Wisconsin Common Core hearing promises to ignite uncommon passion

By   /  May 21, 2013  /  Accountability, Education, Featured, News, Wisconsin  /  6 Comments

The Legislature holds a hearing on the Common Core State Standards at 10 a.m. Wednesday. Common Core opponents are preparing to make their stand against a public education standards they see as usurping local control and further weakening the American education system.

By M.D. Kittle | Wisconsin Reporter

MADISON – Call it a quiet controversy.

But there are a lot of people who don’t much care for Common Core State Standards.

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Banned from state biz, Texas contractor cashes in on school districts

By   /  May 21, 2013  /  Education, News, Texas  /  5 Comments

The $47 million spent on this sports complex raised the first of many questions about the behavior of the Beaumont Independent School District Board.

By Jon Cassidy | Watchdog.org

BEAUMONT – An electrical contractor for the scandal-plagued Beaumont Independent School District was barred from doing business with the state nine months ago, yet the school district continues to send business his way.

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Insitutional spending skyrocketing at New Mexico universities

By   /  May 17, 2013  /  Education, Featured, New Mexico, News  /  No Comments

SPENDING BATTLE: A New Mexico Watchdog investigation raises questions about whether universities are spending more money on running their institutions than educating students.

By Rob Nikolewski | New Mexico Watchdog

Do universities in New Mexico spend too much money on what’s called “institutional support” compared to academic support and instruction?

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Right and left oppose Common Core standards in PA

By   /  May 14, 2013  /  Accountability, Education, Featured, Issues, News, Pennsylvania, State Government  /  No Comments

PASS THE TEST: A new test will determine whether high school students can graduate, but the standards used for those assessments is raising some questions.

By Eric Boehm | PA Independent

HARRISBURG – They don’t always agree on education policy, but when they do, it’s to oppose an unfunded mandate on school districts.

The implementation of the so-called Common Core standards in Pennsylvania public schools is facing united opposition from teachers unions and tea party groups – two political factions that rarely, if ever, play on the same team.

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DOJ ignores Latinos in TX voting rights case

By   /  May 14, 2013  /  Education, News, Texas  /  3 Comments

The $47 million spent on this sports complex raised the first of many questions about the behavior of the Beaumont Independent School District Board.

By Jon Cassidy | Watchdog.org
BEAUMONT – The Department of Justice is blocking a voter-approved plan to convert the board of the Beaumont Independent School District from a system of seven geographic districts to one with five districts and two at-large seats.
Yet local Latinos say that it’s the Justice Department that’s doing the disenfranchising by insisting on [...]

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