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Our public schools went through a significant change during the Obama years, a change that was met with an unusual amount of criticism from the public, parents, and concerned education professionals.

The go-to mantra of many traditional government school advocates is that education-choice programs destroy neighborhood public schools.

In the land of the free, surely choice eventually will triumph over the dreary imposed sameness of a Common Core.

In a question-and-answer session at a recent White House-staged CEO business town hall, President Donald Trump once again expressed his belief in local control of education. “We can’t be managing education from Washington,” Trump asserted.

It’s high time the U.S. government, especially the Department of Education, looked to parents for some advice on how to run things, rather than the other way around.

For the Feds in the U.S. Education Department, ‘flexibility’ means there’s nothing left to lose.

As the presidential election looms, The Economist considers whether the next president will use “the regulatory power of the federal government to spur reform” in education policy—as both Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama did—and if he or she does, how that will be accomplished.

The Heartland Institute hosted a “Stop Fed Ed” event at the Andrew Breitbart Freedom Center on Wednesday, October 12. The event featured Cora Weber, who discussed her role in the grassroots effort to stop Common Core and (eventually) eliminate the federal Department of Education.

Author Patrick Wood warned us that America’s schools were in danger back in 2005. In his article “Global Schooling: The Hijacking of American Education”, he equates the virtual takeover (or hijacking) of American education to that of seizing control of a moving vehicle by use of force, in order to reach an alternate destination. The time period for this hijacking coincides with the economic plundering of America. According to Patrick Wood, the takeover started roughly in 1973 and is still in progress today.

There have been both good and bad education trends and stories in 2015. These stories center around three major themes: choice, judges, and Common Core. 10. NC Judge rules taxpayer-funded…

Its current form is the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), which critics of varied stripes widely regard as a colossal flop. Yet, few in Washington, DC dare talk of repeal. Even with both houses now under Republican control, Congress continues to haggle into an eighth year over the particulars of reauthorization.

“If you like your health plan, you can keep it,” is the Lie of the Year, according to PolitiFact. But Barack Obama has been operating under an even more momentous lie for his entire presidency.

There’s nothing as satisfying as letting someone else say “I told you so” – instead of having to do it yourself.  So I will let Greg Forster, one of the…