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Waltham parents' hearing benched: Homeschooled kids stay put

Metro West Daily News

by AP Wire

July 16, 2011

WALTHAM -- A court hearing that will most likely determine whether two homeschooled children will stay in the custody of their parents has been postponed indefinitely.

DSS officials arrived at the Bryants' Gale Street home at 7:45 a.m. and demanded the children come to a Waltham hotel and take a test to determine their educational level. The children refused to go with DSS workers.<br /><br />After obtaining a court order, the children were driven to the hotel by their parents but again refused to take the test.

Walled Lake teacher arrested for alleged sexual contact with 8 year old - Detroit Crime

examiner.com

by Robert Brignall

November 24, 2010

Los Angeles police detectives say Mark Stephen Hubbard, who has taught for eight years at Hillcrest Christian School in suburban Granada Hills, was arrested Sunday. He was booked for investigation of multiple sex crimes and released on $100,000 bail.

Larry Dean Konyha, 54, is presently behind bars in lieu of $50,000 bond, and has been suspended from his job at the Walnut Creek Middle School in West Bloomfield. The charge does not involve one of Konyha's students, nor did the alleged conduct occur on school property. It involves a girl in Commerce Twp; Konyha also lives there and knew both the girl and her mother.

Walker offers compromise, fleebaggers walk away

Hot Air

by Ed Morrissey

March 9, 2011

The Wisconsin Fleebaggers keep saying that all they want is for Governor Scott Walker to come to the table and negotiate on his budget-repair bill, and they'll end their hostaging of Wisconsin government.

However, new e-mails released by Walker's office show that the governor has negotiated on key aspects of his union reforms, perhaps to an extent that might make his supporter nervous...

Waivers for favors: Who applied, who was denied, and why?

Michelle Malkin

by Michelle Malkin

May 19, 2011

Matthew Boyle at TheDC continues hammering at the murky Obamacare waiver process. Not surprisingly, HHS won't return his calls.

Waivermania hits Dept of Education

Hot Air

by Ed Morrissey

August 8, 2011

The Obama administration started off its implementation of its signature program, ObamaCare, by issuing a blizzard of waivers as it discovered that compliance with the new law would throw hundreds of thousands of people out of insurance plans.

Instead of fixing the law - or abandoning it altogether - HHS started issuing free passes at its discretion to certain insurers, almost half of which covered union workers. The waivers stopped when the new House Oversight Committee demanded an explanation of the criteria for waivers and a list of those denied, with explanations for the denials. But that hasn't stopped Waivermania in the Obama administration. Now Education Secretary Arne Duncan has taken a page from Kathleen Sebelius' rule-of-whim playbook to do an end-around of No Child Left Behind...

Waiting list grows to 500 names for a charter school

The BYU Newsnet (UT)

by Yissel Ramirez

October 31, 2003

Hundreds of Utah parents are waiting to enroll their children in one of Utah's few charter schools.

"After concerns about the ... inability of the district to address individual student needs, I began to look for other alternatives for my children's education," Adamic said. "I quickly learned my options were limited to home school, private school or to live with what I had. I could not accept these options, so I began to look for solutions to this problem."<br><br>The Utah State of Education states on its Web site, "Charter schools are public schools open to all students. They operate on public funds without tuition."<br><br>"In public schools, a fifth grader teacher may have no idea what a second grade teacher taught," Simons said. "We certainly know what was taught in second grade. Our curriculum is more defined and absolute. It is designed for each student to spiral through."

Wait, Did This 15-Year-Old From Maryland Just Change Cancer Treatment?

forbes.com

by Bruce Upbin

June 18, 2012

If you're feeling bad about how American kids lag the world in science and math, take heart in the story of Jack Andraka, a high school freshman from Maryland.

This 15-year-old came up with a prize-winning breakthrough that could change how cancer and other fatal diseases are diagnosed and treated. His name is Jack Andraka, and he loves science and engineering with every inch of his 15-year-old soul. Just spend a minute or so watching this video. Seriously, do it now before you read more. Nothing from the Oscars or Grammys comes close to the unabashed excitement and joy of Andraka charging up to the stage to accept his $75,000 grand prize at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in May. This is the Olympics of youth science, with more than 1,500 entries from 70 countries competing, each of which already won their national competitions.

W.Va. Mom Seeks Immunization Exemption

WSAZ News 3

May 13, 2009

A West Virginia mother is asking a federal judge to force education officials to enroll her daughter in public school without the required immunizations.

Jennifer Workman says it's against her religious beliefs and she's concerned about her daughter developing autism. The case is set for trial on July 6.

Vouchers Improve Public Schools in Sweden.

Children First America

July 16, 2011

Vouchers and Visions of Freedom: A Fictional History

The Future of Freedom Foundation

by Richard M. Ebeling

July 16, 2011

The following fictional history was inspired by and is meant as a response to a lecture entitled 'Competition,' delivered by Nobel Laureate economist, Gary Becker, on September 12, 1999.

Parents just could not be trusted to provide the essential and minimal training in ethics and moral conduct necessary for all boys and girls to properly develop their personal self-esteem and collective sense of responsibility for the greater common good.

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