Tragically for our children’s futures and freedoms — but predictably, as we warned here and here — Congress heeded very few general principles or President Trump’s good ideas about preserving freedom and privacy, decreasing the federal footprint in education, supporting programs that work, or maintaining fiscal discipline.
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After several listening sessions and guidance from various organizations, President Trump released his proposal to secure our schools. Thankfully, it keeps our Constitutional rights intact.
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As many parents and students know, a National School Walk Out is being promoted for March 14 by liberal organizations throughout the nation. This walkout is about passing more gun control measures; but sadly organizers are trying to mislead students and families to think that this event is simply a time to honor victims.
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March 4, 2018 Congress will pass a budget soon and one of the areas of focus is education. We have seen such a large government
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Our higher learning institutions have been transformed into bastions of leftist ideas. Many universities have a decidedly anti-conservative bias, especially in the social sciences. By discriminating against conservative professors, colleges have ensured that left-wing teachers make up the majority of their teaching staff and inundate their students with leftist principles without being challenged.
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Dr. Karen Effrem shares her recent edition of Education Liberty Watchin which she includes the following three articles by national leaders to help continue to explain the problems with FEPA.
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November 22, 2017 Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) recently introduced the Higher Education Reform and Opportunity Act (“HERO Act” H.R. 4274) and discussions are underway.
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As the Higher Education Reform and Opportunity Act (H.R. 4274) moves through Congress, the threat of a national database of personal information is imminent. The language would come from The College Transparency Act ( H.R. 2434) which would allow the collection of highly personal information throughout an individual’s college career without their consent.
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On February 2, 2017 I discovered the lifeless body of our 24-year old son, Thomas, sitting in a chair in our basement. He was the latest victim of the Opioid Crisis. An estimated 64,000 died of drug overdoses in the USA in 2016, and the majority were due to opioid pain medicines.
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I am hopeful and optimistic about our future. Why? Because our Founders knew that knowledge is power. Our Founders understood the power of transparency, and they wrote it into the U.S. Constitution. Article I, Section 9 states “. . . a Regular Statement and Account of Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.”
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Under the guise of giving states and school districts more local control, Every Student Succeeds Act has instead greatly expanded the federal government’s role in the medicalization of education.
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Students can no longer attend public schools and expect to get a broad based academic education. Instead they are pawns of Big Government and Big Business.
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At a free speech symposium recently held at the University of Missouri, CNN commentator Sally Kohn argued that pro-free speech advocates are merely trying to stifle diversity on our respective college campuses.
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Alabama ACT Aspire Alabama Superintendent Michael Sentance sent a letter June 1, 2017 to Acting Deputy Jason Botel of the United States Department of Education (USDE) on behalf of Alabama State Board of Education that requested to substitute other assessments for Aspire.
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July 21, 2017 HHS Cancels Obama’s Failed Sex Ed This month, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has decided to pull $213.6 million in teen
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Robert Lattimer, our Eagle Forum Science Chairman reports, that Ohio requests feedback on updated academic standards.
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