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An official from one losing state steamed, “To have peer reviewers praise the application up and down but still explicitly penalize us because of our union opposition is almost too much to bear.”

Obama’s Sec. of Education urged government employees to attend the Al Sharpton rally that was organized to counter the much larger Glenn Beck Restoring Honor rally on the Mall. Once more we see the heavy hand of the Obama administration trying to mislead the public.

The federal government hasn’t got any money, and its creditors are shutting off the credit spigot. The $700 million “won” by New York is pretend money, faery gold that will melt away to nothing when the trumpets sound to herald the great inflation that is coming upon us.

The district censored World Changers’ message simply because it included the Bible, while other private groups remain free to distribute their private literature.

A clerical error of one wrong page in a thousand page application cost New Jersey over $400 million in federal funding. Christie explains in a way only Christie can.

A Tennessee middle school football coach said he got fired after he wrote a song that criticized President Obama. Bryan Glover, an assistant coach at Grassland Middle School near Nashville, co-wrote the country music song, “When You’re Holding a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail.”

The National Education Association (NEA), the U.S.’s largest labor union, is promoting communism to the millions of American public school teachers it represents. Teachers who are influenced by their union’s efforts are more likely to indoctrinate American children into communism.

Public school teachers are unhappy with the growing campaign to grade their performance. They shouldn’t be. It’s almost impossible to fire a union teacher, even those who are profoundly incompetent. In one example, a teacher who “kept a stash of pornography, marijuana and vials with cocaine residue at school” was marked for firing, “but a commission balked, suggesting that firing was too harsh.”

Maybe we should not have saved so many of those union teacher’s jobs. New data show that fewer than 25% of 2010 graduates who took the ACT college-entrance exam possessed the academic skills necessary to pass entry-level courses, despite modest gains in college-readiness among U.S high-school students in the last few years.

As U.S. Sen. Patty Murray put it on the floor of the Senate last week: “That means 3,000 teachers in Washington state who are right now in limbo, who are spending this summer not knowing if they’ll return to a classroom or a pink slip in the fall.” Problem is, there aren’t 3,000 teachers in Washington state facing layoffs. Not even close. – thenewstribune.com