By Kyle Olson
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WASHINGTON – High school students from Ithaca, New York’s Lehman Alternative Community School, as well as several area college students, reportedly were bused to Washington, DC and took part in a recent protest against the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline.
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By Victor Skinner
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BATON ROUGE, La. – Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is spelling out some ugly truths about teachers unions and their role in stifling school choice for American families.
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By Ashleigh Costello
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OLYMPIA, Wash. – Washington’s new law approving charter schools may be put on hold as the head of the state’s public school system raises concerns over the law’s constitutionality.
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By Ben Velderman
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WASHINGTON D.C. – Leaders of the Washington Teachers Union are a bit worried.
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By Ben Velderman
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The presidential election is only days away, but StudentsFirst Founder Michelle Rhee is holding out hope that President Barack Obama and GOP nominee Mitt Romney might still offer specific details about how they would improve the quality of the nation’s teaching corps. Read More »
By Kyle Olson
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – StudentsFirst, the organization launched by former Washington, D.C. schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee, has demonstrated its commitment to meaningful education reform by spending $500,000 to defeat Michigan’s Proposal 2, an initiative that would enshrine collective bargaining privileges for government employees in the state constitution.
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By Kyle Olson
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – In response to the growing outrage over the one-size-fits-all, top-down lunch menu regulations handed down by Michelle Obama and bureaucrats in Washington, DC, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack offered an incredible response: Let them eat snacks!
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By Kyle Olson
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – It shouldn’t come as any surprise that the Obama campaign is rolling out the red carpet for well-heeled interests like the National Education Association. But is it crossing the line by using taxpayer-funded resources, like the official residences?
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By Steve Gunn
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Some would say that a new teacher evaluation system that managed to weed out roughly 400 underperforming educators over the past three years is a bona fide success story.
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By Steve Gunn
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Not long ago, we received a message from a very upset public school teacher who said she wants everyone to “keep education out of politics.”
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By Steve Gunn
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Public school teachers are apparently embarrassed by the weak links in their profession who remain on school payrolls, year after year, despite their ineffectiveness in the classroom.
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By Kyle Olson
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – A chorus of Washington, D.C. Democrats are calling on Mayor Vincent Gray to resign amid allegations his campaign engaged in “underhanded deeds” to win his race against incumbent Mayor Adrian Fenty in 2010.
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By Steve Gunn
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LINCOLN, Neb. – Remember when patriotism came before politics?
Perhaps your father was a laborer and mine was in management. Yours may have voted Democratic while mine voted Republican. Certainly they disagreed about policies and priorities, just like we do today.
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By Kyle Olson
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OAKLAND, Calif. – There’s nothing like government spending money on lobbyists to secure more money from a different level of government. But that’s precisely what Oakland, California schools are poised to do.
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By Steve Gunn
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – America’s public education system is “crumbling,” and the 2012 presidential candidates have a responsiblity to address that issue in greater detail, according to the College Board, a non-profit student advocacy organization.
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By Ashleigh Costello
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ALPINE, Utah – Cole Kelly, a teacher and athletic director for the Alpine School District in Utah, testified in February in favor of proposed legislation that would penalize school districts for not granting all teacher organizations—not just unions—equal access to teachers.
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By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
OLYMPIA, Wash. – Comedian Jerry Seinfeld once observed that ending a bad relationship “is like knocking over a Coke machine. You can’t do it in one push. You’ve got to rock it back and forth a few times, and then it goes over.”
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