Failing Schools on Townhall

• BET Founder Slams Black Unemployment Rate Sun Mar 31
  Leah Barkoukis
• Note to Union Teachers: If You Want to be Treated Like Professionals, Act Like It Thu Mar 14
  Kyle Olson
  I was deeply troubled when video surfaced last week of striking Strongsville, Ohio teachers heckling substitute teachers who were applying to be their temporary replacements ... more
• New School Year, New Teacher Movement Wed Sep 5
  Gary Beckner
  Back to school season is in full swing across the country. As our students and teachers start anew this fall, we should take this opportunity to renew our support and commitment to our nation’s educators as they strive to meet today’s challenges in their classrooms across America. ... more
• Actors, artists aim to turn around failing schools Mon Apr 23
  AP News
• Florida rejects 'Parent Trigger' bill for failing schools Fri Mar 9
  Reuters News
• Team Obama Continues Regulatory Juggernaut Mon Mar 5
  Lurita Doan
  While Republicans focus on skewering GOP presidential candidates in primaries, Team Obama’s regulatory juggernaut continues to destroy the American way of life. Small businesses, entrepreneurs, and job creators are already groaning from the weight of the many and new regulations Obama has initiated in the past three years. ... more
• Department of Education: Catholic Schools Beat Public Schools Wed Feb 22
  Terry Jeffrey
  When two schools meet in a basketball game, the winner is indisputable. One team outscores the other. The same is true in certain types of academic competition. When students take standardized national tests, students from some schools outscore students from others. ... more
• Civics Quiz... FAIL Fri Feb 3
  America
  Teens are asked simple civics questions. Let's just say they failed miserably. ... more
• Schools of Education Wed Jan 25
  Walter E. Williams
  Larry Sand's article "No Wonder Johnny (Still) Can't Read" -- written for The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, based in Raleigh, N.C. -- blames schools of education for the decline in America's education. ... more
• AFT Union Spreading Wealth around the Globe Mon Nov 7
  Kyle Olson
  According to the propaganda of the teachers unions, these are bleak times for public education. Younger teachers are being laid off, school employees are making benefit concessions, and unions are losing bargaining privileges. ... more
• Exposing Edward Larkin Thu Nov 3
  Mike Adams
  Tenure must go. And so must Professor’s unions. If you don’t agree with me then perhaps you have yet to familiarize yourself with the case of Professor Edward Larkin. This tenured psychopath will keep his job despite exposing himself in public in front of a 17-year old girl and her mother. ... more
• 'Unions' empower parents to push for reform Sun Oct 9
  AP News
• Unions: Boosting Teacher Morale One Reheated Casserole at a Time Wed Oct 5
  Kyle Olson
  Virtually no state is immune to the red ink found in school budgets, which is a result of routine overspending. For too long, schools have not kept spending in check. They’ve given raises they couldn’t afford, they maintained bloated benefit packages that far exceeded their private-sector counterparts, and they haven’t employed much business sense in managing massive, multi-million dollar operations. ... more
• Marching Orders Thu Sep 29
  Cal Thomas
  You know President Obama thinks he is in trouble with his liberal base when he lapses into what used to be called "jive talk" before an audience of Congressional Black Caucus members. Dropping his "g's", the president admonished the group to "stop complainin'." ... more
• The Speech Obama Should Give to Students Tomorrow Tue Sep 27
  Kyle Olson
  When President Obama once again addresses public school students this week, he will likely hit all the poll-tested phrases (“The future of America depends on you”) and other warmed-over pablum (“There is no excuse for not trying”) which will leave the kids reaching for their contraband ear buds. ... more
• Too Much Higher Education Wed Sep 14
  Walter E. Williams
  Too much of anything is just as much a misallocation of resources as it is too little, and that applies to higher education just as it applies to everything else. ... more
• Chicago Teachers Union Threatens to Strike Over Raises; Silent on Failing Schools Thu Aug 25
  Kyle Olson
  The CTU will remind you that the labor unions created America’s middle class. But don’t bother pointing out that the self-serving teachers unions are creating a generation of ignoramuses who are so poorly educated that they will never have a chance at a middle class lifestyle. ... more
• Offered chance, few failing schools close doors Thu Jul 14
  AP News
• Ill-Gotten Gains Thu Jul 7
  Jackie Gingrich Cushman
  Why would teachers and principals who were supposed to be focusing on teaching children focus, instead, on falsifying student achievement? ... more
• Michigan to take over 45 of Detroit's failing schools Mon Jun 20
  Reuters News
• NAACP Fights To Keep Kids Trapped in Failing Schools Sat Jun 4
  Kyle Olson
  Many civil rights groups around the nation have strongly supported school choice initiatives, mainly out of concern for inner-city children who have traditionally been stuck in sub-par schools. So why isn’t the NAACP on board? ... more
• Education Freedom is Civil Rights Issue of Today Mon May 16
  Star Parker
  Criminal charges against one single black mother and conviction of another for sending their children to schools in districts in which they are not residents provide yet more indications of deep seated problems festering in our country. ... more
• Choosey About Choice Tue Apr 19
  Cal Thomas
  The Democratic mayor of Washington, D.C., Vincent Gray, distinguished himself last week by getting arrested in an act of "civil disobedience" reminiscent of the '60s. The mayor, six council members and more than 40 other protesters were detained by Capitol police for blocking the street to oppose the congressional budget deal that deprived D.C. of federal funds for abortions. ... more
• Chicago Kids: Get Your Hands Off My Lunchbox! Tue Apr 12
  Kyle Olson
  No wonder Chicago Public Schools have a dropout rate near 50%: now the government school system is telling kids what to eat. ... more
• Ousted principals quickly find new education jobs Sat Mar 26
  AP News

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