9.7 Million Twitter Users Reached During #StopCommonCore Twitter Rally
9,788,450 Twitter users to #StopCommonCore to call on ordinary citizens to join and lobby for repeal of Common Core State Standards.
Tag: American Principles Project
It’s Inflation, Stupid!
American Principles Project on Tuesday released a new paper by Marc A. Miles, Ph.D., that challenges the claim by the Federal Reserve that inflation is low.
Glenn Beck Blasts the Common Core
Glenn Beck shined a spotlight on the Common Core State Standards in his show on The Blaze TV saying it is one of the greatest problems we now face.
Restoring Sound Money: What States Can Do
Rich Danker of American Principles Project offers steps that states can do to help restore sound money in the United States.
Why the Common Core State Standards Should Be Stopped
Jane Robbins of American Principles Project explains in a five-part video series why we must stop the Common Core State Standards from being implemented.
ALEC Delays Vote on Anti-Common Core Model Resolution
I’m not surprised, but disappointed by the American Legislative Exchange Council executive board decision yesterday to delay their vote on a anti-common core resolution proposed by the American Principles Project, Goldwater Institute, and Washington Policy Center last summer. American Principles Project sent out a press release on the vote: Washington, DC – Today, the board [...]
What Will It Cost Iowa to Implement the Common Core State Standards?
The Pioneer Institute, American Principles Project and Pacific Research Institute released a study of how much it will cost the 45 states and the District of Columbia to implement the Common Core State Standards. President Obama offered up $4.35 billion in stimulus money through his Race to the Top program. The start up costs nationally [...]
How Much Will Implementing the Common Core State Standards Cost South Carolina?
The Pioneer Institute, American Principles Project and Pacific Research Institute released a study of how much it will cost the 45 states and the District of Columbia to implement the Common Core State Standards. President Obama offered up $4.35 billion in stimulus money through his Race to the Top program. The start up costs nationally [...]
Common Core State Standards Estimated Cost is $16 Billion for States
Cost far exceeds sums doled out in federal grants used to persuade states to adopt BOSTON/WASHINGTON, D.C./SAN FRANCISCO – Aligning state and local educational systems to the Common Core State Standards in English language arts and math will cost the 45 states plus the District of Columbia that have adopted them nearly $16 billion over [...]
Is The U.S. Dept. of Education Violating Federal Law by Directing Standards, Tests & Curricula?
BOSTON, MA —Despite three federal laws that prohibit federal departments or agencies from directing, supervising or controlling elementary and secondary school curricula, programs of instruction and instructional materials, the U.S. Department of Education (“Department”) has placed the nation on the road to a national curriculum, according to a new report written by a former general [...]
The Growing Tide Against National Education Standards
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) met last week in Scottsdale, AZ. They are an organization whose mission is “to advance the Jeffersonian principles of free markets, limited government, federalism, and individual liberty, through a nonpartisan public-private partnership of America’s state legislators, members of the private sector, the federal government, and general public.” They have [...]
Religious Freedom vs. State’s Nondiscrimination Statutes
Caffeinated Thoughts contributor Emmett McGroarty & Jane Robbins both of whom work for American Principles Project remind readers in a recent op/ed for The Public Discourse how the religious freedom of individuals have been violated in order to defer to the homosexual agenda: The denigration of religious freedom extends to areas of purely private, commercial [...]
In Case You Missed It: Video of American Principles Project’s Palmetto Freedom Forum
Last Monday, Labor Day, American Principles Project hosted the Palmetto Freedom Forum in Charleston, SC. It was an interview, if you will, of five different Republican candidates for President. The panel of interviewers consisted of Congressman Steve King (R-IA), Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), and Dr. Robert George (founder of American Principles Project). They asked Minnesota [...]
Gingrich, Bachmann Impress at American Principles Project’s Palmetto Freedom Forum in South Carolina
I wasn’t able to watch the American Principles Project’s Palmetto Freedom Forum in Columbia, SC live yesterday since I was out with my family enjoying Labor Day. So I recorded its broadcast on CNN and watched it last night. Regardless of the criticism that this forum has taken this week, unjustly in my opinion, I [...]
Rick Santorum and the Palmetto Freedom Forum
As the Iowa Director of the American Principles Project, I’m very proud that our organization is hosting the Palmetto Freedom Forum Debate on Labor Day, Monday, September 5. It will be broadcast on Townhall.com and CNN at 2:00 PM (CST)/3:00 PM (EST). Since announcing the lineup of candidates attending, however, supporters of Rick Santorum and [...]
Robert George: Mitt Romney Misses Opportunity to Make a Case to Grassroots
Dr. Robert George, founder of American Principles Project (who is sponsoring the Palmetto Freedom Forum) and McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University offered his response to former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney’s decision to skip out on the Labor Day forum in South Carolina: Naturally, I’m disappointed that we will not have Governor Romney with [...]
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