A new Columbus Dispatch poll has found that Ohio voters oppose the Common Core standards, 43-26 percent, while 31 percent don’t know their opinion on the controversial education initiative. According to the Dispatch, the margin of sampling error for the
A leftist group funded by top gay activist bundlers for Obama’s 2012 campaign coordinated both a “well planned and financed” attack against San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone for his decision to speak during the March for Marriage in Washington,
Though the developers and supporters of the Common Core standards have repeatedly said the purpose of the controversial education initiative is to close the achievement gap between low-income black and Hispanic and white middle-class students, an online Hispanic publication doubts
In a letter to President Obama dated September 11th, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said his state may apply for a federal pre-kindergarten grant of up to $15 million, as long as Obama assures him the funds are not linked to
On Friday, a Colorado elementary school student was forced to take a state literacy skills test by his teacher after his parents had requested that he be opted out of federal and state testing. Jess Loban of Castle Rock, Colorado
The Satanic Temple says it will open 15 new chapters nationwide, as well as several internationally. In an interview with Aleteia, Jex Blackmore, a leader of the Satanic Temple’s new Detroit chapter and a member of the group’s executive ministry
A Lebanese Christian leader who was a keynote speaker at a Washington, D.C. conference during which Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was booed for his public support of Israel said President Obama told him during a later meeting that he would
While in a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Wednesday, former Reagan Secretary of Education Bill Bennett put out what was described as the “Conservative Case for Common Core,” he admitted he is paid by a lobbying firm for his continued
An email press release for In Defense of Christians (IDC), an organization that convened a three-day summit in Washington D.C. reportedly dedicated to bringing awareness to the persecution of Christians in the MidEast, states that five patriarchs from the conference–many
Questions surround a Washington, D.C. conference whose stated purpose was to gather lawmakers, Eastern and Western churches, community leaders and a variety of Christian groups to confront the problem of genocide being perpetrated against Christians by ISIS. According to Alana
Writing at the Weekly Standard, Frederick Kagan and Kimberly Kagan assert that, during President Obama’s announcement of his plan to bring a counter-terrorism strategy to an insurgency fight, he said two things that are not true. Observing that ISIL is
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF) has been “derecognized” by California State University (CSU) as a campus organization at all of the 23 schools in the state system. According to Caleb Bonham, writing at Campus Reform, IVCF has been derecognized because the
In keeping with its new campaign that urges its readers to vote for candidates who share their top concerns – abortion and free contraception – Cosmopolitan has announced its first political picks of the electoral season, and they are Alison
The video below was recorded by a single mother of four in Louisiana and posted to the Facebook page of Stop Common Core in Louisiana. Jimmie Richard gave Breitbart News permission to publish the video of her second-grade daughter, who
Results of a new Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday find incumbent Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy (D-WFP) trailing his challenger, Republican Tom Foley, by six points, 46-40 percent. Researchers surveyed 1,304 likely voters with a margin of error of +2.7 percentage
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Monday that two Planned Parenthood chapters, two United Way organizations and Ascension Health, the nation’s largest Catholic hospital system, are among the 90 nonprofit groups serving as “navigators” that will receive
In an address Monday at Atlanta’s Booker T. Washington High School, while discussing the importance of education, first lady Michelle Obama shared with the students “some insights” that rich kids already possess. “Do you hear what I’m telling you? Because
Citing its theme of “God did not design a mother’s womb to be the baby’s tomb,” St. Stephen’s Cathedral Church of God in Christ, in San Diego, has announced that it will hold memorial services for aborted babies and children
After embracing the Common Core standards and their associated testing in his state, Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy (D-WFP) is now up for re-election in November and says he wants students in Connecticut to spend less time taking tests. According to
Common Core opponents in Louisiana have sent an open letter to U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R) asking him to end his surprising support for the controversial standards. Vitter stunned his conservative supporters last month with his high praise for
Proponents of the Common Core standards are hailing educational theorist E.D. “Don” Hirsch as a founding father of the education initiative and one who laid the intellectual groundwork for the controversial reform. The problem is that Hirsch himself says, “I
According to a new report published by the Boston-based research group Pioneer Institute, the Common Core math standards will not prepare U.S. students for advanced math classes that, consequently, will see lower enrollments. This situation, the report’s authors say, will
Two mothers from New York State who began discussing online the negative effects of the Common Core standards on their children have partnered to develop “Bracelets That Are NOT Common,” a project to raise awareness about the controversial education initiative.
The editor of Cosmopolitan says that the magazine will begin endorsing political candidates because she wants women to have control over having a child, “not a bunch of old white guys sitting in D.C.” As Politico reports, Cosmo editor-in-chief Joanna
Breitbart News Network joins American Principles Project and Cornerstone Action as co-sponsors of a forum that will focus on the principles of federalism as viewed by the Framers, the role of state elected officials in guarding against federal overreach, and
