Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney promised during a private fundraiser in Florida on Sunday to try to do away with or consolidate several federal cabinet agencies, including the education and housing departments. (more)
What’s worse than the federal government distributing ground beef that may contain “pink slime” for school lunches? That the federal government has anything to do with school lunches. (more)
Time magazine begged me to participate in yesterday’s “What’s a Conservative?” symposium with Ann Coulter, Ken Blackwell, Grover Norquist, etc. But I said, “No! No, Time magazine! I’ll do this at The Daily Caller.” So here I am to respond. Time posed three questions: “What does a conservative believe?” “Is there a crisis in the conservative movement?” and “What’re the three most important action items for the next president?” I’ll leave the first two to conservatives (I’m a Manhattan moderate). But here are three things that the next president should do if he wants to make a real difference: (more)
Alan Rosenfeld — a 66-year-old disgraced typing teacher — hasn’t taught since he was accused of making inappropriate comments and leering at 8th grade girls in 2001, but still collects $100,049 a year from the city, the New York Post reports. (more)
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Friday morning it’s time to hike teacher salaries, up to $150,000 annually if possible. (more)
During tonight’s State of the Union address, President Obama will once again talk about his plans for higher education. And once again, those plans won’t be appropriately scrutinized. (more)
Top White House officials are trying to transmute three disastrous, government-created crises into an education platform for President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign. (more)
Campus activists are cheering a decision by Vermont Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to do away with a portion of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) reauthorization that would have required college students accused of sex-based infractions be tried under a lowered standard of proof. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Education Department is investigating whether Penn State failed to report incidents of sexual abuse on campus, as required by federal law. (more)
Two “clean energy companies” which Barack Obama and Harry Reid have touted as creators of “green energy jobs” have joined Solyndra on the growing list of federal loan recipients facing financial turmoil and default. And a new poll indicates that voters don’t support the idea of agenda-driven federal loans to chosen corporations. (more)
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told The Daily Caller on Monday that having children in school during the summer months is “the right thing to do” to compete with countries like China and India. (more)
Republican Sen. Rand Paul is working to hold up the ninth reauthorization of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act — now known as No Child Left Behind — set to take place Wednesday. The act is the “most expansive” piece of federal education legislation ever passed. (more)
HENNIKER, N.H. — Before a crowd of just over 100 Monday morning, congresswoman and presidential candidate Michele Bachmann took shots at Barack Obama, Rick Perry, the government’s management of Social Security funds, the U.S. Department of Education and the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters. (more)
When is 400,000 not 400,000? (more)
Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio wrote to Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Tuesday, criticizing an Obama administration plan to grant No Child Left Behind waivers to states that adopt national standards backed by the administration.“I am concerned,” Rubio’s letter says, “that the administration’s requirements for granting a waiver from NCLB would entail states having to adopt a federally-approved ‘college and career ready’ curriculum: either the national Common Core standards, or another federally-approved equivalent.” According to Rubio, the practice of granting conditional waivers is “detrimental to our country’s shared goal of educational success for every student.” And, he claims, it’s also against federal law. (more)
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) Thursday expressed concern to the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights over the sexual harassment guidance the department issued to colleges in April. (more)
The Obama administration will bypass Congress and give qualifying states a waiver from No Child Left Behind (NCLB) after reform of the education law stalled. (more)
A large organization of university professors voiced its opposition yesterday to a new Department of Education policy lowering the standard of guilt for sexual misconduct cases on university campuses. (more)
In one of the first major challenges of the application of Title IX’s three-point test in high schools, the American Sports Council (ASC) filed a lawsuit Thursday against the U.S. Department of Education (EdD). (more)
Pushing back against Obama administration efforts to help states sidestep some provisions of No Child Left Behind, Republicans said this week that a new report questions whether the Education Department has the authority to offer states waivers from parts of the law. (more)
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