Category: Education
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Corrupt Civil Rights Leaders Won’t Support School Choice
So says Juan Williams: “The civil rights challenge of this generation is education,” Williams said. “Dr. King would never allow anybody to buy his silence, to buy him off.” He charged that unions are paying off civil rights leaders like Reverend Al Sharpton so that they will not support charter schools and education vouchers. “Poor…
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Defend Yourself from Crazy People
This is blatantly lifted from Second City Cop. No need to correct perfection. – – – – – – – Here’s some brilliant freaking idea coming out of a “police executive” group. Confronting an attacker leads to less casualties: The speed and deadliness of recent high-profile shootings have prompted police departments to recommend fleeing, hiding…
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Conservative Black Chick Launches Super-PAC
The first blacks elected to Congress after the Civil War were Republicans. Rev. Hiram Rhodes Revels was the the first black Senator elected and his peer Joseph Hayne Rainey was the first black elected to the House of Representatives. I’m excited to see the creation of the Conservative Melting Pot PAC, which not only will…
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New Database Tracks Private Student Info
Parents and privacy experts are blasting a new national database that compiles personal student information for educational companies that contract with public schools. New York State officials, working with the city, have already uploaded students’ names, addresses, test scores, learning disabilities, attendance and disciplinary records into the inBloom database, according to the Daily News via…
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Illinois Pensions — A Simple Primer
I found this while at the Khan Academy. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tczu_dvVuuk]
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What Quinn Didn’t Say
“Yes, we are going to continue milking Illinois taxpayers like a dairy cow…” what Gov. Quinn didn’t tell you State of State Address February 6, 2013 Word cloud of State of State Address (what we heard) Yesterday, Gov. Quinn gave the “State of the State”. Here’s the rest of the story… The growth of state…
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Lincoln Quote
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and…
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UNO Charter Schools Engaging in Graft & Corruption
Kudos for the Sun-Times for shedding light on this. Business as usual. The friends of the friends get rich on the backs of the taxpayer.
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Immigrant Knows More About US than Most Citizens
Kudos to this guy!! [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY2JR92Scmk]
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Lewis and Clark’s Air Rifle
An 8 minute history lesson about the power of an air rifle. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pqFyKh-rUI]