The Trump administration is going after states in violation of Title IX, like California continuing to allow biological males to participate in girls high school sports. Ryan breaks down why this is the right move, legally and morally, for assistant attorney general Harmeet Dhillon to make.
Priscilla Rahn, former Colorado GOP vice-chair, joins Ryan to discuss her new book just released on Amazon: Restoring Education in America: An Inspirational Teacher Toolbox.
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Priscilla Rahn, former Colorado GOP vice-chair, joins Ryan to discuss her new book just released on Amazon: Restoring Education in America: An Inspirational Teacher Toolbox.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Trump administration filed court documents today that charge the
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state of California with violating federal law by allowing transgender
students to compete in girls athletic competitions. The Department of
Justice citing Title nine, that's the nineteen seventy two law
that bans sex discrimination in education programs and activities that
receive federal funding. Newsmax Chief Washington correspondent James Rosen was
(00:26):
the very first reporter to obtain these court filings. He
joins US Now Live with all the details.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Good afternoon, James, Good afternoon to you, Bianca. Today's filing
and US District Court in the Central District of California
names two defendants. First is the California Interscholastic Federation, which
stages a wide array of competitions for young athletes and
is led by.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Executive Director ron No Setti.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
ICF, in turn, is controlled by the California Department of Education,
run by the elected state Superintendent of Public Instruction, To Thurman,
a rising star in California's Democratic Party. DOJ claims these
two institutions, under these men's leadership, have violated the civil
rights of girls across the Golden State. By allowing transgender
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students to participate in girls athletic competitions and to share
intimate spaces.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Such as girls' locker rooms.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
As one example of what DOJ calls a flagrant violation
of Title nine and of President Trump's executive Order from February,
DOJ cites the ICF High School Track and Field Championships
that were held in May in Clovis, California. There, a
transgender student won the gold in the girl's high jump
and triple jump. DOJ also claims a kind of smoking
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gun in the fact that three days before that meet,
ICF changed its rules to create a new pilot entry
process whereby a quote unquote biological female would receive a
medal if she was kept out of the top three
by a transgender student. The California Interscholastic Federation, the Justice
Department says in its lawsuit, through the pilot entry process
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and its references to quote biological female, has acknowledged the
inherent athletic advantage males have over biological females, and then
allowing males to compete in female athletic competitions displaces girls
and denies girls equal athletic opportunities.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Unquote, California Department of Education is taking federal money, which
is accompanied by a promise when they applied for those
grants to follow federal law as defined as including executive orders.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
And so it is really really clear.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Open and shut that California is in violation of federal
law while taking federal money which has strings attached to it.
So sorry, California, you can have it both ways.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
If California loses in this litigation, it can continue allowing
transgender athletes to compete in girls competitions, but only if
the Golden State forfeits its federal funding, which approaches nearly
fifty billion a year. I asked General Dillon if DOJ
will seek an emergency injunction against California. You're receiving those
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funds while this litigation is underway.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
There are still a few billion that haven't been drawn
down yet, so we have the money. So transferring that
money is dependent on California being in compliance to federal law,
so you.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Don't need to seek an injunction necessarily.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
I think we hold the cards in that regard.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
In June, as a kind of preemptive strike, California sued
General Dillon and her boss Attorney General Pam Bondi, alleging
that DOJ's demands for California to come into compliance with
Title nine are quote unconstitutional as violations of the equal
protection rights of transgender students. So all in all, Bianca,
this promises to be the subject of court action for
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quite some time.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
James Rosen Newsmax he'll be joining us later on in
the program at the bottom of hour number two back
here on Ryan Schuling Live. Inviting your texts on this Monday,
midway through the month of July fifty seven, seven thirty nine.
You can send those along your thoughts on what you
just heard, and I'll tie it in locally in just
a moment. Want to give a hat tip to Shannon
(04:22):
Scott on the other side of the glass. The Detroit
connection reestablished, reunited, and it feels so good. You know,
the All Star break for the baseball teams out there,
and Trek schoobl starting pitcher for the Tigers, will be
the starting pitcher for the American League, and three other
Detroit Tigers are All Stars as well.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
So I take great pride.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
In that Kellikuchira somewhere roaming around either the building or
the grounds or taking a walk doing what she does,
but want to thank her for lining up James Rosen
four today and as he reports there, this is pertaining
to California, but it's not just California. And HARMEI Dylan
is who you heard, their assistant attorney general. She's been
on this program before and will be efforting. And I
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know you hate that word out there. One of your
texters hates that word, using it as a verb. Shannon's like,
what do you mean you can use it? Okay, I
am making the effort.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
You like that?
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Better to have Harmeat Dylan join us. Also, we've got
a line out to Julie Kelly and we're talking about
specifically Dan Bongino and the impasse that was reported over
the weekend heading into the weekend between the assistant Deputy
Director of the FBI, Dan Bongino, and an Attorney General,
(05:28):
Pam Bondi, and whether or not that's been resolved. We
do have some sound from President Trump on the White
House lawn as he was boarding Marine one, suggesting that
he had had a confab with one Dan Bongino and
perhaps things had been smoothed over. But we know that
Dan Bongino is none too pleased with how the Epstein
files and that whole scandal has been handled by the
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Trump Department of Justice. But back to the issue of
education funding education going to be a big topic for
us on today's program. Priscilla Ron has a new book
out and she reached out to me this and I
think you'll find it interesting as well. It's entitled Restoring
Education in America, An Inspirational Teacher Toolbox. Now, she is
(06:09):
a longtime veteran teacher and she's been fighting the good
fight in spite of leadership at the NEA national level,
National Education Association, the American Federation for Teachers and Randy
Weingarten and those who would put the interests of teachers,
their unions, their representation even above those of teachers, and
those interests above those of students.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Students should come first.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
And there's a lot of great teachers out there, my
sister's one of them. But this forced unionization of a
public sector is never a good thing. It removes competition,
it makes it difficult to fire bad teachers. And if
you've worked in any craft, I don't care what it is.
If you're a mechanic out there, thank God for what
you do. And if you're a truck driver, same thing.
(06:54):
But if you have union representation that protects the worst
among you, and that's what a union is design I
didn't do. I know a chain is only strong as
its weakest link.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Goodbye.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
But if there are people out there who are selling
your reputation, the craft, the field that you work in
because they're bad at their jobs or they lack the
work ethic or the ability to do that job well,
and I assume all of you out there who are
listening do your jobs well, then would you want that
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person representing.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Who you are what you are to everybody else?
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Or alternatively, should somebody who is weighing down the perception,
the reality, the reputation of an entire industry. Should you
be able to fire bad employees? Answer is absolutely yes.
