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By: Patrick Hedger, Policy Director-American Encore
With graduation season upon us, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is ramping up the talk on higher education and the growing levels of student loan debt. There is no doubt that student debt is an issue that is stunting economic growth in this country and leaving behind a lost generation of overqualified and underemployed youth. The...
By: Patrick Hedger-Policy Director, American Encore
Today Arizona Governor Doug Ducey made a smart move against a dumb system that is failing American students nationwide. Governor Ducey called on the State Board of Education to scrap the controversial “Common Core” standards handed...
By: Patrick Hedger-Policy Director, American Encore
Defenders of Mesa School District’s Superintendent Michael Cowan have sought to discredit the revelation that Cowan only spends half of the district’s money in the classroom and only a dismal one-third on compensating the district’s teachers.
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez of the Arizona Republic reported that according to a Cowan...
Today marks a truly seminal milestone in American history. Exactly 150 years ago today, on March 4, 1865, from the steps of the Capitol, the newly re-elected 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, gave what he considered his greatest speech, his second inaugural address to the nation.
Watch American Encore's latest video and tribute to Abraham Lincoln's important speech...
Regulation:
One need not be a member of a Jewish or a Christian faith to be familiar with the Ten Commandments. According to scripture, Moses descended from Mount Sinai with two stone tablets that were given to him by God. Inscribed on them were God’s rules for man. Ten was good enough for God. In 2013 alone, the federal government handed down 3,659.
Just like...
