-
FeaturedHealth CarePodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Justin Haskins: Jeb’s Plan to Repeal & Replace Obamacare
In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Heartland Editor Justin Haskins discusses the Presidential candidate Jeb Bush’s plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.
-
EducationFeaturedFlorida Teachers Union Continues to Fight Tax Credit Scholarship Program for Low Income Students
Circuit Judge George Reynolds tossed out the Florida Education Association’s (FEA) lawsuit against the state’s tax-credit scholarship program, which serves low income students. “Taxpayers can’t challenge the program because the…
-
EducationFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Kays: Politicians Solidifying Their Stances on Common Core
Director of Communications Jim Lakely speaks with Managing editor of School Reform News Heather Kays about the latest Common Core news in today’s Heartland Daily Podcast.
-
“I don’t care if the standards are written by Aristotle, perfected by Shakespeare, approved by Newton, and endorsed by Jefferson. They are wrong because they are the thin end of an enormous federal wedge that will inevitably give you a standard to cause the textbooks to be aligned with the exams, and you will get a national curriculum which is forbidden by law that will come in by stealth and indirection.”
-
EducationFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Heather Kays: Common Core and Parent Trigger Pilot Program
Paul Molloy host of Freedom Works, The Paul Molloy Show on Tantalk1340 in Florida interviewed School Reform News Managing Editor Heather Kays. Molloy and Kays discuss possible presidential hopeful Jeb Bush’s defense of Common Core and the many problems related to the Common Core standards. Kays addresses criticism against politicians who have changed their minds regarding the standards.
-
Cuomo and Vitter have dazzled in their colorful chameleon get-ups, but they will have to settle for runners-up to Jeb Bush this Halloween.
-
So often do avid boosters such as U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush extol the national standards for K-12 education as “rigorous,” it would be easy to conclude the adjective had become part of the name: The Rigorous Common Core State Standards.
-
The Tampa Bay Times printed a flattering story of how “parent groups” stopped the Parent Trigger legislation in Florida recently. Unfortunately, the reporter completely bought the labels of this “grassroots” “coalition of disparate, but…
Top Posts
