By Rebekah Rast – If you find an investment no longer meets your needs, you quit investing in it and find a worthy substitution. That is exactly what is happening within the public school system. Taxpayers are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with their return on their public school education investment, so they are finding other solutions. A recent Rasmussen Reports national [...]

This episode of Uncommon Knowledge features Andrew Ferguson, a former speechwriter for President George H. W. Bush and the current senior editor at the Weekly Standard. The author of Fools’ Names and Land of Lincoln, Ferguson’s most recent book is entitled Crazy U: One Dad’s Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College. What does the experience of getting our [...]

By Rebekah Rast – The public school lunch program is again making headlines. You might have thought this issue was already resolved when Obama signed into law the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, a bill strongly supported by First Lady Michelle Obama in her effort to curb childhood obesity. Through this law, school breakfasts, lunches and vending machines were [...]

Call it the kind face of fascism. A Chicago public school is banning lunches that are brought from home. Why? Because the arrogant food-cop Principal at Little Village Academy thinks that kids and their parents can’t make “healthy” decisions on what food to consume: Principal Elsa Carmona said her intention is to protect students from their own unhealthful food choices. [...]

By Rebekah Rast – States are beginning to connect the dots between necessary spending and needless spending.  As they work to come up with sustainable budgets the status quo is no longer affordable. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker tackled his state’s budget problem by discontinuing collective bargaining rights for the state’s public union employees.  His bill also requires that these employees [...]

US Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) serves as narrator in a video documentary on school choice released this week by South Carolinians for Responsible Government Foundation. Throughout the film, DeMint voices his strong belief in providing parents with real choices in education. “What our students learn and how they learn it is ultimately our responsibility as parents,” explained Sen. DeMint [...]

By Kevin Mooney — Just after the sun set on the second Battle of Trenton in 1776, General Charles Cornwallis, was convinced he had finally trapped George Washington on the other side of a creek that was scene of fierce cannon fire. But the Continental Army had slipped behind British lines under the cover of dark to attack the smaller [...]

By Kevin Mooney — What happens when you offer up a death wish aimed at the governor of New Jersey? The answer is you receive a standing ovation from hundreds teachers union members who are accustomed to lavish benefit packages and compliant elected officials who roll over each year at the expense of taxpayers. In an effort to close an [...]

By Howard Rich – In his State of the Union address, U.S. President Barack Obama acknowledged that America’s “free enterprise system is what drives innovation.” He also said that if America is to “win the future,” then it must first “win the race to educate our kids.” Mr. Obama is correct on both points — just as he was correct [...]

By Rebekah Rast – It is ingrained in the heads of the youth that you must go to college to get a good job. While overall that is good advice, some graduates are finding their $100,000 educations haven’t provided them with the necessary skills for the modern work world. College is more expensive than ever forcing students to pay more [...]