But what we see, especially again in public sector unions,
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that meaning government funded, taxpayer funded public school districts out
there where there are terrible teachers who have achieved tenure
at the collegiate level as a professor. The inflated cost
of education at the collegiate level, no doubt due in
large part to administrative fees, positions, salaries, guaranteed income, tenure,
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and that you no longer have to adhere to any
performative standard in order to receive an evaluation by which
you keep your employment. No, you are guaranteed a spot,
no matter how poorly you do, no matter how little
effort you put in. How is that, American? It's not
hard work should be rewarded. We should live in a meritocracy,
(08:35):
and that should apply across the board. There should be
competition in every form of employment. And if you are
the best employee, and you interview the best, and you
perform the best, then you should get.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
The job and you should keep the job.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
But those who lag behind, who drag down the overall
performance of an entire school district, say, in this case, yes,
you should be able to call them from the herd.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Life is tough, helmet.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
I know you've heard that before, and I believe Candice
Owens said it, and it might be the one thing
I agree with her on ever anymore. But that is
a factual statement. You are guaranteed nothing in this life,
nor should you be guaranteed anything in this life, other
than that your hard work be rewarded, and that you
are guaranteed life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. You
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are not guaranteed happiness. That's a key distinction. Thomas Jefferson
was a genius of the English language and how he
constructed the Declaration of Independence, life, liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness. That pursuit is up to you. You have agency,
You are an individual. You control your own destiny on
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many fronts. Now you can go around blaming other people,
making excuses, saying, if it was just not for this,
I'd be a success. Well, those who are truly successful,
they don't let other things, other factors, external factors hold
them down or hold them back.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
You find a way. You find a way through ingenuity.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
And survival and adaptation and improving your skills and working
harder and meeting the right people.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Yeah, that's part of it.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Networking, sure, absolutely, Politicking is part of it in any
field and any profession.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
It's who you know, right, It's not what you know,
it's who you know.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Get to know the right people, build those relationships, those networks,
and cultivate those relationships, not that you're using them, but
in a way that you are. But you are guaranteeing
that you will deliver something in exchange for whatever it
is that you're provided as an opportunity. You'll return that
in favor with hard work, with referring other people to
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the businesses, with a handshake agreement that's in accord that
you have agency, you have buy in, you have a
stake in it, you have skin in the game, and
your success is dependent on the team's success, and therefore
you participate in that success.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
But that is all lost.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
When it comes to the leadership of education, and the
Trump administration.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Is finally due something about it. And here we are.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
It's not just California, but this title written by Jessica
Siemon from the Denver Post entitled Colorado sues Trump administration
over eighty million dollars in withheld education funding. This is
what the Trump DOJ and Department of Education under Linda
McMann is beginning to do. They will wield the power
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where they have it, which comes in the form of
the executive branch in the federal purse strings the dollars
that are distributed to these public schools. And why would
we fund public schools that are openly hostile to the
laws of the land, most notably in this California cases
you just heard with James Rosen, Title nine protections and
I hate even using the term biological girls and women,
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but just as a clarification for distinction purposes, actual women,
those who were born xx, who have those chromosomes, who
were born as a girl, raised as a girl, have
all girl parts, have girls hormones and puberty to development,
to protect those individuals in sports and spaces, so that
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those under Title nine that are reserved for them for
a specific reason and purpose, so that girls have options,
Girls have opportunities, Girls have access to sports that boys
do not boys inherently historical, and I've talked about this
long time ago with one of the early coaches of
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Central Michigan University women's basketball, and it was.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Only incorporated as a Division one sport.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
I'm thinking back to like late seventies, early eighties, right
around there, and that before that, you know, as Title
nine was taking hold. Back in the early seventies, there
were all these men's sports at the collegiate levels, scholarship opportunities,
and Title nine was instituted in large part to create
opportunities set aside specifically distinctly for girls and women so
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they would have equal access to the athletic playing field. Now,
the unintended content sequent Unfortunately that has happened. I've had
these conversations too, working in athletics for as long as
I have and did. What happens instead is, rather than
create and build and provide more opportunities for women, well,
athletic departments run into budget constraints and rather than add
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women's sports, they simply cut men's sports like baseball. A
lot of places Colorado, for instance, Wisconsin another they've cut
baseball because they have to account for the scholarships required
and make sure that they're apportioned equally for women as
opposed to men. So a lot of schools would start
up sports that might be friendly to the budget, like
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a field hockey for women, that sort of thing, rugby,
things that don't require a lot of equipment. One of
the biggest money makers, but Shannon knows this as well,
one of the biggest expenses on the athletic budget sheet
is football. Football makes a lot of money, brings in
a lot of attention. Look a prime is done for
Colorado and Buff's football. That's true, but the facilities, the travel,
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everything involved with football that takes a big minus off
the ledger as well. It's a net positive I think
for most schools in most ways, but it's not like
this cash cow that a lot of people point to
off football. It's the moneymaker for the whole school. It
is and it isn't. It's also a big expense. So
that being said, revenue does not drive a lot of
girls and women's sports. And if it was left to
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the devices of the schools alone, based strictly on a
capitalistic revenue standpoint, then they probably wouldn't have them. And
that's why Title nine is important. Why do I go
into all this because those are guaranteed opportunities for girls
and women specifically uniquely to them. When you destroy that
entire notion by overriding Title nine, as California has by
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saying that biological males can step in identify as women.
Doesn't matter where they are in the transformative process, through
gene therapy or whatnot, they're still born with that y
chromosome that still benefits them and gives them an advantage.
Any who's ever participated in sports, or I would gather
to say, anybody who's covered.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Sports, knows that to be true.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
In defiance of that is, in defiance of biology and
the nature of sport. If there were no differences biologically
between XX and XY, then we would just have open divisions.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
For everybody and may the best athlete win.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
But we know that men, that males with testosterone and
the Y chromosome and that genealogical development, that inherent hormonal advantage, strength, speed, stamina,
breathing capacity, heart size, all of that makes men, by
and large better overall athletes. They're faster, they're stronger, they're
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just better at most sports. And that's not an indictment
of women. It's to say that they're different, and so
we afford them different opportunities, not to be contaminated by
those who would cross over identify as the opposite gender.
You just identify. I mean, how can you just declare
that on high and have that be true. And if
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it were not true that there were differences between men
and women, we would see transgender males Chas Bono et cetera,
transitioning from female xx to male and dominating men's sports
in at least a few categories in at least a
few instances, at a few levels, professional, collegiate, amateur, high school, varsity, junior,
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high Where is it happening? Cite me one example? And
because you can't because I know you can't. That affirms
the point that this only goes in one direction. So
if it only goes in one direction, why is it
only going in one direction? And how does a person
of the left explain this? The arguments I've always gotten
typically are from leftists that are in open defiance of
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reality and logic and common sense, that are denying science
entirely in a disingenuous way. Or the only plausible category
where I give any grace whatsoever are these people who
have never played sports themselves, have no idea, have no concept,
no point of reference.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
And even then, I'm like, all you would.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Need to do is watch a sport for a little while,
watch some NBA highlights, and then watch some WNBA highlights,
and then you tell me where the better athletes reside.
