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• Race to the Top reforms pass state legislature

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 611
  A number of education reform bills designed to make Michigan eligible for hundreds of millions of dollars in federal aid under the Obama administration’s Race to the Top initiative were passed by the state legislature on Saturday and sent to Gov. Granholm for her signature. The five-bill package of reforms ...
  4 days ago

• Teachers’ Unions Are Washington’s Fat Cats

  
  Big Government — Authority: 815
  We know how liberals, particularly those in the education establishment, like to say that Corporate America dictates public policy through campaign contributions. A new report , prepared by the Center for Responsive Politics and the National Institute on Money in State Politics, does a good job of dispelling that ...
  1 week ago

• Ominous Omnibus: Spending Bill Jeopardizes Opportunity Scholarships

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 732
  Yesterday, members of Congress released the text of their $446.8 billion spending measure – the Omnibus Appropriations bill – which will likely be enacted before December 18. To the dismay of low-income parents in the District of Columbia, the omnibus also contains language seriously jeopardizing the D.C. ...
  2 weeks ago

• AFT’s Randi Weingarten: Schools, Unions Best Agents for ‘Social Justice’

  
  Big Government — Authority: 815
  AFT President Randi Weingarten may have inadvertantly put her finger on one of the major problems with public education today. During an Oct. 28  forum at the Center for American Progress, Weingarten told the assembled panel that teachers unions, along with the general labor movement and the nation’s public ...
  2 weeks ago

• D.C. Schools Chief Michelle Rhee Targets ‘Sacred Cow’ of Tenure

  
  Big Government — Authority: 815
  If President Obama is really serious about education reform, he ought to consider putting D.C. school Chancellor Michelle Rhee in charge of the effort. This lady is not afraid of a major challenge, as evidenced by her latest brawl with the AFT. Rhee is courageously targeting the sacred cow of teachers unions – ...
  4 weeks ago

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