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The Quiet Education Overhaul

Cindy — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 10:55:38 +0000

The Department of Education is using that windfall of funding and power to stage a significant overhaul of local schools; dangling grant money before cash-strapped states on the condition they adopt key pieces of the Obama education agenda. And this is all happening without public consideration, even though it means that parents [...]

The Quiet Education Overhaul

Cindy — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:04:24 +0000

Yesterday, President Obama delivered a major speech on education in an effort to garner support for his Race to the Top grant program and his push for national education standards and tests. The President’s remarks came on the heels of a speech delivered by Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Tuesday at the National Press [...]

Update on PTISD Bond for new Stadium

Cindy — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:33:33 +0000

As discussed at Pine Tree ISD School Board Meeting on July 12, 2010…

No decisions were made tonight as to the issue of Pirate Stadium. Pretty good crowd went home with nothing decided. There is a big push to reopen the stadium for this football season. It seems they will decide at a meeting next Tuesday whether to [...]

Arrogant Washington threatens Rick Perry and Texans’ right to Govern Themselves

Cindy — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:22:08 +0000

In one of the most outrageous displays of arrogance by Washington in recent memory – which is saying a lot, of course – the House Democrats have inserted specific language on top of $10 Billion in funding for education included in a War Supplemental bill targeted directly and solely at Texas – language that demands the money [...]

Prolonging Education’s Race to the Bottom

Cindy — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 02:57:22 +0000

In perhaps the President Obama’s most stealth campaign to date, the federal government has been slowly tightening its grip on the education sector to little fanfare. Rather than working through the democratic legislative process, this Administration has circumvented Congress to enact an ill-conceived education agenda that will weaken accountability, reduce transparency and minimize choice while only adding to [...]

Why National Standards Won’t Fix American Education: Misalignment of Power and Incentives

Cindy — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:05:18 +0000

American education needs to be fixed, but national standards and testing are not the way to do it. The problems that need fixing are too deeply ingrained in the power and incentive structure of the public education system, and the renewed focus on national standards threatens to distract from the fundamental issues. [...]

WHY FREER SCHOOLS ARE BETTER SCHOOLS

Cindy — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:29:30 +0000

President Obama’s proposed overhaul of No Child Left Behind is long overdue. Over the past decade the regime’s rigid metrics and penalties transformed schools into testing factories. Unfortunately, the White House proposal — which replaces NCLB’s legal sticks with new legal carrots — won’t come close to fixing America’s schools, says Philip K. Howard, chair of [...]

Texas Kicks Out Liberal Bias From Textbooks

Cindy — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:43:24 +0000

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Economic Stimulus Package Will Profoundly Impact Education

Cindy — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:31:52 +0000

On February 17, President Barack Obama signed the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (known as the Stimulus). Only three Republican senators voted for the bill. It passed the House without any Republican votes. The bill designates a total of $128.2 billion for education and job training. About $91 billion of that amount goes toward [...]

WHY TEXAS SKIPPED THE “RACE TO THE TOP”

Cindy — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:06:07 +0000

President Barack Obama’s $787 trillion failed stimulus included a $4.3 billion set aside for Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s “Race to the Top” fund. States that jump through the right Obama Administration hoops can win up to $750 million in stimulus cash.

But Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) announced that the Lone Star State will become the [...]