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Slamming public education, Gov. Chris Christie said he is willing to sacrifice his career to stand up the the education establishment that wants to maintain the poor education status quo in New Jersey. Christie would make a great Secretary of Education in the new Romney administration.

The failure of this [affirmative action] strategy may very well backfire when the Supreme Court considers the Fisher case. The justices will be presented with several years’ worth of well-researched, richly-documented studies explicating the mismatch effect–with little or nothing from the other side of the matter beyond thinly-concealed allegations of racism.

Political Correctness has a double standard when it comes to teaching about religion in public schools. Drop Christianity down the Memory Hole, but give extensive and mostly favorable coverage to Islam.

The great lie of communism is that it will create a collectivist utopia. In reality it has always depended on terror to maintain itself and it has failed wherever it has been tried. Environmentalism is its latest permutation.

As the Cardinal Newman Society reported February 23, Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington has announced that pro-abortion rights and pro-same-sex marriage Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu is scheduled to deliver the 2012 commencement address and receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from university president Thayne McCulloh–exactly the same honors bestowed on President Obama by Notre Dame in 2009. A group of alumni is now sponsoring a petition requesting that Gonzaga President McCulloh withdraw the invitation. You can sign the petition […]

Here’s one of the sick union hacks who sells out millions of kids to keep their cash flow high. Nathan Saunders, president of the Washington DC Teachers Union explains that teachers can’t be fired because it negatively affects the lives of the fired teachers. Michelle Rhee responds with John Stossel 4-1-12 – video clip from toddfein.

That $270 billion is only the beginning. Remember, there are simply no jobs out there to offset these loans, so we can fully expect that the majority of these college loans will never be repaid (at least not by those who borrowed the money). The borrowers simply have no means of repaying them.

The biggest problem is that the public is largely oblivious to what’s going on. Which is why, after the ObamaCare Supreme Court arguments are over, we need to turn our attention to the other, almost complete, federal takeover: education.

[A] custodian working for a private contractor at Whitewater (Wisconsin) High School was recently fired by her employer after two school employees, including the supervisor of custodians, demanded that she remove a pro-Scott Walker sign from her car and she refused. – BigGovernment.com

The Obama Administration has circumvented Congress through the waiver process, allowing states to opt out of the burdensome No Child Left Behind if they agree to the Administration’s preferred education policies and agree to hand over control of their standards-setting authority to the Department of Education.