[In order to place the proper emphasis on an investment in education] “…we have to break through our private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.” Thus sayeth Melissa Harris-Perry, the high and doctrinaire professor of political science at Tulane University, [...]
Georgia has been a right-to-work state for decades and is one of the nation’s five least unionized states. Currently, Georgia workers can voluntarily join a union and their dues are automatically withdrawn from their paychecks until the worker officially quits the union. Some government entities require or favor bidders who use union employees. “Card check,” [...]
Wow, have I got a deal for you! I’m the federal government and I’ll give you $400 million dollars to set up an education program that will cost you $585 million dollars to implement over 7 years. I’ll do this in exchange for virtually all of the control over your State’s education standards, curriculum and [...]
Legislation filed in the House and Senate Tuesday will expand the cap on Georgia’s successful tuition tax credit program while changing it in a fundamental way that amounts to a detrimental double dip into taxpayers wallets on behalf of a public education system that is already failing. The 2008 law allows individuals and corporations to [...]
Download the report here During his first term in office, President Ronald Reagan assembled some of the United States’ foremost educators to study the failures of the American school system and provide policy recommendations for reform. Chartered as the National Commission on Excellence in Education, the group published its findings in a 1983 report that [...]
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