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After spending decades in a private collection, a resurfaced letter written by America’s first president praises God ...
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Attorney General William Barr says he intends to ensure that the Justice Department ...
Unions expect nonunion teachers to help pay for LGBT leadership programs, among other “human rights” activities. (Photo: Kham/Reuters/ /Newscom)
A large California teachers union and its national affiliate are forcing nonunion teachers to pay for political activism, according to a disclosure form acquired by The Daily Signal.
Under a category called “human rights,” both the National Education Association and the California Teachers Association require nonunion teachers to finance LGBT leadership training and other political goals that may run counter to the teachers’ convictions, The Daily Signal’s analysis of the disclosure form shows.
The form shows that unions charged $1.1 million in “human rights” costs to nonunion teachers
Modal Trigger President Barack Obama and Housing Secretary Julian Castro Photo: AP; Gregory P. Mango
Hillary’s rumored running mate, Housing Secretary Julian Castro, is cooking up a scheme to reallocate funding for Section 8 housing to punish suburbs for being too white and too wealthy.
The scheme involves super-sizing vouchers to help urban poor afford higher rents in pricey areas, such as Westchester County, while assigning them government real-estate agents called “mobility counselors” to secure housing in the exurbs.
Castro plans to launch the Section 8 reboot this fall, even though a similar program tested a few years ago in
There is no easy fix to balance the budget in the short-term. (Photo: iStock Photos)
Romina Boccia focuses on federal spending and the national debt as the deputy director of Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies and the Grover M. Hermann fellow in federal budgetary affairs at The Heritage Foundation.
Brian Drockton is a member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation.
In an ideal world the federal government would collect all of the taxes that it was owed—and then spend only what it intended to. Unfortunately, things aren’t that simple.
The tax gap and improper payments serve as reminders that the
Ron Boltz will be CEPTA’s Guest on Tuesday evening.
Ron Boltz meets with citizens on 76
Ron Boltz, Vice President of the Pennsylvania Liberty Alliance and a Pine Grove School Board member, will be the guest speaker at the May 17th CEPTA meeting. The meeting is held at the Emmaus Fire Hall, Sixth and Broad Streets in Emmaus at 7:30 pm.
Mr. Boltz will be speaking on the benefits of SB/HB 76-the School Real Estate Tax Elimination Act and the political activism needed to get this bill passed. As you may recall, last November the Pennsylvania Senate voted 24 to 24 on SB76 with Governor Wolf’s Lt. Governor casting the critical “no vote” to defeat the bill. Four SB76 Senate
In a crucial victory for both students and teachers, the Protecting Excellent Teachers Act passed the Senate yesterday with a vote of 26 to 22.
HB 805, championed by Rep. Stephen Bloom, provides that public school teachers are retained based on effectiveness in the classroom—not merely seniority—in the unfortunate event of furloughs. A seniority-based system punishes young, effective teachers who excel in the classroom but have not racked up sufficient service time. This is unfair. HB 805 ensures our best teachers remain in the classroom, helping every child reach their maximum potential.
The legislation now moves to Gov. Wolf, whose options are clear: Side with the teachers’ unions which oppose the bill or
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., speak with reporters in the U.S. Capitol. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Newscom)
Rob Bluey is editor in chief of The Daily Signal, the multimedia news organization of The Heritage Foundation.
Gone were the days of omnibus spending bills and continuing resolutions—or the dreaded combination of the two, known as a CRomnibus. In their place would be a
With April 15 come and gone, let’s have a look at how well the Federal government has been doing for itself in recent years.
It turns out things have been going quite well. In 2015, Federal receipts (well over 90 percent of which comes from taxes) hit an all time high of 3.2 trillion in 2009 dollars. In real terms, that’s the highest level ever reached.
Naturally, revenues dropped, when measured year over year, from 2008 to 2009 due to the recession at the time. However, revenue began to quickly grow again, and has now rebounded well above what it was at the end of
Brett D. Schaefer is the Jay Kingham fellow in International Regulatory Affairs at The Heritage Foundation. Schaefer analyzes a broad range of foreign policy issues, focusing primarily on international organizations and sub-Saharan Africa. Read his research.
Steven Groves is the Bernard and Barbara Lomas Senior Research Fellow in Heritage’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom. He advocates American leadership on issues involving international political and religious freedom, human
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