Maine’s Gov Should Have Looked Up THIS State Stat Before Slamming Trump
She wants to 'see Trump in court'... parents want something else entirely
The scrappy exchange between her and Trump went viral.. the REST of the story shows up in what’s happening with the education scores in her own state… and why!
Dems haven’t figured this out yet, but there’s an OBVIOUS reason they got their asses kicked even among groups that used to march blindly to support them in the polls.
Some of their policies are so damned crazy that even the activist left can’t keep a straight face in defending them anymore.
Two of the big ones that flipped independents and even some Dems in a BIG way were the immigration/economy/crime issue which has become so intertwined, it’s hard to tease out where one issue ends and the next begins.
The other big one is the ‘dudes in dresses’ lie we’ve been increasingly force-fed since the 2nd half of the Obama years. Parents of school-age daughters have had enough of watching some mediocre male athlete get celebrated as ‘stunning and brave’ for donning a dress and stepping on the faces, scholarships, and dreams of hardworking young female athletes on the way to the top of a podium for unearned accolades.
Last week, Trump invited the media to attend a meeting Trump had with the governors… and Maine came up for discussion, since they want to press the issue and fight for men to compete among women, even knowing such Title IX violations will cost them their federal funding.
She says she’ll take him to court. That exchange went moderately viral.
Democrat Maine Governor Janet Mills says she won’t comply with federal law that says men cannot compete in women’s sports.
Why are democrats so intent on erasing women & allowing men to beat up women?
Should I come to Maine?
— ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) February 21, 2025
Six hours after Gov Janet Mills picked that fight, Maine was being investigated for Title IX violations.
Oops.
Yes, that’s a pretty big story, to be sure. But not the biggest one to be found in Maine’s maladministration.
What did NOT make big headlines — even if it should have — is the sorry state of Maine’s education system, and the role immigration has played in those numbers.
A new report shows academic performance in Maine’s public schools is tanking. At the same time, Maine’s illegal alien population is rising as a result of expanding sanctuary policies. It’s an inverse relationship that deserves some honest examination. Unfortunately, given that most public officials, educators, and members of the media in Maine support sanctuary policies, they have little interest in exploring, let alone acknowledging that any nexus might exist between mass immigration and classroom quality. Nor is there much discussion of how taxpayer funds used to support illegal aliens in the sanctuary-urban areas of the state could be used instead to enhance education more broadly in the rest of the state.
In the down category, new data released by the National Center for Education Statistics reveals that Maine students in 2024 had the lowest test scores in three decades in both reading and math. Just 33 percent of Maine fourth-graders are proficient in math — one of the lowest levels in the nation — while only 26 percent of fourth-grade students are reading at grade level. Eighth-graders fared no better with only 25 percent of them proficient in math and 26 percent proficient in reading. As a result, Maine students now rank 38th in the country.
In the up category, immigration – much of it illegal — is surging especially in the state’s population clusters of Portland and surrounding Cumberland County. Due to sanctuary policies in these communities, the area has attracted thousands of illegal aliens and their children — mostly from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola. As a result, 70 percent of the students enrolling in the Portland school district in 2023 had limited English skills (versus ten years earlier when 70 percent of students entering the district had advanced English proficiency). Across the school district, 57 languages are now spoken which impose monumental classroom challenges. One former school official admitted, “Every teacher needs to know how to teach students who speak other languages…as we continued to welcome in so many new students it felt like we were at a tipping point.” — Federatation For American Immigration Reform
Even if Title IX violations didn’t cost them their federal funding, their Sanctuary State status would.
This sounds like exactly the kind of obstinate challenge to lawful authority that would have Tom Homan licking his chops. It’s a target-rich environment for Tom and his crew.
So much “Find Out”, so little time.