Senate Bill 8 – Charter Schools On Monday evening, Senate Bill 8, “An Act to Remove the Cap on the Number of Charter Schools,” passed the House by a vote of 68 – 51. Despite its unanimous support from Republicans and one courageous Democrat, changes to the charter school legislation have raised questions by some
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LIBERALS DON’T SEEM TO BE CAPABLE OF UNDERSTANDING JUST HOW DESTRUCTIVE THEIR OUT-OF-CONTROL SPENDING IS FOR OUR COUNTRY! THEY CAN DEMONIZE THE WEALTHY BUT EXACTLY WHO IS PAYING FOR ALL THEIR SPENDING WHEN 40% OF AMERICANS DON’T EVEN PAY TAXES!! Dear MoveOn member So far, more than 30,000 people are participating in a rolling fast
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Objection Sustained The trouble with lawyers begins in the law schools. George Leef March 28, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 27 Schools for Misrule Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America by Walter Olson Encounter, 296 pp., $25.95 Following Judge Roger Vinson’s decision that Obamacare exceeded the powers granted to Congress
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MARCH 29, 2011 Norway to Jews: You’re Not Welcome Here Anti-Semitism doesn’t even mask itself as anti-Zionism. By ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ I recently completed a tour of Norwegian universities, where I spoke about international law as applied to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But the tour nearly never happened. Its sponsor, a Norwegian pro-Israel group, offered to
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MARCH 29, 2011 A once-great American city today repels people of talent and ambition. By WILLIAM MCGURN If only Detroit could point to some natural disaster for its misfortunes. Within hours of the earthquake that devastated northeastern Japan, for example, President Obama called the prime minister to offer “whatever assistance is needed.” Likewise, when Hurricane
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Mona Charen March 8, 2011 12:00 A.M. Impervious to Evidence Supporting failed programs is moral vanity.My friend E. J. Dionne Jr., a liberal columnist for the Washington Post, is a fine man with, I feel safe in asserting, a warm heart. But he betrays in a recent column a persistent failing
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MARCH 26, 2011 Teachers Union Chief Randi Weingarten on charter schools, reformers Michelle Rhee and Joel Klein, and her star turn in ‘Waiting for Superman.’ By JASON L. RILEY New York Teachers unions are on the defensive these days. The Obama administration is pushing various measures long opposed by the unions: charter school expansion, pay-for-performance,
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by Bob Holland and Don Soifer The Washington Times Tuesday, March 8, 2011 Europe’s leaders seemingly have awakened from a long slumber to discover that state-sponsored multiculturalism threatens the fabric of their societies. Their somber conclusions should cause reflection by Americans about the potential threats to national identity here and how educational institutions could play
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