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Take Action to Stop Common Core in Nebraska

Our friends at LEAP (Liberty Education Advocacy Project) are organizing Nebraskans to take an active interest in our children’s education and protect local control of our schools by stopping Common Core. What is Common Core?  Click here to learn more. More information on how you can take action from LEAP’s Coordinator, Rachel Pinkerton: LEAP Members [...]

Labor, Education & Pensions Issues

AFP in LJS: Six-figure Salaries for School Administrators Too Much?

June 03, 2013 J,

Recently a local school administrator wrote an editorial bemoaning the fact their district would not be receiving an increase in taxpayer-funded state aid funding. We asked the question; with the Superintendent receiving compensation equal to $160-per-student is taxpayer money being wisely spent? Superintendent pay Wahoo Public Schools Superintendent Galen Boldt penned a letter critical of [...]

The Perils of Common Core

May 02, 2013 J,

Public education across the country is about to radically change, and most Americans aren’t even aware. That’s because the Obama Administration and special interests have been pushing a scheme called Common Core to nationalize educational standards under the public radar for years. One recent poll by the nonprofit organization, Achieve, found that 79% of voters said [...]

John Kerry’s State Department: Keystone XL is Safe

March 04, 2013 J,

Last week John Kerry’s State Department released a draft environmental impact study that finds it ‘very unlikely’ the Keystone XL pipeline would have an environmental impact. Read the State Department report here. Secretary Kerry’s State Department echoes previous statements and environmental reports produced by the Clinton State Department that confirm the safety of the Keystone [...]

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