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A teaching disaster

The Arizona Republic

July 16, 2011

AmeriCorps' administrators recently violated federal statutes by signing up 17,000 more of their paid volunteers than had been authorized by Congress.

Congress is on the verge of eliminating the $100 million budget of AmeriCorps, the Clinton-inspired federal program that paid stipends to young "volunteers" for a variety of service activities. <br><br>While some of the AmeriCorps programs were admittedly of dubious value, one of them - Teach for America - provided extraordinary return on the dollar. Because Teach for America volunteers receive $4,700 education stipends for their two-year stints in the program, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay has concluded, foolishly, that their work does not constitute true volunteerism.

A teen toy story for troubled times

Marketplace

by Avishay Artsy

November 10, 2008

In this gloomy time for business, maybe all we need is a little youthful optimism. Fifteen-year-old Josh Heinzl wasn't afraid to open his toy store in a mall in Nashua, N.H. last month.

His parents fronted their son $10,000 to open Josh's Toys and Games last month at the Pheasant Lane Mall in Nashua. Josh is home-schooled, already a senior, but he thinks about business almost all the time. [Watch the Video]

A trip to Cleveland, without leaving school

Hanford Sentinel (CA)

by Shannon Milliken

November 17, 2007

Some local home school students saw armor from the Middle Ages, oil paintings and 500-year-old prayer books Friday, when they took a virtual field trip to the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Free for local schools this year through funding by the Kings County Office of Education, virtual field trips through videoconferencing allow students to travel farther than ever before. And Friday's experience was the first time that local home schooled students have had the opportunity to take a virtual field trip.

A Turlock woman has been arrested.

The Mercury News

by AP Wire

July 16, 2011

Tammy Renee Neilson, 29, was booked Monday for allegedly failing to send her children to school for nearly five years.

The woman has since been released from jail after securing a $5,000 bail bond, Stanislaus County sheriff's spokesman Tom Letras said.

ABC's 'Nightline' Airs Superb Segment on School Security

breitbart.com

by John Nolte

December 20, 2012

Last night on ABC's "Nightline," Terry Moran introduced a fantastic segment that took a serious look at something beyond the incessant media drumbeat that pretends only gun control will solve the problem of mass shootings.

In a glaring exception to The Narrative, "Nightline" offered a sober, thoughtful examination of pro-active, common sense solutions that could be implemented almost immediately: Improved structural security, armed guards, and, yes, arming teachers who have already qualified for a concealed carry permit. As I wrote earlier this morning, in the wake of Sandy Hook, the overall media has intentionally flipped our national debate. Instead of talking about ways to prevent mass-shootings, we're now only talking about gun control, when we know for a fact that no gun control law would've stopped Friday's massacre.

Abe Katz survived starvation, forced labor in concentration camps

The Salt Lake Tribune

by Eileen Hallet Stone

May 6, 2010

Born in 1923, Abe Katz was a teenager when the Gestapo picked him up on the street outside his family home in the city of Lodz in central Poland.

Interned as slave labor for the German army, Abe was eventually sent to Auschwitz, tattooed with the number B6282, and with other prisoners put to work in the killing fields chopping wood, making bonfires, watching humanity burn, and burying bones. Four months later, he was shipped to the notorious satellite labor camp called Jaworzno.

Abnormality, thy name is homeschool

Renew America

by Steve Kellmeyer

April 28, 2005

For most Americans, homeschooling seems rather odd. Why bother with it?

We have had public and private schools with us all of our lives, as have our parents before us and their parents before them from time immemorial. Why not stick with what works? The thought would be touching, if it were historically accurate. It isn't. The concept of compulsory schools with mass attendance is a radically new idea to Western civilization, no older than industrialization. Indeed, industrialization arguably could not have taken place without the mass school, and therein lies a tale.

Abolish the Department of Education

The American Spectator

by Jeffrey Lord

February 26, 2013

Will House GOP have the courage to tackle Reagan's unfulfilled promise as sequester looms?

The Washington Post was alarmed. And House Republicans seem to be asleep. On Monday's front page was the latest Obama horror story of what lay ahead for the fifty states if the sequester went into effect.

About That School Obama Highlighted in the State of the Union...

michellemalkin.com

by Doug Powers

January 30, 2011

In spite of the woeful state of education in many areas of the country, there are still reasons to be encouraged. President Obama outlined one such example in his State of the Union speech last week.

Wow, that's an impressive turnaround. How did they go from bad to great? Well, that part of the story ended up on the cutting room floor during the SOTU editing process, for obvious reasons... It was the first school in the state to be granted autonomy from district and union rules.

Abused student to return to class with legal protections

WrightsLaw.com

by Charles Fox, Esq.

July 16, 2011

Chicago, IL - Forrestville Valley school district

A young Ogle County boy who suffered abuse and harassment at the hands of public school staff, under the direction of a superintendent who then lied under oath to protect himself, will soon return to his classroom with legally ordered protections.

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