The Democrats’ pending EAGLE Act that is being pushed by West Coast investors would create new corporate scandals by allowing more CEOs to hire more subordinate and silent visa-workers instead of outspoken American professionals.
Author and speaker Marianne Williamson said Tuesday during the CNN broadcast of the July 30th 2020 Democrat presidential debate that she does not think the Democrats “should be surprised” that a lot of Americans are disillusioned by politicians who take money from corporations.
Joe Biden’s first presidential campaign fundraiser will be co-hosted by a top union busting attorney, undercutting the leading Democrat candidate’s message that he is in favor of American workers while incumbent GOP President Donald Trump is not.
Louisiana parent activist and attorney Sara Wood describes former state lawmaker Brett Geymann as a “modern day Sam Adams” and “statesman” who will help steer Congress back to its rightful constitutional authority.
During a town hall event Wednesday in Oskaloosa, Iowa, GOP 2016 contender Carly Fiorina said Republicans have been involved in creating education programs such as Common Core, No Child Left Behind, and Race to the Top that, ultimately, amount to “crony capitalism.”
In the second Common Core undercover video by Project Veritas, an account executive at textbook publisher Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt demonstrates why Common Core “rebrands,” whereby states claim to “repeal” the Common Core standards to appease citizens, but then simply replace them with the same or very similar standards with a local flavor name, are very profitable for publishers.
In an undercover investigation video about the education reform known as Common Core, a senior Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt sales executive laughs that she “hates kids,” and that textbook manufacturers are concerned about their profits, not the educational needs of children.
Parents, teachers, and other citizens who oppose the Common Core standards in Louisiana say corporate cronyism propelled proponents of the highly unpopular reform to win the super-majority in the recent state board of education elections.
Hundreds of millions of dollars have already been paid to corporations like Pearson, McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Scholastic, and Apple since 2012 in contracts related to the controversial Common Core standards.
The battle in Arizona between newly elected state superintendent Diane Douglas (R) – who won her race on an anti-Common Core platform – and newly elected Gov. Doug Ducey (R) is illuminating the divide between conservatives who want local control of education and establishment politicians who espouse – whether openly or not – the nationalized standards.
The NOLA.com/Times-Picayune editorial board is quoting a big business and industry group in Louisiana to rail against Gov. Bobby Jindal’s (R) recent executive order to protect parents and school districts from consequences of opting out of the Common Core-aligned PARCC tests.
