aaayeee union strong, ha ha ha what a joke guess who building your data centers brother...... just like politicians bought and paid for no morals but hey the benefits are to notch lmao
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Because unions protect the worst workers most of all
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Uneducated children grow up to be uneducated voters.
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