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On April 1, Texans for Greg Abbott released “Spending, Not Solutions,” a web ad highlighting the runaway spending in Sen. Wendy Davis’ proposed education plan for Texas. Not that anything has changed since Breitbart Texas reported on Davis’ pricy pre-kindergarten

Indiana recently made headlines by signing legislation to dump the Common Core State Standards. Already, Dr. Sandra Stotsky has questioned if Indiana is replacing the Common Core with the Common Core–one of the program’s most outspoken critics. She was also the

Last October, Michelle Malkin blogged on the progressive P-20 agenda in response to Oregon’s controversial Teaching from Birth to Graduate School. This was about the collection of student data through the state longitudinal database system (SLDS). This system is set

IRVING, TEXAS–Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were in Dallas on Monday for the inaugural Globalization of Higher Education Conference.  Bush and Clinton spoke separately at the private event co-organized by Bush.  According

The Office of the Attorney General Greg Abbott announced Wednesday in a press release obtained by Breitbart Texas that it obtained temporary restraining orders and froze the assets of two purported home school academies both allegedly claiming to be accredited

FT. WORTH, TEXAS–Konni Burton, the favored conservative running for Senate District 10 will kick off her run-off election campaign with a community rally to promote #TakeBackSD10. Senator Ted Cruz is also expected to attend at Stockyards Station in Fort Worth this Wednesday,

There was a modicum of friendly coverage on Senator Wendy Davis’ (D-Fort Worth) appearance at the SXSWedu 2014 conference in Austin last week. No doubt, she was a vision in beige with matching boots and four education planks on her

AUSTIN, TEXAS–TAMSA (Texans Advocating for Meaningful Student Assessment) is the mom-pack posing as the grassroots on the Texas education advocacy front that Breitbart Texas reported flew under the radar when working with elected officials Representative Jimmy Don Aycock (R-Killen) and

Breitbart Texas recently exposed attacks against Texas parents, every day concerned moms and dads who were questioning why Common Core books and worksheets were showing up in Texas classrooms. Why was this happening at all?  Texas said no to the Common

AUSTIN, TEXAS–Texas House representative Jimmie Don Aycock  (R-Killeen ) commended curious tactics used by TAMSA (Texans Advocating for Meaningful Student Assessment) in passing House Bill 5 (HB 5) during the 83rd Legislative Session. He told an audience at this week’s SXSWedu

AUSTIN, TEXAS–David Coleman, president and CEO of the College Board, announced a partnership between the College Board and The Atlantic, the progressive periodical Wednesday at the SXSWedu 2014 conference.  He said, “The Atlantic has a proud history as a home

AUSTIN, TEXAS–Every year, the education and technology communities converge in Austin for the SXSWedu conference. It is a four day series of speakers and seminars that their website calls “the platform for education’s most energetic and innovative leaders from all backgrounds

“Does a school district using Common Core in any way to teach state standards violate the law?”  That was the question asked by Senator Dan Patrick (R-Houston), Chairman of the Senate Education Committee. The senator asked in a December 2013

Frisco ISD is no stranger to big, bold school bonds. In 2006, the taxpayers passed a measure for $798 million to accommodate growth. If passed, this new bond will rank eighth-largest in state history, according to Texas Bond Review Board, a state

TEXAS–Concerned suburban Dallas dad Andrew Bennett spent the past three months raising questions about Common Core materials coming home from the Northwest Independent School District (NISD) middle school.  Although Texas did not adopt the Common Core State Standards Initiative, it

The Common Core-aligned practice field tests are coming to American public schools in April; but it is only in preparation for their official launch in Spring 2015. This year’s tests will not even be graded, according to the Smarter Balanced Assessment

Mayday! Mayday! SOS! All nouns on deck!  Man the semantics!  Fire up the phrases!  Don’t shoot till you see the whites of the “I’s”. You, over there, grab a round of idioms. Load up on similes and, if you do nothing

Remember when MSNBC’s  Melissa Harris Perry enraged a nation in that infamous MSNBC promo where she said, at “we’ve always had kind of a private notion of children?,” adding “we haven’t had a very collective notion of ‘These are our

Texas bans Common Core was the headline read around the nation on June 10, 2013 when Governor Rick Perry signed HB 462, the legislation that was supposed to impede the use of the federally led education mandate, the Common Core

House Bill 5 (HB 5) is the education legislation that created the new Texas College and Career Readiness Standards (CCRS) during the 83rd Legislative Session. Since becoming law, HB 5’s been kicking up a lot of controversy.  For starters, HB

Every generation has a defining issue and no issue more defines a generation than how it educates its children.  Education influences the future, a society, its culture.  History repeatedly teaches us the same lesson: freedom and liberty breed a very

In Common Core and other federal education matters, no name stirs up more controversy than inBloom, the 2013 nonprofit rebrandedfrom predecessor Smart Learning Collaboration (SLC).  Originally launched with nine states on board, inBloom has been accused of everything from collecting to tracking

Outraged parents. Fleeing teachers. Anxiety-ridden and medicated students. Fuzzy math. Crazy historyassignments posted on Facebook. Longitudinal databases. Silencedcommunity members at school board meetings in YouTube footage.Newfangled public school pathways of college and career readiness underthe banner of “STEM” (science, technology, engineering and math)