On Tuesday, the Department of Education announced new interagency partnerships that will weaken the federal government’s grip on our nation’s school system.
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After seven years of rule by decree by President Obama’s Chicago crony Arne Duncan, why are Republicans reauthorizing the federal government’s authority over the nation’s public schools?
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The Obama Administration is now trying to get around FERPA by the subterfuge of having the states build the databases and assign each child a different ID number.
Continue reading →Federal spending on public schools (which is only a small percentage of their school budgets) was given specific goals in the 2002 law called “No Child Left Behind,” the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
Continue reading →The No Child Left Behind Act, which allowed states to set their own public school standards for “proficiency,” is opposed and considered a failure by all factions in the education world.
Continue reading →Education Secretary Margaret Spellings says that the Federal Government needs some accountability for the billions of dollars the taxpayers pour into university education. That’s right, we do; but her plan, to set up a national database to track students, plus a system of testing like No Child Left Behind, is not the solution.
Continue reading →The reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Education Act offers Congress a splendid opportunity to enforce parents’ rights that have been outrageously trampled on by the public schools.
Continue reading →The liberal press is gloating that the seesaw battle for control of the Kansas Board of Education just teetered back to pro-evolutionists for the second time in five years.
Continue reading →Bush entered the White House in 2001 hoping he would be known in history books as the education president who raised public school standards with “No child left behind.” It now looks like his legacy will be “No illegal alien left behind.”
Continue reading →The recent Ninth Circuit decision proclaiming that parents’ rights over the education of their children terminate at “the threshold of the school door” has understandably stirred up a tremendous backlash.
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A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceutical corporations are gearing up for bigger sales of antidepressant and psychostimulant drugs.
Continue reading →Are taxpayer-subsidized infomercials and payoffs to friendly commentators the federal government’s answer to education problems?
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