The Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP), the only source of federal funding for K-12 foreign language programs, has been zeroed out in H.R.1 and the Senate Labor HHS and Education Appropriations bill. The elimination of this program, a $26.87 million cut, will have immediate effects on districts which have received grants and are in the ( Read more... )

I have had enough people recently ask me what exactly my problem is with Race to the Top, that I am writing it here.

( Warning, this rant is really, really long. )

They voted to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" today!

This makes me so very happy.

Note: This story is somewhat political in nature, because it involves a campaign office. But this is not about policy; this is about an experience I had which brought home to me that we as teachers aren't alone in a harsh world. We do have support, even if it doesn't always show in the most obvious of ways ( Read more... )

Please keep Senators Kennedy and Byrd in your thoughts - I don't know how many have been following this, but both were removed from the Inaugural Luncheon with serious medical difficulties, particularly serious in the case of Senator Kennedy.

Please, whoever is listening - protect our leaders from tragedy at this pivotal time.

For the first time in eight years, I'm proud of my President.

Now for the President, along with the country, to live up to those ideals.

Yes, we can.

Apparently the guy who threw his shoes at Bush is being tried for attempted murder ( Read more... )

So a journalist in Iraq threw his shoes at President Bush during a news conference ( Read more... )

So this is an attempt to reconstruct the entry on the Secretary of Education. Unfortunately, the articles I cited before either a)have been removed, b)are now subscribers-only at their various sites, or c)are in that frustrating group of articles one can only seem to find once ( Read more... )

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These are really nice commemorative stickers for the election of Barack Obama.