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?
Continue reading →The flap over the Department of Education consigning 300,000 copies of “Helping Your Child to Learn History” to the dumpster is evidence anew that the Federal Government should have no role in education. Illiteracy and low scores in public schools are a national scandal, but it’s hard to see how federal spending improves anything.
Continue reading →Our public school system is our country’s biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.
Continue reading →The 2004 national convention of the National Education Association adopted its usual leftwing legislative goals, giving the green light to the NEA’s highly paid staff to lobby the Congress that will convene in January 2005.
Continue reading →A gaudy sign reading No Child Left Behind, the education slogan of the Bush Administration, guards the entrance to the U.S. Department of Education in Washington, D.C.
Continue reading →All over the country, students, their parents and teachers are in an uproar about the tens of thousands who flunked the test designated as the requirement for high school graduation.
Continue reading →The liberals have been going all out to protect the privacy of individuals against government efforts to ferret out al Qaeda sleeper cells that might be plotting to kill us. But there is one thing I don’t understand: why aren’t they just as solicitous to preserve the Fourth Amendment rights of U.S. citizens who attend public school?
Continue reading →President Bush is celebrating the first anniversary of his No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Education bill and hopes it will give a significant boost to his re-election in 2004.
Continue reading →Bilingual education plays into the hands of the open-borders faction of both political parties.
Continue reading →Many parents assume that the tests given to their children in public school are only for educational purposes. To the contrary, for many years schools have been demanding that students answer nosy questions about their personal behavior and attitudes, about what goes on inside the family, and even about the behavior of relatives.
Continue reading →Behind frequent protestations by public officials about local control of the schools, a federal curriculum has been quietly imposed by law.
Continue reading →The Bush Administration has adopted the approach proclaimed by Bill Clinton in a speech in Chicago on January 22, 1997: “We can no longer hide behind our love of local control of the schools.”
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On Sept. 25, 1998, Rep. Bob Schaffer placed in the Congressional Record an 18-page letter that has become famous as Marc Tucker’s “Dear Hillary” letter. It lays out the master plan of the Clinton Administration to take over the entire U.S. educational system so that it can serve national economic planning of the workforce.
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