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• A New Birth of Education Freedom - 01 Apr 2013
  posted in Columns

  As the nation has focused on the Supreme Court hearings on the constitutionality of same-sex marriage, news from the state of Indiana could prove far more important regarding the nation’s future. The Indiana Supreme Court has just ruled unanimously, 5-0, that Indiana’s school voucher program, signed into law in 2011, the most expansive school voucher [...]

• Pre-K Won’t Help Kids - 06 Mar 2013
  posted in Columns & Education

  President Obama ended his State of the Union speech on a warm-and-fuzzy note by calling for Pre-K programs for almost all children. The best thing he could do for pre-kindergarten children is to make sure he doesn’t hang trillions of dollars of debt around their necks, but that isn’t the route he is taking. Instead, [...]

• Public School Gives Out Obama T-shirts - 15 Feb 2013
  posted in Columns & Education

  Ok, I know there are some people who still get a bit offended when I talk about “government schools,” or “tax-funded indoctrination centers.” You can be honest. You think my outrage at the dramatic downward spiral of student standards, the censorship of even the barest symbols of God and country, the usurpation of parental roles [...]

• Public Schools are Teaching What? - 16 Jan 2013
  posted in Columns & Education & Videos

  The battle for humankind’s future must be waged and won in the public classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as the proselytizers of a new faith … – John Dunphy, “A Religion for a New Age” Obama has again added to his long train of abuses against We the People, this time in [...]

• Students in the Crosshairs of Public Education - 18 Dec 2012
  posted in Civil Liberties & Columns & Culture & Education & Videos

  “The battle for humankind’s future must be waged and won in the public classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as the proselytizers of a new faith…” – John Dunphy, “A New Religion for a New Age” Obama has again added to his long train of abuses against “We the People,” this time in [...]

• Many students don’t know what it takes to turn on the lights in their classrooms - 04 Dec 2012
  posted in Columns & Education & Energy & Environment

  When I went to grade school, one of the 1st field trips we took was to a hydro electric dam. After the hour ride, the bus parked and we were guided into a maze of machinery inside the main generating operation of a massive hydro electric dam. I never forgot that day, as the manger [...]

• Looking At Our Failing, Liberal, and Expensive Public Education System - 16 Apr 2012
  posted in Bureaucracy & Economy & Education & Gov't Subsidy & Spending & The Blog

  The graduate may swing his tassel to the left side of his cap, but what does he have to show for it? Has his degree gotten him anything outside of a pile of debt? Is he now better equipped to stand tall in the world and contribute to his community and society? Yesterday, Conservative Action [...]

• Report: Hundreds of Billions spent on K-12 Education gets only ‘Stagnant Test Scores’ - 15 Apr 2012
  posted in Bureaucracy & Education & Numbers & Spending & waste

  The following report was written by Neal McClusky and originally title “K-12 Subsidies” on DownsizingGovernment.org Overview: Federal control over K-12 education has risen dramatically in recent decades. Congress has increased funding for the schools while imposing layers of rules and regulations on local school districts. Federal expenditures for K-12 education have soared from $12.5 billion [...]

• Tennessee Tea Party Wants Schools to Be Nicer to Founding Fathers - 24 Jan 2012
  posted in Education & States & Tea Party

  The late comedian George Carlin used to say America was built on a double standard: “This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free.” We wonder how his joke would have sat with members of Tennessee’s tea party, which just presented state legislators with five priorities for action, including amending state laws governing [...]

• 18 St. Louis Schools Place Monitoring Devices on Students - 16 Jan 2012
  posted in Civil Liberties & Education & Privacy & Surveillance

  “What has always made the state of hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it his heaven.” – Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin What is replacing privacy? Planning (and absurdity). Missouri elementary schools plan on monitoring their students in and out of school, while they sleep and while they’re awake. Missouri’s [...]