And I hate to talk about it in those brass
tax terms, you know, and it sounds misogynistic, but we're
beyond that point.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I'm sick of having this conversation.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
It's a stupid argument by those that would purport to
enhance or celebrate or embrace participation by biological males in
female sports. It's wrong. It's just plain wrong. So here
in Colorado, Denver Post Jessica Steman. The state joins twenty
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two others and trying to get a total of six
point nine billion dollars and education money release. This is
all the Trump administration and twenty three states across the country.
Colorado and twenty two other states sued the Trump administration
Monday after the federal government unexpectedly froze six point eight
billion dollars and K through twelve education funding slated for
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schools nationwide during the twenty five twenty.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Six academic year. The lawsuit was filed in the U.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
S District Court for the District of Rhode Island and
alleges that the federal government illegally withheld money that was
required by law to go to states on July one.
Other states joining Colorado, which is owned eighty million dollars
include California, Rhode Island, North Carolina, Kentucky, New Mexico.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
The DC is also part of the suit.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Colorado Attorney General Phil Nunne the Wiser said during a
news conference announcing the lawsuit, quote, I am here appalled,
I am here in disbelief. We will have the backs
of parents, teachers, and kids. The frozen K through twelve.
Funding was appropriated by Congress for students learning English, teacher training,
and after school in summer programs, but the US Department
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of Education told state education officials earlier this month that
the money was being withheld pending a review and hasn't
said if it will be released. California Attorney General Rob
Bunta said during his news conference quote, Congress holds the
power of the purse. Trump and US Education Secretary Linda
McMahon have no right to hold these funds back. Colorado
school districts expected to receive about eighty million dollars and
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have already budgeted the funds, including hiring employees for the
new academic year. And then finally this from Alex Morero,
Denver Public School Superintendent quote, The decision to delay the
distribution of congressionally appropriated education funds is a dangerous overreach
of executive authority and a direct affront to public education.
We'll have more on this with James Rosen coming up
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Speaker 6 (21:09):
We cannot fear the future diversity, equity and inclusion. Say
the words, say the words, say you are powerful, you
are the Eddi mosor head high, older, head high, heady, Freedom, freedom, up,
(21:42):
lead high, Okay back.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Karen Ryan schuling live.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
That was Rebecca Pringle, president of the NEA National Education Association.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Between her and.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
We've seen similar lunatic fringe rantings from Randy Weingarten, who's
the president the American Federation for Teachers, I'm not sure
which one is worse. That was bad, these unhinged just
screaming rants about DEEI and then you got music playing
her off stage like she spoke too long at the oscars?
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Do you have to yell?
Speaker 5 (22:14):
Who teaches these people how to communicate, how to deliver
an effective message. This is not a revival, And even
if it were, that's not an effective way to just
scream at people.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
Say it.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
I want to say it now that you told me
to say it. It's like when I'm at a Rockies
game and everybody clap your hands.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Like, no, no, because you told me to. I'm not
going to just respond to your prompt like a trained seal.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
No.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
I'll clap when something is clapworthy, and when i'll plot
and i'll cheer, I'll do all that. But no, no,
don't try to make me do something like that. And
that's kind of where she comes down on this.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Joining us now.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
She is the former vice chair of the Colorado g
OP and author of a book just released entitled Restoring
Education in America, An Inspirational Teacher Toolbox.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Priscilla Ron, Yes, Priscilla, thank you for your time.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
Thanks for having me on. Ryan.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
You know, I hear things like what we just heard
from Rebecca Pringle and from Randy Weiningarten, and I just cringe.
I have to imagine there's more than a small percentage
of teachers who do the same. And yet to counter that,
we have this new book that I think presents a
ray of hope and a pathway to a teacher that's
maybe going through a hard time, giving them the tools
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for success. Take us through the formation of the idea
for this book and how it all came to be.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
Well, I'm going to be starting my thirty second year
this school year this fall. I teach in Denver Public Schools.
I'm a classroom teacher, former principal. And you know, it's
been a slow boil of the frog, right you start
the year off, you go to professional development, and it's
become increasingly DEI heavy, equity training, all the buzzwords. And
(23:56):
every year when we do our SEMAS, which is our
Colorado State Standardized testing, when those scores come out, they
just tape dropping and dropping. And I started thinking, what
are we not doing right in public education? We're so
hyper focused on what's going on socially that we're not
actually strengthening our pedagogy, which is our skill for delivery instruction.
(24:19):
And I thought, you know what, I see the light
at the end of the tunnel. I'm about to retire.
What have I learned that I can give back to
the education profession? And so that's why I call it
restoring education in America. Now, what really prompted me to
get this done was when President Trump find his two
executive orders, one on the Department of Education reducing the
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size and also on ending DEI programs, And I thought,
you know what this is the time to get my
message out, because there's an opportunity there.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
Priscilla, what would you tell let's say, a teacher who
may keep their political views close to the vest, but
they're not on board with a lot of what national
leadership or even leadership at the state and local level
are telling them, like you're saying with.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Regard to DEI, or instituting certain.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Kinds of class content in their classrooms, and they want
a different way, and maybe this book helps present that
different way, but they feel a little bit intimidated to
kind of do things their own way.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
What would you say to.
Speaker 7 (25:21):
That teacher, Sarah, I've written this book specifically to that teacher,
and just know that there are a lot more teachers
who agree with the dissension of what we've been seeing
than don't. Because every time I speak up at a
faculty meeting or on a zoom or in a training,
I'll have a number of teachers come up to me
and say, I'm so grateful that you said something because
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they're afraid. And I'll just name the elephant in the room.
Eighty percent of the teachers in public education are white females.
But what have we seen in the last five years
or so is tearing down if you're a white male,
especially or a white woman called you know, for racist
and all of these things and made accusations about and
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it really does paralyze features. And I want to give
all teachers the tools to make sure that they feel
confident that they can still live out their values in
a way that's effective.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
Just from my personal standpoint, I'm a big fan of Priscilla,
but she not that it matters, but just to the
point she just made is of mixed racial background, black father,
Asian mother. Tremendous story both of them and how they
came to be, and it's really a great love story.
And Priscilla's going to be a little bit tougher to
target and criticize from that standpoint of the white liberal
guilt so forth, when that's not who she is. Priscilla
(26:43):
Ron is the author of Restoring Education in America in
Inspirational Teacher Toolbox, now available on Amazon.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
We hear as well, Priscilla, and you said you.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Were heartened by the Trump administration decisions with the executive orders,
and Linda.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
McMahon herself said, I do my job, my job will
no longer.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Exists, meaning eliminating the Department of Education at the federal
level and returning the funding, the power, the decision making
to the states, which are better tailored for each state,
because every state of our fifty are so different from
one another that there isn't a one size fits all
approach that really works.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
And you've spoken to that.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
We are not getting the results from students in America
test scores, however you want to measure it compared to
the rest of the world. What would an America look
like without the federal Department of Education, which was it
came into being under the Carter administration late eighties, around
nineteen or late seventies, rather around nineteen eighty. And would
it be better in general for the American education system
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to strike the department entirely?
