New York Students Riot Against Proposed $300 Tuition Hike
Students at the City University of New York rioted yesterday in protest of the school’s planned tuition hike. The proposed change: an extra $300 per… Read More
Pennsylvania Working to Expand School Choice Options for Families
Last month, the Pennsylvania State Senate passed a landmark bill to allow children in the bottom 5 percent of schools to receive scholarships to attend… Read More
Even in Liberal California, School Choice Gets Thumbs Up
A new poll shows that in one of the most liberal of states–California–charter schools are impressing voters by a wide margin, particularly among Latino parents. The Los… Read More
Without Fanfare of Ohio or Wisconsin, Idaho Enacts Sweeping Reforms
Voters head the polls in Ohio today to decide the fate of collective bargaining reforms for government workers. It’s a high-profile referendum on a controversial… Read More
Morning Bell: Obama’s Student Loan Gift to Occupy Wall Street
In the 2008 election, Senator Barack Obama reached out to young Americans with a fresh message that appealed to their dissatisfaction with the nation’s political… Read More
Morning Bell: The Truth About Public School Teacher Pay
Last winter, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) traveled his state, holding a series of townhalls in which he touted a significant but politically unpopular… Read More
Poor Student Achievement Shows Centralized Education Policy Has Failed
Tomorrow, the highly anticipated math and reading scores of our nation’s 4th and 8th graders will be released as part of the 2011 National Assessment… Read More
Washington’s Halloween Tricks for Education
Just in time for Halloween, big government education advocates are rolling out frightening new education policies. On the K-12 front, Senators Tom Harkin (D–IA) and… Read More
Education Union Lobbyists Game the System in Illinois
No such thing as a free lunch? Not if you’re a union lobbyist in Illinois. As the Chicago Tribune reported: Two lobbyists with no prior… Read More
Pushing Basket-Weaving College Loan Debt onto Working-Class Taxpayers
President Obama’s “blame conservatives” rhetoric was on full display yesterday as he described his plan to provide relief to students overburdened by loan debt that… Read More
Senate Committee on Track to Make No Child Left Behind Even Worse
If you think No Child Left Behind (NCLB) isn’t working, what Senators Tom Harkin (D–IA) and Mike Enzi (R–WY) have in mind for the nation’s… Read More
Obama’s Upcoming Student Loan Announcement
On Wednesday, President Obama is expected to make an announcement regarding student loan debt. He is expected to propose relief for students struggling to make… Read More
Morning Bell: Biden and Reid’s “Jobs Bill” Farce
If you listen to Vice President Joe Biden, the most effective way to prevent rape and murder is more federal stimulus spending. In the Vice… Read More
Online Chat on No Child Left Behind
One of the main focuses of the Senate this week has been the re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), known in this iteration as… Read More
Morning Bell: The Backdoor Attempt to Rewrite No Child Left Behind
Remember when then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said of Obamacare that Congress will “have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in… Read More
No Child Left Behind: 100 ESEA Amendments and a Plea for Transparency
At the Heritage Blogger’s Briefing today, Senator Rand Paul urged Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Tom Harkin to delay the mark-up of his… Read More
Sen. Rand Paul on Occupy Wall Street, Repealing No Child Left Behind
The latest iteration of No Child Left Behind comes before a Senate committee tomorrow with bipartisan support. But if Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has anything… Read More
Senate No Child Left Behind Proposal: More Big Government for Schools
Last Tuesday, Senator Tom Harkin (D–IA) introduced a much-anticipated proposal to rewrite No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and has announced that committee markup on the… Read More
Steve Jobs’ Belief in School Choice
The death of Steve Jobs last week captured the attention of people not only around the nation but around the globe. While Jobs and his… Read More
The Future of School Choice
For decades now, spending on public education has been increasing significantly, while academic achievement has remained stagnant. What if, instead of pouring money into failing… Read More
States Need Comprehensive Education Reform, Not Waivers with Obama’s Strings Attached
While the House is moving to put greater control of education into the hands of parents, the Obama Administration is working to tighten the federal… Read More
Obama Waives Congress Away
“Congress hasn’t been able to do it, so I will.” With this bold statement, President Obama announced last Friday that he would unilaterally replace the… Read More
With Waivers, National Standards Anything but Voluntary
Supporters of the Common Core national standards push are becoming increasingly wary of Washington’s entanglement with what the Obama Administration has been trying to sell… Read More
Morning Bell: Obama Circumvents Congress on Education Policy
For the past few decades, the federal government has continuously increased its power over local schools, through funding with strings attached, with depressing results. Since… Read More
Wyoming Concerned with National Standards’ Federal Strings
Wyoming is having second thoughts about adopting Common Core education standards. Concerned with the federal strings that are beginning to appear, some state legislators are… Read More
President Obama Mistakes Bi-Partisan Distaste for NCLB for a Mandate to Rewrite
President Obama just delivered a speech and announced that states will now be eligible to receive waivers to get out from under the onerous provisions… Read More
Waiving Along Failure
President Barack Obama is slated to give a speech tomorrow lauding the benefits of granting waivers to states for the burdensome provisions of No Child Left Behind (NCLB)…. Read More
Senators’ No Child Left Behind ‘Fix’ Is on Washington’s Terms
Decade after decade, the federal role in education has grown. And decade after decade, this growth has failed to increase student achievement. The most recent… Read More
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) Urges Sec. Duncan to Obey the Constitution
Senator Marco Rubio (R–FL) urged Education Secretary Arne Duncan to remember the constitutional limitations placed on the executive branch in a letter to the Department… Read More
“Pass This Bill” Not the Answer to Nation’s Education Woes
About $60 billion more federal education dollars. That’s President Obama’s latest proposal to fix schools—this time in the form of his $447 billion jobs bill…. Read More
