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Contest would focus on teacher quality
The Obama administration is hoping competition combined with cash will encourage states and school districts to improve the nation’s teaching corps. Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Wednesday is expected to… Read more
Obama’s War on School Vouchers
In his State of the Union address last month, President Obama spoke about the importance of kids staying in school and even urged states to raise the dropout age to… Read more
Banner fundraising year for wealthy colleges
By Justin Pope – For the 99 percent of colleges, it was a pretty good fundraising year. For the 1 percent of super-wealthy elite, it was a much better one… Read more
Are ex-gays ‘really, really disgusting’?
Supt. blasts group determined legally protected class in 2009 ruling A spokesman for the school board in Montgomery County, Md., says the slurs against a minority group by the superintendent… Read more
Admissions 101: How badly do school test-tampering scandals hurt college applicants?
By Jay Mathews – D.C. schools officials have been narrowing and delaying what they say is an investigation of how more than 100 schools could have shown students mysteriously erasing… Read more
Parent Trigger proposal converts failing charters into neighborhood schools— Amazing report
By Valerie Strauss – Here’s the lead “story” from the new spring edition of a satirical Onion-esque publication designed for those of us who religiously follow education policy and choose… Read more
State Inspectors Searching Children’s Lunch Boxes: “This Isn’t China, Is It?”
A mother in Hoke County complains her daughter was forced to eat a school lunch because a government inspector determined her home-made lunch did not meet nutrition requirements. In fact,… Read more
Virginia House vote states life starts at conception
Delegates set up high-stakes battle with Senate The Virginia House of Delegates approved legislation Tuesday that would define life as beginning at conception, setting up a potential clash in the… Read more
Stephanopoulos a ‘paid Democratic hitman’
ABC host has previously undisclosed connections to Obama Former Bill Clinton presidential adviser Dick Morris accused ABC News commentator George Stephanopoulos of being a “paid Democratic hitman.” In a… Read more
WND reporter fired for exposing bank scandal
New York company reacts to money-laundering probe A series of investigative reports by WND senior staff writer Jerome Corsi on money-laundering charges by banking giant HSBC has resulted in some… Read more