Speaker 7 (27:44):
You know, we existed without a Department of Education and
our students were performing better. I mean, so people can
argue that, but statistically speaking, we were higher in the
world rankings. But what it would look like would be
something very healthy. With this competition and the left, it
makes them very nervous to talk about competing because they
think everybody should have the exact same things. But what
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the job is of an educator is to remove barriers,
and we have to work really, really hard to meet
children where they are. We have seen an increase in
students who need special education and effective needs supports, mental
health supports. It's increased since COVID actually too And so
what does that mean for us as teachers? Our jobs
are harder. We can't kick the can down the road,
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we can't blame someone else, we can't be lazy. This
is not the time to say the federal government's going
to solve all these problems and then be worried about
the funding. When I explain this to people, the funding
is going to come back to the states or stay
in the states. And now it's up to school boards
and state legislators to quote unquote fully fund education and
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make sure that we have very very strong curriculum and
that we're preparing mastered teachers. And that's something that those
are things we haven't been doing, and if we start
doing that, we're going to see education elevate across the nation.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
She shares over thirty years of wisdom through personal stories,
practical strategies, and timeless biblical truths.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Women into every chapter of this book.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
Veteran educator National Board certified Master Teacher, Priscilla Ron our guest.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Final question.
Speaker 5 (29:20):
Priscilla, and I think this is an area of concern,
maybe at the top of the charts for parents in
Colorado nationwide, but I think especially in our state. And
then there's breaking down these barriers like you're talking about
that are woven into the bureaucracy of the nationalization of
our education system, the leadership therein the administrative level of
education in our state. Let's focus there the teachers themselves,
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the unionization of that labor and what is lost in
all of this, from my perspective, is what is in
the true best interests of the students. And further to
that point, how do we incorporate parents to be included
in that process, to have a dialogue like the old
school style of the PTA or thetos. Locally, how would
you help enhance the relationship between parents and teachers and
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strengthen that so that everybody's pulling in the same direction
when it comes to the one thing that should matter most,
and that's the interest of the students themselves.
Speaker 7 (30:15):
Great question. I have a chapter dedicated to moral integrity
and moral courage, and in a time where we as
teachers are being asked to keep secrets from parents. Where
we have a teachers' union that teaches us as teachers
to say, oh, we're you know, we're a safe place.
You can trust us more than you can trust your parents.
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Where we have a system where children can get counseling
without parents knowing, and teachers and counselors in the schools
are closing the door and shetting the blinds and having
one on one private conversations with children without parents knowing,
and we're not supporting strong relationships between students and their parents.
That is the whole chapter that I talk about that
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you have to have moral courage and say, this is
actually not what's in the best interest of children, it's
not what's in the best interest of families, and it's
then it's not what's in the best interest of our
community and the future. So we have to get back
to the basics. I do encourage people to check out
my book. I do have tools in there for teachers,
reflective questions that's going to help walk educators and parents
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if you're homeschool parents through step by step some of
these issues that we're grappling with.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
Restoring education in America an Inspirational Teacher Toolbox. That's the
book just release. It's available in paperback at Amazon, and
the author, Priscilla Ron, joining us, former vice chair of
the Colorado GOP.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Priscilla great stuff.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
As always, thank you so much for all the time
you put into creating this book and for having this
conversation with us here today.
Speaker 7 (31:46):
And thanks for having me on.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Ryan.
Speaker 7 (31:48):
You're awesome.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
Priscilla Ron is awesome as well. It's a unanimous verdict.
We'll take this time out, come back in wrap up
our number one after this.
Speaker 7 (31:59):
Part of US days, number of members of your caucus
have been coasting and engaging.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
In some of the discourse about Jeffrey Epstein. Is this appropriate?
Speaker 7 (32:08):
Free members to be dodn so do you want to
see any action?
Speaker 4 (32:11):
I'm not phoed.
Speaker 8 (32:12):
The American people deserve to know the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth as it relates to this
whole sordid Jeffrey Epstein matter. Democrats didn't put the Jeffrey
Epstein thing into the public domain. This was a conspiracy
that Donald Trump, Pam Bondi, and these MAGA extremists have
been fanning the flames of for the last several years.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
And now the chickens are coming home to.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
Roost and our representative of Keem, Jeffrey, is the minority
leader in the US House. This is not a good
faith argument that he's making. So let's preface everything with that.
This is opportunism and he is jumping in on this.
It's not on a sum moral principal standard. That's that's ridiculous. Now,
if he came out of by saying it come what may,
and I don't care who this takes down. If that
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means Bill Clinton, who is notably included in a lot
of these accusations with photo evidence, then so be it.
If Jeffries did that, then I'd be like, Okay, I'm listening.
This guy's not just making it a partisan issue an attack,
but he is. That being said, he's not wrong. This
was ginned up on our side of the political isisle.
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Meaning if you are a center right conservative, libertarian, populist
voter who supported Donald Trump, this is one of those
issues where we didn't trust what we were being told
that we wanted the whole truth, whatever it was, whoever it.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Harmed or brought down, do not care.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
Do not protect the powerful at the expense of those
who if the average person were involved in this type
of behavior and activity, would be going to prison for
a very long time. Whether that's Prince Andrew, whether that's
Bill Gates, whoever it is. Whether Donald Trump's on that
list and needs to explain it, then so be it.
That's my stance. And then we get this today per
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Leading Report, which is generally a reliable follow on X Breaking,
Trump administration will be releasing more evidence related to the
Jeffrey Epstein case and offer.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Greater transparency per Laura Trump.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
Now, this might have come out of the Come to
Jesus meeting that apparently took place over the weekend between
President Trump and one Dan Bongino.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Bongino for years had clamored on his own program.
Speaker 5 (34:17):
One of the most successful podcasts in America, that we
needed answers on Epstein, we needed full transparency.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
He basically said what I just said.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
And then he goes into the government as the deputy
director of the FBI, and I don't know if he
changed his tune. What came out in that memo, which
I think is what really ticked him off, was speaking
with one voice, Pam BONDI doj the matter is closed.
There's nothing to see here. There is no Epstein list,
even though we said there was, and we gave these
binders that said Epstein Files Part one to conservative influencers
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on the White House lawn, even though all of that happened.
Don't believe you're lying eyes, don't believe what your gut
tells you. We're telling you move on. There's a reason why.
And this is unprecedented in the history. Rather brief as
it is of our Friday Fool the Week segment that
I'm sorry I had to put President Trump on there
when he stepped in and ran interference for BONDI by saying.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
You're still talking about Jeffrey Epstein, that crab. What are
you doing?
Speaker 5 (35:13):
And have you ever watched Donald Trump in any exchange
of the press try to dodge or deflect off a topic.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
That's what stood out to me.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
That was a big red flag to me, because Donald
Trump is free wheeling, swashbuckling bringing the press. Ask any
question you want, no topics off limits. I'll give it
right back to you. And then he's like, let's move on.
That's not important anymore. Why are you talking about that?
I got all these other things that did not set
well with me, and it doesn't pass the smell test.
That's just how I feel your feelings on that as well.
