Topic: Education
December 16, 2009
Missing pledge to double after school funding by 97 percent
Not only did the president sign the 2010 obmibus appropriations bill in a hurry, the Education Department’s portion of the bill missed the mark Barack Obama promised during the campaign: To double funding for after school programs.
July 13, 2009
Lying about the education secretary’s success in Chicago
A new report says Barack Obama misled the nation by using fudged numbers to trump up Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s performance as head of Chicago schools.
May 10, 2009
Barack Obama and Joe Biden will send us all to college!
While speaking to a group of students at Bellevue Elementary School in Syracuse, N.Y., Veep Joe Biden promised to open up the checkbook and pay for everyone to go to college.