The White House has released the text of the speech President Barack Obama will deliver tomorrow to students around the country. After the huge firestorm from conservatives about left-wing indoctrination and meddling from Washington in local education, the administration was...
The claim: "Perry has led the fight for better schools, signing into law a $2,000 pay raise for teachers and the country's largest performance pay program," the governor's Web site says. "He ordered schools to spend 65 percent of tax...
The House's special committee on the federal economic stimulus money is hearing from the public this week about how to spend the billions Texas will get. Among the topics: public education (K through 12), higher education, criminal justice and transportation....
Nearly 1,000 school board members from across the country are in Washington, DC this week. It's time for the National School Boards Association's annual conference. It's also a good timing to lobby Congress, especially senators, on dollars for education in...
Here's a look at fact checks of some claims by Barack Obama and John McCain: Claims in a Barack Obama ad that John McCain voted to cut education funding and proposed abolishing the Education Department were deemed barely true by...
For more on John McCain's incorrect claim that Sarah Palin has sought no earmarks as governor, click here. The Associated Press reports that Ms. Palin "asked for nearly $200 million in targeted spending for the 2009 fiscal year." Along the...
FactCheck.org takes a look at an Obama campaign ad that it says offers misleading information about John McCain's votes on education. It's a triple dip, Factcheck says, falsely characterizing several Senate votes as votes to cut funding, saying McCain is...
Read more about John McCain's challenges to Big Pharma here. Some other fact checks from across the Web today: Factcheck.org looks at Barack Obama's claims about McCain's health care plans. The Washington Post examines a new McCain ad on Obama's...
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