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Five seven seven three nine. It was one year ago
yesterday that the attempt on President Trump's life took place
in Butler, Pennsylvania. Where were you talk about that? When
we come back, our number two Ryan Schuling Live straight ahead,
The Trump administration filed court documents today that charge the
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state of California with violating federal law by allowing transgender
students to compete in girls athletic competitions. The Department of
Justice citing Title nine, that's the nineteen seventy two law
that bans sex discrimination in education programs and activities that
receive federal funding. Newsmax Chief Washington correspondent James Rosen was
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the very first reporter to obtain these court filings. He
joins US Now Live with all the details.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Good afternoon, James, Good afternoon to you, Bianca. Today's filing
and US District Court in the Central District of California
names two defendants. First is the California Interscholastic Federation, which
stages a wide array of competitions for young athletes and
is led by.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Executive Director ron No Setti.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
ICF, in turn, is controlled by the California Department of Education,
run by the elected state Superintendent of Public Instruction, To Thurman,
a rising star in California's Democratic Party. DOJ claims these
two institutions, under these men's leadership, have violated the civil
rights of girls across the Golden State. By allowing transgender
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students to participate in girls athletic competitions and to share
intimate spaces.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Such as girls' locker rooms.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
As one example of what DOJ calls a flagrant violation
of Title nine and of President Trump's executive Order from February,
DOJ cites the ICF High School Track and Field Championships
that were held in May in Clovis, California. There, a
transgender student won the gold in the girl's high jump
and triple jump. DOJ also claims a kind of smoking
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gun in the fact that three days before that meet,
ICF changed its rules to create a new pilot entry
process whereby a quote unquote biological female would receive a
medal if she was kept out of the top three
by a transgender student. The California Interscholastic Federation, the Justice
Department says in its lawsuit, through the pilot entry process
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and its references to quote biological female, has acknowledged the
inherent athletic advantage males have over biological females, and then
allowing males to compete in female athletic competitions displaces girls
and denies girls equal athletic opportunities.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Unquote, California Department of Education is taking federal money, which
is accompanied by a promise when they applied for those
grants to follow federal law as defined as including executive orders.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
And so it is really really clear.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Open and shut that California is in violation of federal
law while taking federal money which has strings attached to it.
So sorry, California, you can have it both ways.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
If California loses in this litigation, it can continue allowing
transgender athletes to compete in girls competitions, but only if
the Golden State forfeits its federal funding, which approaches nearly
fifty billion a year. I asked General Dillon if DOJ
will seek an emergency injunction against California. You're receiving those
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funds while this litigation is underway.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
There are still a few billion that haven't been drawn
down yet, so we have the money. So transferring that
money is dependent on California being in compliance to federal law,
so you.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Don't need to seek an injunction necessarily.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
I think we hold the cards in that regard.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
In June, as a kind of preemptive strike, California sued
General Dillon and her boss Attorney General Pam Bondi, alleging
that DOJ's demands for California to come into compliance with
Title nine are quote unconstitutional as violations of the equal
protection rights of transgender students. So all in all, Bianca,
this promises to be the subject of court action for
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quite some time.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
James Rosen Newsmax he'll be joining us later on in
the program at the bottom of hour number two back
here on Ryan Schuling Live. Inviting your texts on this Monday,
midway through the month of July fifty seven, seven thirty nine.
You can send those along your thoughts on what you
just heard, and I'll tie it in locally in just
a moment. Want to give a hat tip to Shannon
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Scott on the other side of the glass. The Detroit
connection reestablished, reunited, and it feels so good. You know,
the All Star break for the baseball teams out there,
and Trek schoobl starting pitcher for the Tigers, will be
the starting pitcher for the American League, and three other
Detroit Tigers are All Stars as well.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
So I take great pride.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
In that Kellikuchira somewhere roaming around either the building or
the grounds or taking a walk doing what she does,
but want to thank her for lining up James Rosen
four today and as he reports there, this is pertaining
to California, but it's not just California. And HARMEI Dylan
is who you heard, their assistant attorney general. She's been
on this program before and will be efforting. And I
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know you hate that word out there. One of your
texters hates that word, using it as a verb. Shannon's like,
what do you mean you can use it? Okay, I
am making the effort.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
You like that?
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Better to have Harmeat Dylan join us. Also, we've got
a line out to Julie Kelly and we're talking about
specifically Dan Bongino and the impasse that was reported over
the weekend heading into the weekend between the assistant Deputy
Director of the FBI, Dan Bongino, and an Attorney General,
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Pam Bondi, and whether or not that's been resolved. We
do have some sound from President Trump on the White
House lawn as he was boarding Marine one, suggesting that
he had had a confab with one Dan Bongino and
perhaps things had been smoothed over. But we know that
Dan Bongino is none too pleased with how the Epstein
files and that whole scandal has been handled by the
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Trump Department of Justice. But back to the issue of
education funding education going to be a big topic for
us on today's program. Priscilla Ron has a new book
out and she reached out to me this and I
think you'll find it interesting as well. It's entitled Restoring
Education in America, An Inspirational Teacher Toolbox. Now, she is
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a longtime veteran teacher and she's been fighting the good
fight in spite of leadership at the NEA national level,
National Education Association, the American Federation for Teachers and Randy
Weingarten and those who would put the interests of teachers,
their unions, their representation even above those of teachers, and
those interests above those of students.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Students should come first.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
And there's a lot of great teachers out there, my
sister's one of them. But this forced unionization of a
public sector is never a good thing. It removes competition,
it makes it difficult to fire bad teachers. And if
you've worked in any craft, I don't care what it is.
If you're a mechanic out there, thank God for what
you do. And if you're a truck driver, same thing.
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But if you have union representation that protects the worst
among you, and that's what a union is design I
didn't do. I know a chain is only strong as
its weakest link.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Goodbye.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
But if there are people out there who are selling
your reputation, the craft, the field that you work in
because they're bad at their jobs or they lack the
work ethic or the ability to do that job well,
and I assume all of you out there who are
listening do your jobs well, then would you want that
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person representing.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Who you are what you are to everybody else?
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Or alternatively, should somebody who is weighing down the perception,
the reality, the reputation of an entire industry. Should you
be able to fire bad employees? Answer is absolutely yes.
