All Posts Tagged With: "NEA"
Art Needs No State Subsidies
It’s feeding time again, and artists and cultural groups are lining up at the trough. The bailout package approved by Congress in February threw another $50 million at the arts. For the better part of the past year, music impresario Quincy Jones beseeched Barack Obama to add a secretary of arts to his cabinet. In [...]
23Oct2009 | Bruce Edward Walker | 1 comment | ContinuedPower Grab: How the National Education Association Is Betraying Our Children
Consider these words of the late Albert Shanker, long-time president of the American Federation of Teachers. “It’s time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody’s role is spelled out in advance and there are very few incentives for innovation and productivity. It’s no surprise that our [...]
1Dec2000 | David Kendrick | 0 comments | ContinuedTeachers Unions: Are the Schools Run for Them?
Public education is the most expensive “gift” that most Americans will ever receive. Government school systems are increasingly coercive and abusive both of parents and students. Government schools in hundreds of cities, towns, and counties have been effectively taken over by unions, and children are increasingly exploited, thwarted, and stymied for the benefit of organized [...]
1Jul1996 | James Bovard | 2 comments | Continued-
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