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Two items to raise the blood pressure of law-abiding, hard-working Americans:
1) From the L.A. Times: “San Francisco D.A.’s program trained illegal immigrants for jobs they couldn’t legally hold.”
As she runs for state attorney general, prosecutor Kamala Harris faces questions over a program that trained illegal immigrant drug felons for jobs, kept them out of jail [...]

I noted over the weekend that charity-stingy First Lady told the grads at UC Merced to “give back.”
Via Vanessa Richardson at WalletPop , the Merced Sun-Star reported on the price tag for Michelle O’s lecture:
The Merced Sun-Star reports the school’s commencement budget has ballooned from $100,000 to $700,000 to accommodate Obama on campus. It’s not [...]

An estimated 20,000 protesters are expected this weekend to oppose Catholic Notre Dame’s embrace of abortion militant Barack Obama.
Eighteen were arrested today at the gates of the university.
More than 360,000 have signed a protest petition.
The White House is pooh-poohing the controversy:
The White House has responded to opposition to President Obama’s appearance at the University [...]

Sharing a bit of good news about the JROTC program in San Francisco, which I’ve blogged about for the past several years.
The school board has voted to restore the program after an extraordinary public backlash and campaign by past and present cadets — many of them minority students — to bring it back:
A three-year battle [...]

Fun government schools fact of the day:
The Los Angeles Unified School District pays 160 shady teachers and staff an estimated $10 million a year not to teach.
Nice non-work if you can get it.

D.C. parents aren’t letting the anti-choice Obama administration off the hook for strangling the city’s school choice program. They’re holding a rally at Freedom Plaza today. Watch ReasonTV’s terrific video and if you’re in the Washington area, please join the parents and children raising their voices for educational excellence and opportunity for all:

Save Our D.C. [...]

No, they haven’t learned.
And yes, it is time for UNC-Chapel Hill administrators to turn the mirror on themselves and ask how they fostered this pathetic climate of intolerance. After driving Tom Tancredo off campus, student mobsters again attempted to shut down a pro-immigration enforcement advocate, Rep. Virgil Goode. He was to speak on the suppression [...]

Several parents with kids at UN-Chapel Hill have e-mailed me their outrage over the appalling treatment of Tom Tancredo. Yesterday, the chancellor sent the following note to parents:
Dear Carolina Parents,
To keep you informed, we are forwarding a message from Chancellor Holden Thorp that was disbursed to the University community today.
Your Office on Campus,
New Student & [...]

The free-speech squelchers at UNC-Chapel Hill threw a temper tantrum during Tom Tancredo’s speech.
I can hardly stomach watching the videos. And I am very grateful that Tancredo was not harmed.
We’ve seen it so many times before: Administration officials and faculty who refuse to act like adults on campus. They are worse than AWOL. They have [...]

It would have been helpful to know about a Department of Education study on D.C.’s school choice initiative before the Democrats — beholden to teachers unions allergic to competition — voted to starve the innovative program benefiting poor, minority children in the worst school district in the nation.
Somehow, the results of the study conducted last [...]

Reason number 99,997,678 to homeschool your kids, via the SFChronicle:
There was a time when teachers would freak at the sound of Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze” or “Stone Free.” Now the San Francisco school district wants them to get in the spirit.
“Remember the first time you heard Jimi Hendrix?” reads the cover of the district’s new [...]

It’s official:
The Oakland school board has voted to change the name of a small school to Barack Obama Academy, reportedly the first middle school in the country to adopt the name of the nation’s 44th president.
While Obama has been in office fewer than 100 days, the 35 students at the former Alternative Learning Community public [...]

If you want your kids to go to a university that teaches tolerance for dissent, respect for free speech, and the ability to debate ideological opponents without screaming at them and waving ferrets in their faces, do not — I repeat, do not — send them to the University of Massachussetts .
For crying out loud.
It [...]

Militants.

Scroll for updates…7:09pm Eastern…motion to invoke cloture passes 62-35…and…omni-pork sails through the Senate on voice vote…$410 billion soon to siphoned away from taxpayers to bolster congressional re-election prospects…they should have said “Oink” instead of “aye…”
Just watched Jeff Session’s E-Verify amendment to ensure that omni-pork spending only goes to legal citizens get tabled.
Vote was 50-47. Here’s [...]

Not very.

I’ve posted several times over the past week on the Democrats’ campaign to kill a federal voucher program for poor children in Washington, D.C. (see here, here, and here).
Well, lookee here. President Obama’s education secretary is feeling the heat — and now says the program should be preserved (some of the beneficiaries, as noted previously, [...]

…when asked why the president opposes the D.C. school choice program that allows a black family to send their two kids to the same private school to which the Obamas send their daughters.
Squirm, Bobby, squirm.

First, watch this powerful video open letter to President Obama from students who have benefited from D.C. public school choice through the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program. Kids who support government monopolies get all the MSM attention. These kids get…ignored:

Rob Bluey blasts the Dems’ efforts to block the D.C. schoolhouse door led by Rep. David [...]

As I noted last night, the House omni-pork bill includes a provision to strangle D.C. public school choice.
President Obama, you chose the D.C. school you thought best for your daughters. Why won’t you let other D.C. parents do the same?
Andrew Coulson blasts the Democrats behind the measure:
SINCE 2004, a federally funded private-school voucher program has [...]

We need all the glimmers of hope we can get. Take ‘em where you can find ‘em. From an East Valley Tribune story on students at Mesa, AZ’s Dobson High School, where the president/savior spoke earlier today:
Some of the students attentively watched the speech, giving questioning looks and comments, shaking their heads and laughing [...]

Caution: Tax dollars at work, creating 7-year-old Obama-bots in the New Rochelle, NY school system.
Students at an elementary school in New Rochelle, NY, a largely Democratic suburb of New York City with a City Council and School Board dominated by Democrats, were recently assigned an in-class assignment to color in drawings of Barack Obama [...]

“Legal fictions.”

Who’s still standing in the schoolhouse door?

Well, this is rich.
I told you last month that Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers was invited to speak at Florida State University. The FSU president defended the idea by asserting: “Danger lies not in some speaker’s ideas. Danger lies in teaching students that ideas they don’t agree with are not important.”
Sadly, but predictably, conservative ideas [...]

Watch this excellent video from Andrew Marcus covering one of the most outrageous examples of P.C. on campus of the year.

Jason Mattera at Young America’s Foundation keeps a list of who’s been naughty on America’s college campuses.

Me, myself, and I.

Arne + Obama + Annenberg + Everyday Math = Same old, same old.

A school fight breaks out over dressing students as Pilgrims and Indians.
Crikey.
Just dress all the kids up as yams and cranberries instead and be done with it.