Parents have won another remarkable victory over the psychological abuse of children that takes place in public school classrooms.
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Everybody’s looking for the causes of the terrible tragedy at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, and for ways to prevent such horrible happenings in the future.
Continue reading →In the interest of the public’s right to know, Senator Jim Jeffords’ Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions conducted an oversight hearing last week on the controversies surrounding “Channel One.” That’s the 12-minute-a-day news and advertising program beamed into the classrooms of 40% of all 11 to 18-year-olds.
Continue reading →Channel One is a 12-minute-a-day television marketing device forced on a captive audience of teenagers. Children attend school because of compulsory attendance laws, and every day about 40% of all 11 to 18-year-olds are forced to watch Channel One because their school board signed a contract agreeing to compel them. The purpose of commercial television programming is to keep viewers’ attention until the ads appear, and Channel One is very commercial.
Continue reading →Everybody’s looking for the causes of the terrible tragedy at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, and for ways to prevent such horrible happenings in the future.
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Cut taxes across-the-board to put money in the pockets of all taxpayers. Cut rates — the proven way to keep the economy moving. Americans are overtaxed.
Continue reading →The court held that it is a violation of the First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and association for a state university to use “students’ mandatory activity fees to fund organizations which engage in political or ideological activities, advocacy, or speech.”
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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.
Continue reading →The NEA supports early childhood education programs in the public schools for “children from birth through age eight.” NEA members must be living on another planet if they think the American people are willing to put their babies in public schools starting at birth.
Continue reading →The good news is, we were saved from the threat of a mega-union running the public schools when delegates to the National Education Association (NEA) convention this summer repudiated their own leadership by voting down a merger with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT).
Continue reading →If trend-setting California passes the English For the Children initiative on June 2, that will be good news for public school children all over the country.
Continue reading →President Clinton is pressing ahead with his plan to nationalize public school curriculum through national reading tests for 4th graders and national math tests for 8th graders. Congressional opposition to national tests has been led by Senator John Ashcroft (R-MO) and Congressman Bill Goodling (R-PA), chairman of the House Education and Workforce Committee.
Continue reading →G.I. Jane (Demi Moore) proves she is a liberated woman by getting herself beaten to a bloody pulp, almost raped, and subjected to extreme bodily harassment. To the feminists, this is okay because her goal is to be treated just like men.
Continue reading →While most Americans were enjoying nonpolitical fireworks and cookouts over the Fourth of July weekend, 8,923 delegates and 5,469 registered non-delegates to the annual National Education Association (NEA) convention were meeting in Atlanta to celebrate their political victories.
Continue reading →While most Americans were enjoying nonpolitical fireworks and cookouts over the Fourth of July weekend, 8,923 delegates and 5,469 registered non-delegates to the annual National Education Association (NEA) convention were meeting in Atlanta to gloat about their political victories.
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President Clinton has been bragging that the current budget deal, agreed to by the Republican Congress headed by Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott, includes the largest increase in federal spending on public schools in 30 years and the largest increase in federal spending on colleges in 50 years.
Continue reading →The Clinton Administration learned a big lesson from the defeat of its plan to take over the entire U.S. health care industry. Releasing its plan as a single 1,342-page bill in 1993 gave conservatives a large target to hit at and enabled them to identify at least a dozen fearsome features against which Americans could rally.
Continue reading →School-to-work (STW) is the most recent “reform” that is “restructuring” the nation’s public schools.
Continue reading →The most important duty of the 105th Congress is to protect America from judicial usurpation and restore our constitutional balance of powers among the three branches of our government.
Continue reading →If the education establishment wants to know why public schools don’t get much respect from our citizenry, they need look no further than an Op-Ed editorial in last week’s New York Times. This prestigious newspaper donated an expensive half page to complaints about the alleged problem of “censorship” in public schools.
Continue reading →The phrase “New World Order” was not invented by President George Bush, but it was popularized by him in 1990 in order to resuscitate the then-moribund United Nations and make it a sponsor of his Gulf War. Like Saddam Hussein, the New World Order concept survived the Gulf War intact.
Continue reading →Topping the list of worries in the Washington Post survey, identified by a whopping 62 percent of respondents, was this: “The American educational system will get worse instead of better.”
Continue reading →The NEA Convention had three times as many delegates as the Democratic National Convention, and 91% of the NEA delegates voted to endorse Clinton for reelection as President. That’s a higher approval rating than he enjoys in the Democratic Party.
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