The White House has announced that President Obama and his family will spend another Christmas vacation in Hawaii. The Obamas will leave Washington, D.C. for 17 days on Friday, December 19 and will return on January 4, said spokesman Josh
Jeb Bush’s recent announcement that he will “explore” a presidential run in 2016 has led Time to pronounce the “one issue that will complicate his campaign” is Common Core. “Common Core now represents a kind of shorthand among Republicans,” writes
Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) has told New York health insurance companies they must cover sex-change operations and other treatments considered to be “medically necessary” to attempt to change a man or woman’s sex. The New York Times reports that Cuomo
Common Core champion John King has resigned his post as the New York State education commissioner to take a job as senior adviser to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan. “John is an extraordinary leader who has dedicated his life to
The Zinn Education Project, which supports the use of revisionist historian Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, is revving up a campaign based on its claim of having exposed the Koch Brothers’ sponsorship of the Bill of
Sen. David Vitter’s (R-LA) office told Breitbart News on Sunday that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) blocked out legislation attached to the “CRomnibus” bill that would have stopped the federal government from mandating that states “adopt specific academic standards,
The severe unpopularity of Obamacare has led the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to announce a partnership with technology company PayNearMe to reach what it refers to as the “financially underserved” and others who use mainly cash to
Among the numerous issues with the development and content of the CRomnibus bill is its failure to address some of the major concerns of the pro-life base of the Republican Party. As observed by Sarah Torre at The Daily Signal, the
Though school officials, nutritionists, parents, and students have decried First Lady Michelle Obama’s school lunch program, the $1 trillion CRomnibus (part “continuing resolution” and part “omnibus”) does not include relief from the unpopular meals standards after all. Daren Bakst at The
Those who study marriage trends in the United States are disappointed to hear that the U.S. Census Bureau is contemplating the elimination of questions about marriage from the American Community Survey (ACS). As PolitiFact reports, the ACS provides researchers with a very
When a pro-life family in Connecticut found that their state Obamacare exchange only offered plans that included abortion coverage, they filed a lawsuit against federal and state officials because they could not purchase a plan that did not require its
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House Democrats will get their way on omitting an attachment to a spending bill that would have permitted corporations to possibly sidestep ObamaCare’s contraceptive coverage rules. As reported by Politico, a senior Democratic source said House conservatives had requested that
The president of the premier organization that serves to promote and defend faithful Catholic education says Catholic dioceses that have adopted or adapted the Common Core standards have fallen into “a trap” that makes it difficult to see the “significant
On its Fox News show, The Wall Street Journal editorial board referred to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush as “very, very conservative” and expressed disbelief that conservative voters are not getting behind him as a presidential contender. On the Journal
Madeline Scotto, a 100-year-old math teacher at Brooklyn’s St. Ephrem’s School, had some things to say about the Common Core math methods. As Scotto told Business Insider, “When I saw the other day what a teacher was doing to get
This past week, possible GOP 2016 presidential contender Jeb Bush doubled down on his support for the Common Core standards, scolding conservative critics of the controversial education reform by stating that he had “lost patience” with them and telling them
First Lady Michelle Obama said Thursday that college “has to be for everyone,” and that students who enter college are often the ones who can afford to go and have been “shepherded through every step of the process.” In various
With reports of more parents making the decision to remove their children from traditional school environments to homeschool them instead, many veterans of home education are willing to offer their tips, suggestions, and responses to the question: How do I
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that 18 percent of all pregnancies in the United States end in abortion, a finding CDC describes as a new “low.” The agency encourages the use of
National student pro-life organization Students for Life of America (SFLA) announced Tuesday the launch of a new website to enhance its unique pregnancy resource program to assist students who are pregnant, parenting, or are birth mothers in finding help. According
The parents of a 19-year-old young man have posted his “birth” announcement in an Australian newspaper following his sex change. As reported at itv.com, the notice, which appeared in The Courier Mail in Queensland and has been shared widely on social
The plaintiffs in a lawsuit that represents a landmark effort to reestablish the right of individual teachers and other public employees to decide for themselves whether to join and pay dues to a union are one step closer to having
Louisiana U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R) has abruptly changed his position on the Common Core standards, and now states he opposes the controversial education reform initiative. In an email sent to Breitbart News from the Senator’s office, Vitter, a candidate
The Circuit Court for Cole County, Missouri has temporarily blocked the state from paying membership fees to the federally funded Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC), an interstate consortium that is developing tests aligned with the Common Core standards. As reported by Anne
