(Southbendtribune) Fallout continues from the spring controversy over the University of Notre Dame awarding an honorary degree to President Barack Obama, who supports abortion rights.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops went behind closed doors at their fall meeting Wednesday to discuss, among other issues, what action they should take to increase oversight of the nation’s [...]

(Yale Daily News) Starting next academic year, Yale will switch from relying on private lenders in favor of a federally funded student loans program, Yale Director of Student Financial Services Caesar Storlazzi said Tuesday.
While Yale previously resisted adopting the government’s Direct Loans program, the University announced it will make the switch even before it becomes [...]

(From the NAACP website) On November 17th, Lenny Springs joined Financial Student Aid (FSA) as Senior Advisor to the Chief Operating Officer for Traditionally Under-Resourced Schools. Springs will work with the Education Department and FSA leadership, and will provide support to traditionally under-resourced colleges and universities, including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), members of [...]

(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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

(Michelle Malkin)”They think we’re crazy. “They” are the sneering defenders of Barack Obama who can’t fathom the backlash against the president’s nationwide speech to schoolchildren next Tuesday. “We” are parents with eyes wide open to the potential for politicized abuse in America’s classrooms.
Ask moms and dads in Farmington, Utah, who discovered this week that their [...]