Tag: Charter Schools

Walton siblings, Jim, left, Alice, and Rob Walton, right, children of the late Wal-Mart Stores Inc. founder Sam Walton, appear on stage during the annual Wal-Mart shareholder's meeting in Fayetteville, Ark., June 5, 2009. (AP/April L. Brown)

Demonizing Walmart’s founding family over their support for educating the poor

Thomas Sowell · April 30, 2014 4:00 am

Attorney General Holder's threats of legal action against schools where minority students are disciplined more often than he wants are a much more sweeping and damaging blow to the education of poor and minority students across the country. (AP Photo)

Eric Holder’s crusade against schools that discipline minority students more

Thomas Sowell · April 29, 2014 4:00 am

Tulips bloom in front of the Capitol in Washington. Congress gets back to work Monday, April 28, after a two-week vacation, and it's looking like lawmakers will do what they do best: the bare minimum. Forget immigration, a tax overhaul, stiffer gun checks. They're all DOA. Raising the minimum wage or restoring lost unemployment benefits? Not going to happen. Forcing government approval of the Keystone XL pipeline? Veto bait. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

Lawmakers return to vote on business tax breaks, possible contempt charge against ex-IRS official

Susan Ferrechio · April 28, 2014 4:00 am

Editorial cartoons

Editorial cartoons: Bad apples

Washington Examiner · March 25, 2014 12:00 am

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio during a universal Pre-K event on March 4 in Albany, N.Y. (AP/Mike Groll)

Bizarre arguments and behavior on education, smoking and obesity

Walter Williams · March 24, 2014 12:00 am

Red Alert Politics

[VIDEO] Al Sharpton says we must make Newtown the next 9/11

Erin Brown · January 14, 2013 6:35 pm

Report: Charters should accommodate students of closing DCPS schools

Lisa Gartner · December 25, 2012 5:00 am

health care concept with a medical book

56 D.C. charter schools don’t have nurses

Lisa Gartner · December 23, 2012 5:00 am