Certifying Parents

The Wall Street Journal had an Editorial about the homeschool ruling in California. I had previously written about this here and here. Below are a couple of excerpts [Emphasis mine]: In the annals of judicial imperialism, we have arrived at a strange new chapter. A California court ruled this month that parents cannot “home school” [...]

Dumbing Down Tennessee

Over and over again, we talk about how to educate the children of this nation. We we want standards teacher, unions, administrators and their paid legislators dumb down the test, norm the scores or just flat out lower standards. Tennessee legislators are this time trying to lower standards so the poor overworked children (very sarcastically) [...]

Florida: ACLU Sues School District Over Graduation Rates

In a wonderful twist of irony, the ACLU is suing Florida School Districts over their abysmal education outcomes and graduation rates. They are in fact using the same phrase from the teachers contracts that the teacher unions used to get the voucher system thrown out. (Hat tip: Liberty Is For Me) The phrase is            [...]

Teacher Salaries Site Update

For those of you who love the teachers salary website, The Champion, check out their newly designed website at ChampionNews.net. Well done, the site is even better with many news resources as well the great data on teachers salaries.

Lake County Forums

Starting tonight Lake County is holding forums around the county where residents can express their opinions about the future of Lake County. Tonights forum is in Highland Park. You can see the full schedule at LakeCountyPedia.com. For those of you who have not found LakeCountyPedia.com yet, it is described as “The Encyclopedia of Citizen-Powered Democracy [...]

CA Court of Appeals: There’s No Right to Homeschool

Today the CA Court of Appeals said (Hat tip: Liberty Is For Me)            “Parents do not have a constitutional right to home school their children.”