But what we see, especially again in public sector unions,
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that meaning government funded, taxpayer funded public school districts out
there where there are terrible teachers who have achieved tenure
at the collegiate level as a professor. The inflated cost
of education at the collegiate level, no doubt due in
large part to administrative fees, positions, salaries, guaranteed income, tenure,
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and that you no longer have to adhere to any
performative standard in order to receive an evaluation by which
you keep your employment. No, you are guaranteed a spot,
no matter how poorly you do, no matter how little
effort you put in. How is that, American? It's not
hard work should be rewarded. We should live in a meritocracy,
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and that should apply across the board. There should be
competition in every form of employment. And if you are
the best employee, and you interview the best, and you
perform the best, then you should get.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
The job and you should keep the job.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
But those who lag behind, who drag down the overall
performance of an entire school district, say, in this case, yes,
you should be able to call them from the herd.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Life is tough, helmet.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
I know you've heard that before, and I believe Candice
Owens said it, and it might be the one thing
I agree with her on ever anymore. But that is
a factual statement. You are guaranteed nothing in this life,
nor should you be guaranteed anything in this life, other
than that your hard work be rewarded, and that you
are guaranteed life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. You
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are not guaranteed happiness. That's a key distinction. Thomas Jefferson
was a genius of the English language and how he
constructed the Declaration of Independence, life, liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness. That pursuit is up to you. You have agency,
You are an individual. You control your own destiny on
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many fronts. Now you can go around blaming other people,
making excuses, saying, if it was just not for this,
I'd be a success. Well, those who are truly successful,
they don't let other things, other factors, external factors hold
them down or hold them back.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
You find a way. You find a way through ingenuity.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
And survival and adaptation and improving your skills and working
harder and meeting the right people.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Yeah, that's part of it.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Networking, sure, absolutely, Politicking is part of it in any
field and any profession.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
It's who you know, right, It's not what you know,
it's who you know.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Get to know the right people, build those relationships, those networks,
and cultivate those relationships, not that you're using them, but
in a way that you are. But you are guaranteeing
that you will deliver something in exchange for whatever it
is that you're provided as an opportunity. You'll return that
in favor with hard work, with referring other people to
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the businesses, with a handshake agreement that's in accord that
you have agency, you have buy in, you have a
stake in it, you have skin in the game, and
your success is dependent on the team's success, and therefore
you participate in that success.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
But that is all lost.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
When it comes to the leadership of education, and the
Trump administration.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Is finally due something about it. And here we are.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
It's not just California, but this title written by Jessica
Siemon from the Denver Post entitled Colorado sues Trump administration
over eighty million dollars in withheld education funding. This is
what the Trump DOJ and Department of Education under Linda
McMann is beginning to do. They will wield the power
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where they have it, which comes in the form of
the executive branch in the federal purse strings the dollars
that are distributed to these public schools. And why would
we fund public schools that are openly hostile to the
laws of the land, most notably in this California cases
you just heard with James Rosen, Title nine protections and
I hate even using the term biological girls and women,
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but just as a clarification for distinction purposes, actual women,
those who were born xx, who have those chromosomes, who
were born as a girl, raised as a girl, have
all girl parts, have girls hormones and puberty to development,
to protect those individuals in sports and spaces, so that
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those under Title nine that are reserved for them for
a specific reason and purpose, so that girls have options,
Girls have opportunities, Girls have access to sports that boys
do not boys inherently historical, and I've talked about this
long time ago with one of the early coaches of
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Central Michigan University women's basketball, and it was.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Only incorporated as a Division one sport.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
I'm thinking back to like late seventies, early eighties, right
around there, and that before that, you know, as Title
nine was taking hold. Back in the early seventies, there
were all these men's sports at the collegiate levels, scholarship opportunities,
and Title nine was instituted in large part to create
opportunities set aside specifically distinctly for girls and women so
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they would have equal access to the athletic playing field. Now,
the unintended content sequent Unfortunately that has happened. I've had
these conversations too, working in athletics for as long as
I have and did. What happens instead is, rather than
create and build and provide more opportunities for women, well,
athletic departments run into budget constraints and rather than add
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women's sports, they simply cut men's sports like baseball. A
lot of places Colorado, for instance, Wisconsin another they've cut
baseball because they have to account for the scholarships required
and make sure that they're apportioned equally for women as
opposed to men. So a lot of schools would start
up sports that might be friendly to the budget, like
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a field hockey for women, that sort of thing, rugby,
things that don't require a lot of equipment. One of
the biggest money makers, but Shannon knows this as well,
one of the biggest expenses on the athletic budget sheet
is football. Football makes a lot of money, brings in
a lot of attention. Look a prime is done for
Colorado and Buff's football. That's true, but the facilities, the travel,
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everything involved with football that takes a big minus off
the ledger as well. It's a net positive I think
for most schools in most ways, but it's not like
this cash cow that a lot of people point to
off football. It's the moneymaker for the whole school. It
is and it isn't. It's also a big expense. So
that being said, revenue does not drive a lot of
girls and women's sports. And if it was left to
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the devices of the schools alone, based strictly on a
capitalistic revenue standpoint, then they probably wouldn't have them. And
that's why Title nine is important. Why do I go
into all this because those are guaranteed opportunities for girls
and women specifically uniquely to them. When you destroy that
entire notion by overriding Title nine, as California has by
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saying that biological males can step in identify as women.
Doesn't matter where they are in the transformative process, through
gene therapy or whatnot, they're still born with that y
chromosome that still benefits them and gives them an advantage.
Any who's ever participated in sports, or I would gather
to say, anybody who's covered.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Sports, knows that to be true.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
In defiance of that is, in defiance of biology and
the nature of sport. If there were no differences biologically
between XX and XY, then we would just have open divisions.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
For everybody and may the best athlete win.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
But we know that men, that males with testosterone and
the Y chromosome and that genealogical development, that inherent hormonal advantage, strength, speed, stamina,
breathing capacity, heart size, all of that makes men, by
and large better overall athletes. They're faster, they're stronger, they're
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just better at most sports. And that's not an indictment
of women. It's to say that they're different, and so
we afford them different opportunities, not to be contaminated by
those who would cross over identify as the opposite gender.
You just identify. I mean, how can you just declare
that on high and have that be true. And if
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it were not true that there were differences between men
and women, we would see transgender males Chas Bono et cetera,
transitioning from female xx to male and dominating men's sports
in at least a few categories in at least a
few instances, at a few levels, professional, collegiate, amateur, high school, varsity, junior,
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high Where is it happening? Cite me one example? And
because you can't because I know you can't. That affirms
the point that this only goes in one direction. So
if it only goes in one direction, why is it
only going in one direction? And how does a person
of the left explain this? The arguments I've always gotten
typically are from leftists that are in open defiance of
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reality and logic and common sense, that are denying science
entirely in a disingenuous way. Or the only plausible category
where I give any grace whatsoever are these people who
have never played sports themselves, have no idea, have no concept,
no point of reference.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
And even then, I'm like, all you would.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Need to do is watch a sport for a little while,
watch some NBA highlights, and then watch some WNBA highlights,
and then you tell me where the better athletes reside.
And I hate to talk about it in those brass
tax terms, you know, and it sounds misogynistic, but we're
beyond that point.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I'm sick of having this conversation.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
It's a stupid argument by those that would purport to
enhance or celebrate or embrace participation by biological males in
female sports. It's wrong. It's just plain wrong. So here
in Colorado, Denver Post Jessica Steman. The state joins twenty
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two others and trying to get a total of six
point nine billion dollars and education money release. This is
all the Trump administration and twenty three states across the country.
Colorado and twenty two other states sued the Trump administration
Monday after the federal government unexpectedly froze six point eight
billion dollars and K through twelve education funding slated for
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schools nationwide during the twenty five twenty.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Six academic year. The lawsuit was filed in the U.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
S District Court for the District of Rhode Island and
alleges that the federal government illegally withheld money that was
required by law to go to states on July one.
