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By: Patrick Hedger, Policy Director-American Encore
The complaint that Congress “does nothing” or reports claiming the previous Congress was “the least productive in history” are somewhat annoying. Supposedly seasoned politicos like to make this point as if they are offering something insightful when in reality they are simply tallying the number of bills passed by a Congress in its two...
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...
