The $29,409 per-pupil cost for “free” public education in D.C. is a perfect example, and the future trend seems clear: spending on public schools will continue to increase and the academic results will continue to decline.
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PBS: Re-Educating America’s Schoolchildren, Thanks to Your Contributions
Although their educational materials claim to be objective, the truth is that their unrelenting ideological slant that promotes the politics of protest and civil disobedience is aimed at re-educating children into becoming far-left activists.
Pro-life group plans flash mob protest of NEA abortion agenda
The NEA’s radical leftist agenda also includes gun control, pushing the global warming myth, school based “family planning” clinics, reparations for slavery, gay indoctrination, preferences for women and minorities and the whole dirty laundry list of 60’s socialist radicalism.
Terminate the Racket of College Loans
The entire structure of college loans is discriminatory. It forces people who don’t want or are not able to go to college, or who work to pay their own way, to contribute taxes to support those who go to college at other people’s expense, often at pricey elite colleges.
Teacher of Year fired by union seniority rules
In the land of fruits and nuts (California) the Teacher of the Year lost her job to budget cuts. California is bankrupt. Public employee unions have contributed a great deal to that bankruptcy. This is what has become of education under unions. It’s time to end the shackle of public unions and free our kids from the chains of federal involvement in education. Eliminate the DOE. Return education to the people in their respective states where it belongs.
Professional Protesters Bussed in to Chicago Teachers Union Protest
Ginning up the appearance of mass dissent, unions bus in paid community organizers to agitate for more money and benefits for public employee unions which are already paid much better than average Americans who have to foot the bill. As teacher unions have taken over control of our school systems costs have skyrocketed while math, science and reading skills have fallen to record lows in lieu of parroted propaganda about “social justice” and global warming.
Stealth Islamic Propaganda Shown to Six Million American Students
Presenting an idealized, whitewashed image of Islam and its followers, and showing how converting to Islam helps those who are lost and confused, this programming is nothing short of a disguised recruitment video pushing a religion in a public school setting. – American Thinker
Romney: Obama puts union “campaign cash ahead of the needs of our kids”
A Romney home run. The teacher unions have ruined education and are bankrupting cities and states while piling millions into Democrat campaigns. One teachers union has actually raised dues to increase support for Obama. Obama is sold out to unions and has publicly said he would make the union agenda America’s agenda.
Romney goes after declining education, class warfare
“dividing people produces nothing but failure and mediocrity.” “It is not time to divide, it’s time to come together and remain one nation under God.” Speaking to Latino businessmen Romney also described the failure of union driven public education.
Worst Union in America Betrays Schools, Cripples State
How the California Teachers Association betrayed the schools and crippled the state – City Journal