College students, in a survey, claim they go hungry and are too poor to afford food. But is it the taxpayers’ responsibility to pay for college students’ food?
Topic: education
Is It Really Worth Paying $675 Billion for U.S. Education?
From the Carolina Journal: “NEA researchers estimate that the United States will spend just under $675 billon on public education this school year. To put that figure in perspective, public school spending alone is roughly equal to the gross domestic product of Switzerland, the 20th-largest economy in the world.”
End Common Core, say California Scholars
Government mandates are not looked upon in a good light in America, and Common Core is one manifestation of such animosity between citizen and government: The California Alliance of Researchers for Equity in Education (CAREE), which…
Dept of Ed Releases New Rules on Debt Forgiveness, For-Profit Colleges
For-profit colleges now have more rules to follow, related to debt forgiveness.
Are Charter Schools Working?
Charter schools are becoming a huge piece of the market in some of America’s most troubled cities.
Professor Still Thinks ‘Jury is Still Out’ on Homeschooling
Homeschooling is on the rise, but one professor isn’t convinced.
Parents Upset over Gender Fluidity Teaching in a Public School
Fairfax County Public Schools, a large county school system in northern Virginia, will make formal introductions of the new teaching that people are gender-fluid (meaning no one is 100% male or female, boy or girl)….
California Bills Could Strip Christian Colleges of Federal Funding
Sounds very punitive, California legislature
Top Ten List of Why Public Schools are Exceptional
The National School Boards Association (NSBA) came up with a list of the top ten things that make public schools exceptional in 2016. See if you can spot any of these in a government school…
Local Funding = Local Schools
School boards have been vexing about their loss of authority over the schools they ostensibly govern. There is a solution to their problem, but it’s not necessarily one they want to hear. “The public must…