9-year-old Sydney Smoot, a fourth grader at Brooksville Elementary, shared her concerns on testing in schools with members of the Hernando County School Board at their regular meeting on March 17, 2015. Speaking of the Florida Standards Assessment Test, or FSA for short, Sydney told the school board that: This testing looks at me as […]
President Obama thoroughly destroyed the latest Republican budget proposal during a speech on Wednesday while speaking in Ohio at the City Club of Cleveland. You can watch the segment of the president’s speech, below, followed by a transcript of the relevant portion. TRANSCRIPT: Now, a good place to start down a stronger path involves America’s […]
President Obama took a “well-deserved victory lap” on Wednesday while speaking in Ohio at the City Club of Cleveland. As John Cassidy of The New Yorker wrote, “let’s be up front about this, he sounded a little cocky. … He had some fun at the expense of his Republican critics and their alarmist predictions about […]
President Obama was on fire during last night’s State of the Union address. Republicans have been ranting and raving about their so-called “mandate” from the American voters during the recent mid-term elections, but Obama 2.0 is anything but lame – or a duck. During the address, the President promised two vetoes. The first one came […]
President Obama smacked down Republicans over their unbridled support for what they are now calling the “Keystone Pipeline JOBS BILL” during last night’s State of the Union Speech. Speaking about the economy, jobs and infrastructure, Obama bashed the Republicans over the project, stating: Twenty-first century businesses need 21st century infrastructure — modern ports, and stronger […]