Education
CAGW Names Sen. Chuck Schumer August Porker of the Month
For Immediate Release Contact: Curtis Kalin 202-467-5318 August 29, 2016
$30 Million in Pell Grants for Prisoners
On June 24, 2016 President Obama announced Second Chance Pell, a $30 million pilot program that would fully fund tuition, books, and related expenses for approximately 12,000 inmates to pursue college degrees. This program would expand Pell Grants...
Changing the Prescription for America’s Public Universities
It is much easier to take a pill than to overhaul a lifestyle. The word “free” was the prescription offered by some in the presidential primaries to millennials in order to ease the crushing burden of skyrocketing student debt. However, the...
CAGW Releases September 2015 WasteWatcher
For Immediate Release Contact: Curtis Kalin 202-467-5318 September 16, 2015
The Looming Federal Student Loan Bubble
As college students across America return to school this month, there is a lot of controversy over how their bills, and those of former students, are being paid. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, student loan debt hit an all-time...
Back to School: Hillary Clinton’s College Plan Gets an “F”
For Immediate Release Contact: Curtis Kalin 202-467-5318 August 20, 2015
114th Congress: The New Sheriff(s) in Town (Senate edition)
In the last 60 years, since Republicans relinquished their Senate majority to the Democrats on January 3, 1955, the Grand Old Party has controlled the United States Senate for only 16 years (plus four months*), and they shared control with the House...
Fiscally Drunk and Disorderly
In spite of the decisive drubbing that President Obama and his party sustained in the mid-term elections, he continues to gallop along on his (gift) horse, proposing all kinds of new government spending programs, as if nothing has changed. His...
CAGW Releases September WasteWatcher
For Immediate Release Contact: Alexandra Booze 202-467-5318 September 11, 2014
Schoolhouse Crock
On September 7, 2014, ABC television asked viewers to rank the best songs from the bygone “Schoolhouse Rock” series of educational vignettes. At first, this might sound like a fun diversion from daily realities. But for adults in the public policy...
CAGW Releases August Wastewatcher
For Immediate Release Contact: Alexandra Booze (202) 467-5318 August 9, 2014
Rotten to the (Common) Core
Starting in mid-August, children began returning to classrooms across the country. The individuals who work in school districts have the most personal (and visceral) contact of any level of government, especially since parents entrust them with...
