To the comment above; My understanding is that KOC supports quality instruction in philosophy, as well as any other subject, and has ZERO opposition to an ethics curricula that meet general academic content standards for High School philosophy - which this course most certainly does not!
In addition to TUSD's evaluations, those interested in the (many) problems with the course and textbook can visit the Kochs Off Campus! web page containing detailed and expert reviews critical of this textbook. https://kochsoffcampus.wordpress.com/ethic…
A casual glance at the other line items in that budget makes it clear that the legislature has a bloody ax to grind and is ideologically motivated. Every other item there is associated with the nature of the University as a land-grant charter institution - as it has basically been since the beginning. Those items were grandfathered into funding at the legislative level as core features of the land-grant nature of the institution. Academic departmental level funding is and always has been decided by the Regents. The legislature has no business with its paws on academics. This appears to be beyond the comprehension of the cheerleading Libertarians here leaping passionately to the defense of this travesty. Of course, they never would have approved of setting up a land grant university system in the first place.
Local businesses only in the retail space is, "not in the contract" signed by the developer. Translation: Corporate chains coming to 4th Ave. Your visionary city council at work. They really don't seem to get how rare and unusual The Avenue is.
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Here is another fact. Kochs Off Campus! has a long list of reviews of the first printing of this pathetic textbook which are soon to be added to the two already published.
https://kochsoffcampus.files.wordpress.com…
https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-handmaid…