Someone was telling me about this yesterday and I didn’t quite get what I was being told, but Senator Robert Menendez is holding up two of Barack Obama’s key climate/science appointees, John Holdren and Jane Lubchenco, over an unrelated Cuba policy dispute: The delay — which could ...

Earlier this week, Michelle Rhee, the Chancellor of the DC public schools, was trying to sell her plans to reform the city school system in the pages of the Post Op-Ed section. The core of her proposal is to provide a large boost to teacher salaries in exchange for them giving up tenure and agreeing...

Jason asks: Are there really any strong reasons for the 111th Senate to adopt Rule 22 (60 votes for cloture)? I don’t really want to do an analysis of the short-term of the short term politics, spin, and ethics surrounding this issue beyond noting that back during the “nuclear optionR...

NRG/Maariv is reporting that Eli Yishai, the Chairman of Shas and the Minister of Industry, said in an interview today about the conversion situation that "the Mafdal politicians will all end up being Reform jews. When we vote in the Knesset against the Reform, they [Mafdal] vote in favor of the Ref...

From it’s inception, the primary focus of No Child Left Behind was supposed to be improving the reading skills of American students. And, as part of that effort, the law required the use of “scientifically-based research” to find the methods that would best accomplish that goal. Wh...