Harry Mathews's Blog – February 2014 Archive (22)

By The Right Scoop  on Aug 30, 2013

This is outrageous and something Obama has always supported:

CNS NEWS – The Chicago Public Schools this year are mandating that the district’s kindergarten classes include sex education, fulfilling a proposal President Barack Obama supported in 2003 when he served in the Illinois state senate and later…

26 February 2014 The Report Card

Pelletier Family of West Hartford, CT

by Bill Korach www.thereportcard.org

There is a growing attitude on the part of government bureaucrats that YOUR child is really THEIR child. The frightening case of the Pelletier family of West Hartford, CT is illustrative of the “It Takes a Village” attitude of the bureaucracy. The Massachusetts…

"On February 8, 2014, at a meeting of the Jefferson County, Colorado school board, Superintendent Cindy Stevenson announced her early departure from the district before a room stacked with teacher union protesters. This announcement came mere months after a change in board leadership toward a more reform-minded board composition.

Union members became so unruly, that security ended the meeting early."…

2-20-14 WND

Two leaders of the Jefferson County, Colo., Parent Teacher Association, in the district where 12 students and a teacher were murdered by two seniors at Columbine High School in 1999, have been caught joking about guns and the school board.

A report from WatchdogWire, a project of the The Franklin Center to train…

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2-17-14 Bill Korach

Eva Moscowitz

Success Academy Charter School

By Bill Korach www.thereportcard.org

New York Mayor Bill De Blasio owes the Teacher’s Unions big time for his election. His down payment will be to shut down New York’s charter schools. Some of…

UPDATE — 2/18/14: After failing to return multiple requests for comment Monday, USC spokesman Wes Hickman told TheBlaze in a statement Tuesday that the school is “committed to academic freedom and a vigorous public discourse.”

“Our faculty are free to select texts for their courses and our students are encouraged to raise questions, challenge convention and develop their own ideas,” he added.

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A university-assigned textbook that appears to suggest…

Posted: 2014-02-17 EVNN

Dear Senators Yee, Begay, Bradley, Crandell, Farnsworth, Taylor, Melvin, Murphy, and Ward,

Education reforms in Israel: Let’s look at Sweden

Sun, Feb 16, 2014 

It is true that Sweden spends more public money than Israel per pupil; however, Israeli households pay much more than the Swedes.…

On February 5, 2014, by Scholastica (Gay) Cororaton, Research Economist

Student loans are one of the fastest rising sources of debt.  Student loans are of increasing concern in light of the regulations pertaining to qualified mortgages that require a consumer to have a debt to income ratio of no more than 43…

Posted: 2014-02-13

2-14-14

It’s official: Superintendent Jack Keegan and Assistant Superintendent Shane McCord resigned their positions in Gilbert Public Schools.

Dr. Keegan is out the door on March 7, 2014; McCord will stay until his contract ends on June 30, 2014. This signals opportunity for righting the ship that floundered under the Good Old Boys. Any deck chair rearranging will occur during the …

January 23rd, 2014 

The United Nations cultural agency has disgraced itself again, deciding at the last minute to postpone an exhibition of the 3,500-year relationship of the Jewish people to the Holy Land. This exhibition, co-sponsored by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, was due to open this past Monday at the Paris headquarters of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). But last week 22 Arab states sent a letter to UNESCO’s secretariat, protesting…

2-8-14   Arizona Freedom Alliance

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Teen Questionnaire

In order to help you the best we can, we would like you to answer the questions below. we ask all teenagers these questions because we feel these are things that affect your health and…

2-2-14 Kathleen McGrory Times/Herald Tallahassee

TALLAHASSEE — Polk County parents were apoplectic last year when they…

Posted on 20 January 2014 The Report Card

By Bill Korach www.thereportcard.org

PHILADELPHIA, January 17, 2014—The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) released…

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