Feb 18, 2011 MILWAUKEE (AP) — The state’s largest school district has joined those that have canceled classes due to teacher shortages caused by union protests at the state Capitol. Officials say more than 600 of the 5,400 teachers in Milwaukee Public Schools called in sick Friday to attend the protests over Gov. Scott Walker’s [...]

Feb 18, 2011 By Kyle Olson Now that Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is on the road to recovery, labor unions and others on the American left have pulled out all the stops in blocking spending cuts in D.C. and across the country. Since the left has no substantive, intellectually-honest arguments to offer in defense of the [...]

By Linda Chavez (Archive) · Friday, February 18, 2011 As new figures from the Census tell us, the United States is becoming an increasingly racially and ethnically diverse nation — with a population that doesn’t fit neatly into the racial boxes constructed for “diversity” purposes. So why is it that some universities and other institutions [...]

Feb 18, 2011 IBD Labor: Unionized Wisconsin teachers should be ashamed of their response to legislation that would end their privilege to bargain collectively. And if such lousy behavior continues, they should be relieved of their duties. The Wisconsin government is in a financial hole, operating with a $137 million deficit for the current fiscal [...]

MATTHEW DeFOUR Feb 17, 2011 The state’s largest teachers union Wednesday night called on all 98,000 of its members to attend rallies in Madison on Thursday and Friday, which led school districts — including Madison — to cancel classes for Thursday. “This is not about protecting our pay and our benefits,” Wisconsin Education Association Council [...]

The cynical and unrealistic White House budget. Feb 15, 2011 WSJ This was supposed to be the moment we were all waiting for. After three years of historic deficits that have added almost $4.5 trillion to the national debt, President Obama was finally going to get serious about fiscal discipline. Instead, what landed on Congress’s [...]

Treasury wants the company phased out but punts on how to do it. Feb 14, 2011 WSJ It’s enough to make you believe in miracles: The Obama Administration is now on record as saying that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should go out of business. It took a global financial panic and $140 billion in [...]

By Linda Chavez (Archive) · Friday, February 11, 2011 House Democrats have been taunting Republicans to come up with concrete budget cuts ever since the GOP rode to victory last November on a platform of reducing spending. Now, the GOP leadership has proposed an impressive $35 billion down payment on reducing spending for the remaining [...]

By Walter E. Williams (Archive) · Wednesday, February 2, 2011 In my “Black Education Disaster” column (12/22/10), I presented National Assessment of Educational Progress test data that demonstrated that an average black high school graduate had a level of reading, writing and math proficiency of a white seventh- or eighth-grader. The public education establishment bears [...]

Jan 28, 2011 By Ed Feulener “I’ve seen the people at 4 o’clock in the morning, waiting, hoping that they would win a seat for their child in a better school. This is not fair. Parents deserve more choices.” That’s Bill Cosby, voicing his support for National School Choice Week. His words capture the real [...]