Written by Michelle Malkin
Educrat (ED-yoo-krat) noun, usually pejorative. A government school official or administrator whose primary function is to spend tax dollars telling other parents what to do with their children.
Beltway education bureaucrats abhor families who choose to keep their kids out of public schools — unless it’s to grandstand over gun control.
Behold Arne Duncan, longtime pal of Barack Obama and former U.S.… Continue Reading
Tags: Arne Duncan, Barack Obama, Common Core, Department of Education, Educrat, Gun control, Nicholas Cruz, Project Veritas, Robert Runcie, University of Chicago Laboratory Schools
Education | David E. Smith | 
May 25, 2018 6:00 AM | 
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By Stanley Kurtz
When Common Core supporter Jeb Bush and Common Core opponent Marco Rubio faced off during last month’s Republican presidential debate, they barely seemed to disagree. After moderator Bret Baier posed a question on the clash between Common Core advocates, on the one hand, and opponents of federal involvement in education, on the other, Bush denied the contrast: “I don’t believe the federal government should be involved in the creation of standards, directly or indirectly, the creation of curriculum content.… Continue Reading
Tags: Arne Duncan, Bret Baier, Common Core, Daniel Pfeiffer, Emmett McGroarty, George Will, Jeb Bush, Joel Klein, Lyndsey Layton, Marco Rubio, Mitt Romney, Race to the Top
Education, Federal Elections, Political | David E. Smith | September 2, 2015 4:00 AM | Comments Off on Jeb’s Misleading Talk on Common Core