Other states joining Colorado, which is owned eighty million dollars
include California, Rhode Island, North Carolina, Kentucky, New Mexico.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
The DC is also part of the suit.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Colorado Attorney General Phil Nunne the Wiser said during a
news conference announcing the lawsuit, quote, I am here appalled,
I am here in disbelief. We will have the backs
of parents, teachers, and kids. The frozen K through twelve.
Funding was appropriated by Congress for students learning English, teacher training,
and after school in summer programs, but the US Department
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of Education told state education officials earlier this month that
the money was being withheld pending a review and hasn't
said if it will be released. California Attorney General Rob
Bunta said during his news conference quote, Congress holds the
power of the purse. Trump and US Education Secretary Linda
McMahon have no right to hold these funds back. Colorado
school districts expected to receive about eighty million dollars and
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have already budgeted the funds, including hiring employees for the
new academic year. And then finally this from Alex Morero,
Denver Public School Superintendent quote, The decision to delay the
distribution of congressionally appropriated education funds is a dangerous overreach
of executive authority and a direct affront to public education.
We'll have more on this with James Rosen coming up
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bottom of our number two straight Ahead. Priscilla Ron, author
of Restoring Education in America and Inspirational Teacher Toolbox, former
co chair of the Colorado GOP. If you're looking to
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Speaker 6 (21:09):
We cannot fear the future diversity, equity and inclusion. Say
the words, say the words, say you are powerful, you
are the Eddi mosor head high, older, head high, heady, Freedom, freedom, up,
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Speaker 3 (21:45):
Karen Ryan schuling live.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
That was Rebecca Pringle, president of the NEA National Education Association.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Between her and.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
We've seen similar lunatic fringe rantings from Randy Weingarten, who's
the president the American Federation for Teachers, I'm not sure
which one is worse. That was bad, these unhinged just
screaming rants about DEEI and then you got music playing
her off stage like she spoke too long at the oscars?
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Do you have to yell?
Speaker 5 (22:14):
Who teaches these people how to communicate, how to deliver
an effective message. This is not a revival, And even
if it were, that's not an effective way to just
scream at people.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
Say it.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
I want to say it now that you told me
to say it. It's like when I'm at a Rockies
game and everybody clap your hands.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Like, no, no, because you told me to. I'm not
going to just respond to your prompt like a trained seal.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
No.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
I'll clap when something is clapworthy, and when i'll plot
and i'll cheer, I'll do all that. But no, no,
don't try to make me do something like that. And
that's kind of where she comes down on this.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Joining us now.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
She is the former vice chair of the Colorado g
OP and author of a book just released entitled Restoring
Education in America, An Inspirational Teacher Toolbox.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Priscilla Ron, Yes, Priscilla, thank you for your time.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
Thanks for having me on. Ryan.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
You know, I hear things like what we just heard
from Rebecca Pringle and from Randy Weiningarten, and I just cringe.
I have to imagine there's more than a small percentage
of teachers who do the same. And yet to counter that,
we have this new book that I think presents a
ray of hope and a pathway to a teacher that's
maybe going through a hard time, giving them the tools
(23:25):
for success. Take us through the formation of the idea
for this book and how it all came to be.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
Well, I'm going to be starting my thirty second year
this school year this fall. I teach in Denver Public Schools.
I'm a classroom teacher, former principal. And you know, it's
been a slow boil of the frog, right you start
the year off, you go to professional development, and it's
become increasingly DEI heavy, equity training, all the buzzwords. And
(23:56):
every year when we do our SEMAS, which is our
Colorado State Standardized testing, when those scores come out, they
just tape dropping and dropping. And I started thinking, what
are we not doing right in public education? We're so
hyper focused on what's going on socially that we're not
actually strengthening our pedagogy, which is our skill for delivery instruction.
(24:19):
And I thought, you know what, I see the light
at the end of the tunnel. I'm about to retire.
What have I learned that I can give back to
the education profession? And so that's why I call it
restoring education in America. Now, what really prompted me to
get this done was when President Trump find his two
executive orders, one on the Department of Education reducing the
(24:43):
size and also on ending DEI programs, And I thought,
you know what this is the time to get my
message out, because there's an opportunity there.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
Priscilla, what would you tell let's say, a teacher who
may keep their political views close to the vest, but
they're not on board with a lot of what national
leadership or even leadership at the state and local level
are telling them, like you're saying with.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Regard to DEI, or instituting certain.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Kinds of class content in their classrooms, and they want
a different way, and maybe this book helps present that
different way, but they feel a little bit intimidated to
kind of do things their own way.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
What would you say to.
Speaker 7 (25:21):
That teacher, Sarah, I've written this book specifically to that teacher,
and just know that there are a lot more teachers
who agree with the dissension of what we've been seeing
than don't. Because every time I speak up at a
faculty meeting or on a zoom or in a training,
I'll have a number of teachers come up to me
and say, I'm so grateful that you said something because
(25:43):
they're afraid. And I'll just name the elephant in the room.
Eighty percent of the teachers in public education are white females.
But what have we seen in the last five years
or so is tearing down if you're a white male,
especially or a white woman called you know, for racist
and all of these things and made accusations about and
(26:08):
it really does paralyze features. And I want to give
all teachers the tools to make sure that they feel
confident that they can still live out their values in
a way that's effective.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
Just from my personal standpoint, I'm a big fan of Priscilla,
but she not that it matters, but just to the
point she just made is of mixed racial background, black father,
Asian mother. Tremendous story both of them and how they
came to be, and it's really a great love story.
And Priscilla's going to be a little bit tougher to
target and criticize from that standpoint of the white liberal
guilt so forth, when that's not who she is. Priscilla
(26:43):
Ron is the author of Restoring Education in America in
Inspirational Teacher Toolbox, now available on Amazon.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
We hear as well, Priscilla, and you said you.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Were heartened by the Trump administration decisions with the executive orders,
and Linda.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
McMahon herself said, I do my job, my job will
no longer.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Exists, meaning eliminating the Department of Education at the federal
level and returning the funding, the power, the decision making
to the states, which are better tailored for each state,
because every state of our fifty are so different from
one another that there isn't a one size fits all
approach that really works.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
And you've spoken to that.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
We are not getting the results from students in America
test scores, however you want to measure it compared to
the rest of the world. What would an America look
like without the federal Department of Education, which was it
came into being under the Carter administration late eighties, around
nineteen or late seventies, rather around nineteen eighty. And would
it be better in general for the American education system
(27:40):
to strike the department entirely?
