Rep. Foxx: Reduce the Federal Footprint in America’s Classrooms
Rep. Virginia Foxx promotes the the Student Success Act, which would get Washington out of the business of running schools.
Tag: Education
Practicality Vs. Utopia In 2016
Don’t tell me what degrees you’ve earned, show me what you’ve done (and can do). No number of credentials can create jobs where opportunity and demand do not exist. American companies are increasingly turning to outsourcing and imported labor for high-tech jobs because they don’t want to pay what American college graduates demand, or don’t find their work ethic appealing.
Snow Job: D.C.-Area Schools Closed Again After Minor Storm
A few inches of snow leads to two days off — and counting — for Fairfax County school students.
Abbott: Texas Must Double the Budget for Border Security
Texas Governor Greg Abbott delivered his first State of the State Address to a joint session of the Texas Legislature and a packed gallery in the Texas House Chamber. During his address, the new governor laid out his agenda for
Tax Payers on the Hook for Almost 5,000 NY Teachers with Six-Figure Pensions
A new report finds that nearly 5,000 New York teachers are being paid six-figure pensions courtesy of tax payers.
Paranoid China Attempts To Ban Western Ideas From College Campuses
The easy joke to make, upon learning that China’s authoritarian rulers are trying to ban Western ideas (other than communism, of course) from college campuses, is to say that they are only trying to accomplish what American universities already did forty years ago.
Harvard Puts Ban on Professors Having Sex With Undergrads
After 379 years as one of America’s premiere institutes of higher learning, Harvard University has now put a total ban on professors having sex with students.
ISIS Burns Books at Mosul Libraries, Universities
The Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) continues to purge anything they deem to defy Islam in Mosul, Iraq, which they captured in June 2014. In December, they raided the Central Library of Mosul to destroy all non-Islamic books.
Thousands of School Choice Advocates Rally at Texas Capitol
Supporters of school choice gathered at the Texas Capitol on Friday to send a message to Legislators: they want education reform, and they want it now. A bustling, diverse crowd of students, parents, teachers, elected officials and other reform advocates — and even a marching band — enjoyed a festive atmosphere as they listened to speeches, sang and danced, and then lined up to enter the Capitol to take their message directly to their elected representatives. Breitbart Texas was at the scene, and spoke to a number of the enthusiastic attendees of the rally.
Texas Lobbyist Withdraws Registration So Her State Rep Dad Can Keep Committee Chair
The daughter of a Texas State Representative has withdrawn her registration as a lobbyist, after an outcry over the potential for conflicts of interest between her work lobbying for education clients and her father’s role as chair of the House Public Education Committee. The announcement was made on a Friday afternoon, just two days after a Breitbart Texas article describing the conflict.
Obamacare Cutting Substitute Teachers From Texas Classrooms
A substitute teacher is not necessarily someone who most people think of as a full-time employee but school districts are grappling with the reality that the federal government considers anyone who works an average of 30 week hours as one. As a full-time employee, they are eligible for employer provided health insurance coverage in a company of 50 full-time employees or more, as mandated through the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare.
Op-Ed: It’s Time for School Choice in Texas
When he was inaugurated as the new Lieutenant Governor last week, Dan Patrick spoke about his three top priorities in this legislative session: reducing property and business taxes, securing the border, and enacting school choice. All of these policies have widespread support in Texas, and especially among the grassroots Republicans who gave Texas’ leaders their power in the 2014 elections. This bold agenda should provide focus and achievable goals for legislators as they begin their work during the 84th legislative session.
‘No Child Left Behind’ Waiver At Risk in Texas
Education Commissioner Michael Williams is bracing for the possibility that Texas may lose its No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waiver. State and federal education officials are not seeing eye-to-eye on educator evaluations but is that a bad or good thing?
School Makes Kids Drop Pants After Feces Found on Gym Floor
A Texas grade school is under fire for subjecting kids to an underwear search after teachers found feces on a gym floor.
Questions Raised About Lobbyist Daughter of Texas House Education Chair
The increased prominence of a Texas State Representative’s daughter as a lobbyist on education issues is raising questions about the propriety of him serving as chair of the House Public Education Committee.
1,000 Texans Expected to March for School Choice in Austin
An estimated 1,000 Texans will march in the Texas Rally for School Choice that will be held on the south steps of the State Capitol building in Austin on Friday, January 30 at 10 a.m. This is one of the many events being held during the fifth annual National School Choice Week that kicked off on Sunday, January 25, and will run through Saturday, January 31.
California Schools Teach Skeptical Parents the Common Core ‘New Math’
California teachers are attempting to lure parents into supporting Common Core by teaching them how to do the program’s infamous “new math” themselves.
New Jersey Student Viciously Attacks Teacher for Confiscating Cell Phone
Shocking video of a student violently attacking a New Jersey teacher has been posted on social media. It shows an out of control student incensed because the teacher took away his cell phone in class.
Lt. Governor Appoints Pro-School Choice Senator to Chair Texas Education Committee
State Senator Larry Taylor (R-Friendswood) was appointed by Lt. Governor Dan Patrick as the new Chairman of the Senate Public Education Committee in Austin on January 23, 2015.
‘School Calendar Choice Act’ Strives To Be Step Towards Public School Local Control
As his first piece of legislation, state Senator Van Taylor (R-Plano), introduced Senate Bill 296 or the “School Calendar Choice Act,” which would toss out the state’s requirement that school districts begin their school year following the fourth Monday in
Battle Over Books Reignites in Texas High School
In Dallas County, the Highland Park Independent School District (ISD) has been engaged in a battle over the high school English literature books that began back in September, ironically during National Banned Books Week. At issue were seven novels that parents had objections to their content which, by December, seemed to have been sorted out and things simmered down. However, at the January 20 school board meeting, tempers flared right back up in a big way over one re-approved novel and a previously suspended nonfiction title.
Media Misrepresents Poverty Rate of US Children by More Than Double
In a breathless, Drudge Report-linked headline, the Washington Post reported last week that the “Majority of U.S. public school students are in poverty.” A Huffington Post piece by Rebecca Klein, published 12 minutes earlier, sported a similar headline, “More Than Half Of American Schoolchildren Now Live In Poverty.” The only problem with these headlines, and the stories beneath them, is that they aren’t true—not even close.
A Year On from Trojan Horse, British Children Still at Risk of Radicalisation
Nearly a year on from the exposure of the ‘Trojan Horse’ scandal in which hard-line Islamists were found to have taken over a number of schools in Birmingham, children at those schools are still at risk of radicalisation, the chief
Five Facts About Illegal Aliens
According to a study at the Migration Policy Institute, three million of the USA’s 11.4 million Illegal immigrants live in California, sixty percent of whom live in Los Angeles County and nearby surrounding counties.
Meet the Radical Professor at the Center of the Controversy for Islamic Prayers at Duke University
It all started when a University alumnus made a $3 million dollar donation to fund the position of Director of Islamic Studies at Duke University. Bettye Martin Musham, who gifted the Islamic Studies Center with the vast sum of money, said that she was convinced that it was the right thing to do after hearing a lecture on the meaning of jihad. Musham said that she and her husband would later become “hooked with the importance of Islam.”
