Christie's Good Fight

As a Democrat – and a fairly liberal one by the standards of where I live – it isn’t that often that someone on the right really knocks my socks off. Let alone a Republican! Yet that is exactly what happened on August 25th. From the comfort of my own living room I watched Gov. Chris Christie of …

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Written by Jamie McFadden on Tuesday August 30, 2011

Would You Defend THESE Teachers?

Steve Brill  writes at reuters.com about the "Rubber Rooms" in which New York stashes teachers who have been removed from the classroom pending arbitration of complaints about their performance. How to know whom to believe? I could read the thousands of pages of testimony offered by both …

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Written by FrumForum Editors on Monday August 22, 2011

Daniels' School Reforms: Too Smart for Tea Party?

In Indiana, Gov. Mitch Daniels has instituted a broad set of education reforms. Unlike many on the right, he’s not out to destroy public education but to save it. Mitch Daniels is regularly held up as one of the best examples of a “serious” and policy-minded conservative. Wednesday in Washington, …

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Written by Noah Kristula-Green on Thursday May 5, 2011

The GOP's Hardest Sell

Using social issues to rally the base isn't enough. Eventually, the GOP has to speak to middle-class anxiety and actually sell their proposed spending cuts. A few weeks back, I wrote for Frum Forum on the ongoing battle in Alabama between Republican legislators and the state’s two largest …

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Written by Will Barrett on Friday April 22, 2011

GOP Must Make School Vouchers a Civil Rights Issue

Students in Prince George's County in the D.C. area arrived on the first day of school to find that administrators still had not scheduled classes for them. This failure will certainly have an adverse impact on black students in the county with the largest black middle class in the country. …

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Written by Henry Clay on Wednesday September 2, 2009