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Senate Passes Local Control of Education Act as a Budget Amendment
Photo credit: UpstateNYer (CC-By-SA 3.0) The U.S. Senate today passed the Local Control of Education Act, sponsored by U.S. Senator David Vitter (R-Louisiana), as a budget amendment. Vitter, who once...
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Ted Cruz Discusses Education Policy in Iowa
I interviewed U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), who has declared his presidential campaign, while he was in Iowa for the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition Spring Kickoff for Caffeinated Thoughts. We...
View ArticleCruz Amendment to Gut Testing Mandate Fails
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) submitted an amendment yesterday that would have completely gutted the federal testing mandate in S.1177, the Every Child Achieves Act. It failed Thursday morning on a 40...
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U.S. Senate Passes the Every Child Achieves Act 81-17
Photo credit: FEMA/Bill Koplitz (Public Domain) The U.S. Senate passed S.1177, the Every Child Achieves Act, on a 81 to 17 vote on Thursday afternoon spending seven days debating the bill. The concerns...
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Ted Cruz, Rand Paul Receive an A – on Common Core Report Card
U.S. Senator Rand Paul, along with Ted Cruz, received an A-. ThePulse2016, American Principles in Action, and Cornerstone Policy Research released a Common Core score card on all of the major...
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ESEA Reauthorization Conference Report Advances to Final Vote in the Senate
Photo credit: Rob Crawley (CC-By-2.0) The ESEA reauthorization conference report, S.1177, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) advanced in the U.S. Senate on a 84 to 12 cloture vote. The vote took...
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U.S. Senate Sends ESEA Reauthorization to Obama
Photo credit: UpstateNYer (CC-By-SA 3.0) I reported at Caffeinated Thoughts that the U.S. Senate voted in favor – 85 to 12 – to pass the Every Student Achieves Act, the reauthorization of the...
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Assessing Candidates’ Record on Common Core
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore (CC-By-SA 2.0) Alex Leary of the Tampa Bay Times discussed Common Core’s role in the campaign of the two Florida presidential candidates, Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush. The...
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Common Core Advocates Biggest Losers in Iowa
2016 Iowa Caucus winner Ted Cruz in New Hampton, IA on 1/23/16. Photo credit: Dave Davidson (Prezography.com) Well I’m back from a break as I was focused on covering the Iowa Caucuses, and the results...
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Common Core Led to Jeb Bush’s Downfall
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore (CC-By-SA 2.0) After the results of the South Carolina Primary were released former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who finished a distant 4th in the First in the South Primary,...
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