Speaker 7 (27:44):
You know, we existed without a Department of Education and
our students were performing better. I mean, so people can
argue that, but statistically speaking, we were higher in the
world rankings. But what it would look like would be
something very healthy. With this competition and the left, it
makes them very nervous to talk about competing because they
think everybody should have the exact same things. But what
(28:08):
the job is of an educator is to remove barriers,
and we have to work really, really hard to meet
children where they are. We have seen an increase in
students who need special education and effective needs supports, mental
health supports. It's increased since COVID actually too And so
what does that mean for us as teachers? Our jobs
are harder. We can't kick the can down the road,
(28:30):
we can't blame someone else, we can't be lazy. This
is not the time to say the federal government's going
to solve all these problems and then be worried about
the funding. When I explain this to people, the funding
is going to come back to the states or stay
in the states. And now it's up to school boards
and state legislators to quote unquote fully fund education and
(28:52):
make sure that we have very very strong curriculum and
that we're preparing mastered teachers. And that's something that those
are things we haven't been doing, and if we start
doing that, we're going to see education elevate across the nation.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
She shares over thirty years of wisdom through personal stories,
practical strategies, and timeless biblical truths.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Women into every chapter of this book.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
Veteran educator National Board certified Master Teacher, Priscilla Ron our guest.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Final question.
Speaker 5 (29:20):
Priscilla, and I think this is an area of concern,
maybe at the top of the charts for parents in
Colorado nationwide, but I think especially in our state. And
then there's breaking down these barriers like you're talking about
that are woven into the bureaucracy of the nationalization of
our education system, the leadership therein the administrative level of
education in our state. Let's focus there the teachers themselves,
(29:44):
the unionization of that labor and what is lost in
all of this, from my perspective, is what is in
the true best interests of the students. And further to
that point, how do we incorporate parents to be included
in that process, to have a dialogue like the old
school style of the PTA or thetos. Locally, how would
you help enhance the relationship between parents and teachers and
(30:07):
strengthen that so that everybody's pulling in the same direction
when it comes to the one thing that should matter most,
and that's the interest of the students themselves.
Speaker 7 (30:15):
Great question. I have a chapter dedicated to moral integrity
and moral courage, and in a time where we as
teachers are being asked to keep secrets from parents. Where
we have a teachers' union that teaches us as teachers
to say, oh, we're you know, we're a safe place.
You can trust us more than you can trust your parents.
(30:37):
Where we have a system where children can get counseling
without parents knowing, and teachers and counselors in the schools
are closing the door and shetting the blinds and having
one on one private conversations with children without parents knowing,
and we're not supporting strong relationships between students and their parents.
That is the whole chapter that I talk about that
(30:57):
you have to have moral courage and say, this is
actually not what's in the best interest of children, it's
not what's in the best interest of families, and it's
then it's not what's in the best interest of our
community and the future. So we have to get back
to the basics. I do encourage people to check out
my book. I do have tools in there for teachers,
reflective questions that's going to help walk educators and parents
(31:20):
if you're homeschool parents through step by step some of
these issues that we're grappling with.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
Restoring education in America an Inspirational Teacher Toolbox. That's the
book just release. It's available in paperback at Amazon, and
the author, Priscilla Ron, joining us, former vice chair of
the Colorado GOP.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Priscilla great stuff.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
As always, thank you so much for all the time
you put into creating this book and for having this
conversation with us here today.
Speaker 7 (31:46):
And thanks for having me on.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Ryan.
Speaker 7 (31:48):
You're awesome.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
Priscilla Ron is awesome as well. It's a unanimous verdict.
We'll take this time out, come back in wrap up
our number one after this.
Speaker 7 (31:59):
Part of US days, number of members of your caucus
have been coasting and engaging.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
In some of the discourse about Jeffrey Epstein. Is this appropriate?
Speaker 7 (32:08):
Free members to be dodn so do you want to
see any action?
Speaker 4 (32:11):
I'm not phoed.
Speaker 8 (32:12):
The American people deserve to know the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth as it relates to this
whole sordid Jeffrey Epstein matter. Democrats didn't put the Jeffrey
Epstein thing into the public domain. This was a conspiracy
that Donald Trump, Pam Bondi, and these MAGA extremists have
been fanning the flames of for the last several years.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
And now the chickens are coming home to.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
Roost and our representative of Keem, Jeffrey, is the minority
leader in the US House. This is not a good
faith argument that he's making. So let's preface everything with that.
This is opportunism and he is jumping in on this.
It's not on a sum moral principal standard. That's that's ridiculous. Now,
if he came out of by saying it come what may,
and I don't care who this takes down. If that
(32:57):
means Bill Clinton, who is notably included in a lot
of these accusations with photo evidence, then so be it.
If Jeffries did that, then I'd be like, Okay, I'm listening.
This guy's not just making it a partisan issue an attack,
but he is. That being said, he's not wrong. This
was ginned up on our side of the political isisle.
(33:19):
Meaning if you are a center right conservative, libertarian, populist
voter who supported Donald Trump, this is one of those
issues where we didn't trust what we were being told
that we wanted the whole truth, whatever it was, whoever it.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Harmed or brought down, do not care.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
Do not protect the powerful at the expense of those
who if the average person were involved in this type
of behavior and activity, would be going to prison for
a very long time. Whether that's Prince Andrew, whether that's
Bill Gates, whoever it is. Whether Donald Trump's on that
list and needs to explain it, then so be it.
That's my stance. And then we get this today per
(33:55):
Leading Report, which is generally a reliable follow on X Breaking,
Trump administration will be releasing more evidence related to the
Jeffrey Epstein case and offer.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Greater transparency per Laura Trump.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
Now, this might have come out of the Come to
Jesus meeting that apparently took place over the weekend between
President Trump and one Dan Bongino.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Bongino for years had clamored on his own program.
Speaker 5 (34:17):
One of the most successful podcasts in America, that we
needed answers on Epstein, we needed full transparency.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
He basically said what I just said.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
And then he goes into the government as the deputy
director of the FBI, and I don't know if he
changed his tune. What came out in that memo, which
I think is what really ticked him off, was speaking
with one voice, Pam BONDI doj the matter is closed.
There's nothing to see here. There is no Epstein list,
even though we said there was, and we gave these
binders that said Epstein Files Part one to conservative influencers
(34:48):
on the White House lawn, even though all of that happened.
Don't believe you're lying eyes, don't believe what your gut
tells you. We're telling you move on. There's a reason why.
And this is unprecedented in the history. Rather brief as
it is of our Friday Fool the Week segment that
I'm sorry I had to put President Trump on there
when he stepped in and ran interference for BONDI by saying.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
You're still talking about Jeffrey Epstein, that crab. What are
you doing?
Speaker 5 (35:13):
And have you ever watched Donald Trump in any exchange
of the press try to dodge or deflect off a topic.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
That's what stood out to me.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
That was a big red flag to me, because Donald
Trump is free wheeling, swashbuckling bringing the press. Ask any
question you want, no topics off limits. I'll give it
right back to you. And then he's like, let's move on.
That's not important anymore. Why are you talking about that?
I got all these other things that did not set
well with me, and it doesn't pass the smell test.
That's just how I feel your feelings on that as well.
(35:42):
Five seven seven three nine. It was one year ago
yesterday that the attempt on President Trump's life took place
in Butler, Pennsylvania. Where were you talk about that? When
we come back, our number two Ryan Schuling Live straight ahead,
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