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Bobby Jindal Gives A Lesson In Education Reform

Source: Esquire, Dec 12 2012, 4:36pm CST

"I think there is a moral imperative that it's not right that only wealthy parents get to decide where their kids go to school," Jindal told an audience at Washington's Brookings Institution. Jindal was invited as the keynote speaker fo ...

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Suzanne Fields: Getting to the core in public schools

Source: San Diego Union-Tribune  |   Jun 18 2013, 7:27pm CDT

The Washington Times | It’s the season of “Pomp and Circumstance,” flavored with dashes of parental pride, as a rising generation in cap and gown marches solemnly into its future. The graduates are glowing with the ...

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Hearing on science standards is July 23

Source: Richmond Register  |   Jun 18 2013, 7:12pm CDT

FRANKFORT — FRANKFORT – Once again those looking for controversy about new science standards for Kentucky school children were disappointed when the Education Assessment and Accountability Review Subcommittee ...

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"To me it's pretty obvious that we don't fund bricks and mortar, we're funding students' education"


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CTU's Lewis rips Emanuel's "elite" reform advisers

Source: Chicago Tribune  |   Jun 18 2013, 5:45pm CDT

In the wake of recent school closings and teacher layoffs, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis took aim Tuesday at the two R’s of her education reform effort — racism and revenue. Lewis, speaking to the City Club of Chicago, did not ...

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Jindal Should Have Left Well Enough Alone

Source: Washington Monthly  |   Jun 18 2013, 5:21pm CDT

June 18, 2013 5:21 PM This is a big reason the Republican party can’t change. So many of its members have a warped vision of what liberalism is. They think it’s something so mind-bendingly awful that they cannot fathom how voters could willingly c ...

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Thank You, Bobby Jindal

Source: American Spectator  |   Jun 18 2013, 5:20pm CDT

At present it looks as if the entire Republican party needs to go to counseling. It’s really getting embarrassing, all these public professions of feelings of inadequacy. Every day it seems another jilted high-placed Republic ...

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Video: Jindal’s ‘stupid’ GOP ignores jobs, sequester for latest abortion bill

Source: MSNBC  |   Jun 18 2013, 4:48pm CDT

>> thank you. it's tuesday, june 1th. the economy, immigration reform , national security , forget it. it the house of representatives wants to go back 40g years. -- 40 years. i've got the power >> one of the things you learn as presid ...

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Charter-school pioneer discusses innovative ed movement at Utah conference

Source: Salt Lake Tribune  |   Jun 18 2013, 4:31pm CDT

Education » Former Minnesota State Sen. Ember Reichgott Junge discusses first-in-nation charter school law. Charter schools could not get out of the political battleground of polarized lawmakers of today. That’s according to Ember Reichott Junge, who hel ...

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Democrats Mock Bobby Jindal's Description of Liberalism

Source: U.S. News & World Report  |   Jun 18 2013, 4:27pm CDT

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal speaks to reporters with Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, left, prior to a closed fundraising dinner for the state Republican Party on April 3, 2013, in Jackson, Miss. But in an op-ed in Politico Tuesday, Jindal's take on "what ...

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Replacement for LePage’s A-through-F grading system wins majority support in Senate

Source: Bangor Daily News  |   Jun 18 2013, 3:11pm CDT

If the Democrats’ bill passes there, it is likely to be vetoed by LePage, who proposed and called for the implementation of the grading system in the first place. The result was a bell-curved grading system that gave as many schools A’s and B’s as it did ...

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