Education

The Family Research Council is taking aim at the guy they hope will be “the next Van Jones” in their latest action alert. It’s apparently Kevin Jennings, who was appointed by Education Secretary Arne Duncan to head the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools (and who has been included among the list of “czars”). His [...]

Trapped in a deepening fiscal quagmire, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) has proposed a budgetary shift that could jeopardize federal stimulus funding for education, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
Although $10 billion in stimulus funds for education has been granted to the state, those funds come with a caveat, as outlined by the U.S. Department of [...]

The Obama budget outline balances a line that was widely applauded by Republicans  from the president’s Wednesday night speech to Congress—“we will expand our commitment to charter schools”—with a line to appeal to teachers unions and other tradional Democratic constituencies who are skeptical of independent but publicly-funded schools.

The Budget increases funding for the Charter School [...]

Remember when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-Calif.) ran for re-election? Here’s a refresher:

After his press conference on education at a Chicago elementary school, Barack Obama headed upstairs to chat with a small group of first- to fourth-graders, according to the pool report.
Somehow, the kids got out of him what reporters couldn’t: when asked by a child when he would bring troops home from Iraq, he said he [...]

Speaking in the American flag-adorned gym of Chicago’s Dodge Renaissance Academy, a public elementary school, President-elect Barack Obama named Arne Duncan as his secretary of education this morning.
Duncan (his first name is pronounced AR-nee), the CEO of the Chicago public school system, has a reputation as a consensus builder, having won friends in both the [...]

The topic of book banning entered the national conversation since the public started hearing about Sarah Palin’s inquiry into censoring books at the Wasilla, Alaska, public library when she was mayor.  (Check out the Mat-Su Frontiersman’s 1996 coverage of the controversy, dug up from the archives in Wasilla by TWI’s Laura McGann.)
At the time, [...]

Via TPM.
In its latest ad about education, titled “What Kind,” the Obama campaign charges that Sen. John McCain once “proposed abolishing the Dept. of Education.” WHAAA?!?

DAYTON, Ohio — It’s a gray, rainy morning in central Ohio, and both presidential nominees are trying to brighten up the mood with visits here today.
Sen. Barack Obama is making his eighth visit to this key swing state since he clinched the Democratic nomination, At a local school, he is unveiling a new education plan [...]