Dr. Susan Berry

Though many parent activist groups fighting the Common Core standards are comprised of both Republican and Democrat voters, Republican parents with children in public schools are sharply turning against the controversial nationalized standards. According to a new Gallup poll, 58 percent

Incumbent Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) told WABI TV5 that he is fearful what has happened in Massachusetts–slipping from the nation’s top education spot to seventh place–as a result of the Common Core standards, will also happen in Maine. “First

Filings by Connecticut’s Democratic Party show that it has funneled money into the state senate race of Ted Kennedy Jr. (D), the son of the United States senator and the nephew of President John F. Kennedy, through a loophole inserted

The first target of the IRS to testify before the House regarding the federal agency’s delay and obstruction of his group’s application for tax-exempt status says the U.S. District Court’s dismissal last Thursday of a lawsuit filed by Linchpins of

An atheist group is planning to distribute a pamphlet in several Florida public high schools that depicts an illustration of a cartoon Bible sexually assaulting a young woman. According to a report by Brittany Hughes at CNSNews.com, the Freedom From

A retired army chaplain has shared in a letter why he is opposed to compromising the position that America is an exceptional nation, whether in the Common Core standards or the new Advanced Placement U.S. History (APUSH) framework. Heidi Wolfgang,

Billionaire Tom Steyer’s climate change super-PAC, NextGen Climate Action, has targeted Colorado Republican U.S. Senate candidate Cory Gardner for his support of a “personhood” measure that would give legal rights to humans beginning at conception. As The Hill reports, NextGen

A young mother from North Carolina is asking for prayers for her baby, born four months prematurely, at less than a pound, and the size of a cell phone.  As Fox 8 WGHP reports, Adilynn Renee is now four months

Though Louisiana U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R) continues to support the Common Core standards, he has sent a letter to the state Department of Education superintendent urging the state to halt designating the Common Core-aligned Eureka Math program as the

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy’s order to quarantine all travelers from West Africa, even if they are symptom-free of the Ebola virus, has led to nine individuals who traveled to that region being held under quarantine. An order signed by Malloy

An infectious disease expert has stated that the test used to detect the Ebola virus in humans has a fatal flaw: the results will be negative until enough of the virus is built up in the person’s body. As CBN

In a column at Bloomberg Politics, David Weigel expresses some amazement that Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY), a “safe Democratic governor,” would join conservatives in the war against the Common Core standards. But, in fact, Cuomo, who has been a staunch

The Girl Scouts USA has just ended its 53rd Convention amid sharply declining membership numbers, serious financial problems, cookie boycotts due to the organization’s known ties to Planned Parenthood, and now, the threat that those who want the group to retain its

When Republican and Democrat Governors Bill Haslam (R-TN) and John Hickenlooper (D-CO) got together with the Denver Chamber of Commerce in Nashville Friday, the discussion turned to the idea that it does not matter what states call their “high” and

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) said Connecticut Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley understands that incumbent Gov. Dannel Malloy’s (D-WFP) “failed policies” have caused the weakened economy in that state. As the Associated Press (AP) reports, Jindal was in West Hartford,

In an updated policy, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is recommending long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs), such as hormonal implants, intrauterine devices (IUDs), Depo-Provera injections, and combined oral contraceptives for teenage girls. “Contraception is a pillar in reducing adolescent pregnancy

Though Beltway pundits once laughed off the notion that the school initiative known as the Common Core standards would be a deciding factor in the 2014 elections, New York State residents are trying to determine if their frustration with the

The initial test results of a Yale graduate student who developed Ebola-like symptoms have come back negative, Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) announced just before 5:00 p.m. EDT Thursday. YNHH must still wait for official confirmation of the test results from

The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said Thursday that the first Dallas nurse to contract the Ebola virus while treating a Liberian man who later died will be transferred to a research center in Bethesda,

A graduate student at Yale University in Connecticut is being treated at Yale-New Haven Hospital for symptoms similar to those found in Ebola victims after returning from Liberia on Saturday. According to the New Haven Register, the student was admitted to the

The latest Pew Research Center Religion & Public Life Project survey, published in September, finds that party identification among Catholics is strongly correlated with race and ethnicity.  While white Catholics are leaning more toward the Republican Party, at 53 percent,

On Saturday, a rally that had been organized by Jeffco Students for Change in hopes of firing up further student opposition to the conservative-led Jefferson County (JeffCo), Colorado board of education, was poorly-attended and mostly by adults who attempted to

A new ad released by New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen’s (D) re-election campaign attacks Republican challenger Scott Brown for supporting a law that “forces” women considering an abortion to view photos of developing unborn babies, reports The Washington Post. “In

An Alabama mother claims her five year-old daughter was forced to sign a “safety contract” at school without her mother’s knowledge after the little girl was in trouble for reportedly pretending a crayon was a gun and “shooting” it at