Our wonderful guest speakers for the Second Annual Celebration of Life Unity Breakfast 

Irene Napier speaking after receiving the Henry Hyde Celebrating Life Achievement Award 4/2/2011

Irene Napier is presented with the inaugural Henry Hyde Celebrating Life Achievement Award 4/2/2011

2/16 Town Hall-Dr. Mark Neerhof, of Docs 4 Patient Care discusses the current health care situation

2/16 Town Hall-Brian Kelly, of Patriots United, leads the question and answer session of the evening.

Our esteemed panelists from the Real Health Care Reform Concepts Town Hall meeting on February 16th, 2011

Jan. 12th Town Hall: Executive Director Brian Kelly begins the event

Jan. 12th Town Hall: Manzullo's Congressional Director of Communications, Rich Carter, answers questions about the new 112th Congress

Jan. 12th Town Hall: Patriots United Board Member Maida Korte speaks passionately about "The 5000 Year Leap."

Jan. 12th Town Hall: Political Consultant Jim Thacker shares insights and observations on the recent 2010 General Election and the work ahead.

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Public Education

Ever wonder how federal spending on education can consistently and dramatically surge while basic test scores remain static? The National Center for Education Statistics recently compiled some revealing data, which was editorialized with corresponding graphs in Investors Business Daily last week.

The data demonstrates that despite no improvement in scoring, federal spending per pupil has increased by 375% from 1970 to 2010. Most of this is due to the expanding bureaucracy of public education, including a 12-fold increase per-pupil in salaried bureaucratic positions like "instructional aide."

Author Neal McCluskey, who recently penned "Feds in the Classroom: How Big Government Corrupts, Cripples, and Compromises American Education," added that however burdensome the expanding bureaucracy, "the main problem of public schools is not bureaucracy but lack of competition." As the editorial reminds, vouchers and other forms of school choice would not only allow parents an option when confronted with their own failing districts, but also force public schools to compete, and thereby improve

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