In the past few weeks, President Barack Obama delivered two major speeches touting education reforms. He invited teachers to the Rose Garden and pushed the House to pass an emergency spending bill saving thousands of school jobs. This week, his education chief is traveling on a cross-country bus tour to highlight school success stories.
The Education Department kicked off its first ever “Bullying Summit” this week with a speech by Secretary Arne Duncan about the need “to break the cycle of bullying.” But if Duncan really wants to stop the biggest bully in America’s schools right now, he’ll have to confront his boss, President Obama.
WASHINGTON — The House interrupted its summer recess on Tuesday to approve $26 billion in aid to school districts and states to prevent large-scale layoffs of teachers and public employees and to engage in another partisan fight over policy priorities.
AUSTIN, Tex. — President Obama shared an enthusiastic handshake and a hearty clap on the shoulder with this state’s Republican governor, Rick Perry, when Air Force One touched down here on Monday. But while Mr. Perry, who is running for re-election, stood on the tarmac and clapped for the president, his Democratic challenger, Bill White, [...]
New survey data show black support on the rise. So why is the NAACP opposed? This past week the NAACP, the National Urban League and other civil-rights groups collectively condemned charter schools. Claiming to speak for minority Americans, the organizations expressed “reservations” about the Obama administration’s “extensive reliance on charter schools.” They specifically voiced concern [...]
President Tries to Sway Unions, Civil Rights Groups to Back Merit-Based System WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama on Thursday delivered a fresh call to hold teachers accountable for student achievement, defending his administration against complaints from unions, civil rights groups and Democratic lawmakers.
President Obama’s speech on much needed education reform. The national push for higher standards and excellence in education is about to get a much needed boost.
Today, President Obama wades in to a controversy that threatens to split one of the Democratic Party’s most generous source of donations and activists, the teacher unions, from the whole. The dispute is about teacher performance, narrowly, and about government’s distribution of common goods more generally.