(www.dailybreeze.com) The real secretary of education, the joke goes, is Bill Gates.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been the biggest player by far in the school reform movement, spending around $200 million a year on grants to elementary and secondary education.
Now the foundation is taking unprecedented steps to influence education policy, spending millions to [...]

(AP) CHICAGO – The president of the University of Illinois plans to resign following reports that the school admitted politically connected applicants over more qualified ones, Gov. Pat Quinn said Wednesday.
Quinn said President B. Joseph White’s resignation was imminent and that university trustees would select an interim president as a national search for a permanent [...]

In a nearly party line vote, Congressional Democrats decided you don’t need a bank to get a college loan…you need Uncle Sam.  According to the AP the vote broke down as follows:
A “yes” vote was a vote to pass the bill.
Voting yes were 247 Democrats and 6 Republicans.
Voting no were 4 Democrats and 167 Republicans.

(Associated Press) WASHINGTON – “The House voted Thursday in favor of the biggest overhaul of college aid programs since their creation in the 1960s — a bill to oust private lenders from the student loan business and put the government in charge.
The vote was 253-171 in favor of a bill that fulfills nearly all of [...]

(ABC11) RALEIGH, NC (WTVD) — “A subcommittee of the North Carolina Board of Community Colleges voted Thursday to approve a policy that would allow illegal immigrants to attend classes.
The full board was scheduled to take up the issue Friday.
The policy would allow immigrant students who graduate from a U.S. high school to pay out of [...]

(Atlanta Journal-Constitution) Donna Johnson credits a state voucher program for helping the nephew she is raising to get through high school successfully, even if it was 162 miles from home.
She used the Georgia Special Needs Scholarship to send Torri McClain to Mill Springs Academy in Alpharetta in search of a brighter future. The teen, diagnosed [...]

By Nicole Papageorge
Story Created: Sep 9, 2009 at 6:55 PM EDT
(Winknews.com)COLLIER COUNTY – Wink News cameras were rolling as the Executive Director of the teacher’s union is arrested for a DUI.
Deputies say 43-year-old Jonathan Tuttle flipped his green suv on Goodlette Frank road Monday night.
Tuttle told deputies a dog ran in front of his car [...]

In New York teachers can spend years sitting, doing literally nothing, while collecting a pay check in the rubber rooms….(VIDEOS)

Read the following and guess who is supporting Obama’s “non-Socialist” healthcare reform plan…
“Within our country, the Obamajority is needed to take to the streets in support of health care with a public option paid for by reversing the obscene tax giveaways to the super rich during the Bush years. If health care reform fails, it [...]

(by John Mariani / The Post-Standard)
Syracuse, NY — Vice President Joe Biden will chair a meeting of the White House Task Force on Middle Class Families during his trip Wednesday to Syracuse, Biden’s office announced Monday.
Biden will lead a panel discussion on college access and affordability. Panelists will include Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Education Secretary [...]