Tag: Department of Education

Former Lt. Governor Jane Norton said she was spurred to try to win Colorado Democrat Michael Bennet's U.S. Senate seat by what she sees as the dramatic expansion of government in the Obama era. In stump speeches, emails and interviews, she has vowed to work to cut federal spending as a way to end the "government takeover" of the private sector. One of the ways Norton proposes to trim spending is to eliminate the federal Department of Education. That dramatic proposal has predictably shocked members of the left-leaning Colorado politics-blogosphere, but it also surprised at least one conservative member of the small crowd gathered two weeks ago at the Lamplighter restaurant in Alamosa, where Norton reportedly first unveiled the proposal.

Goodbye, CSAP. Hello, what? That’s the question in Colorado, as the Department of Education starts work next month on replacing the current mandatory state...

CEO of the Chicago schools Arne Duncan will be named secretary of education at a press conference on Tuesday at a Chicago-area school, The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder is reporting Monday afternoon. The choice came down to Duncan, Denver Public Schools Superintendent Michael Bennet and John Schnur, an Obama education advisor and CEO of the New Leaders for New Schools organization, The New Republic reported earlier Monday afternoon.