... Janet Napolitano is at [1]. The Department of Education is also involved in the suit due to parts of the Alabama law that involve immigration.
The DOJ says they filed the suit "after consultation with the Alabama governor, Alabama attorney general and Alabama law enforcement officials", which might imply that Gov. Robert Bentley helped them. Yet, that doesn't appear to be the case (link):
"All...
Earlier this year, spending by the Department of Education was cut by $750 million at least temporarily by ending or cutting back literacy and other programs. One of those affected was the organization Reading Is Fundamental; all the $24.8 million they were getting from the feds was eliminated. You can read their impassioned plea here, and EdWeek has a round-up of the cuts here. Federal spending...
The White House blog has a completely unpresidential post called "10 Reasons We Need The DREAM Act" [1] in which staffer Stephanie Valencia [2] promotes - and misleads about - the anti-American DREAM Act. That bill would let the illegal aliens covered by it take college educations away from U.S. citizens and, depending on the version, would allow states to give some illegal aliens a better...
... frustration."
...According to Giffords, the (Department of Education) canceled a convention set for October at a Tucson resort after the Mexican government said it would not send any representatives to the meeting. The department then moved the event to Minnesota.
Further, her office said the Border Patrol "verbally" canceled a conference set for May at a resort in Prescott after an official...
... “corrected” lesson plans the U.S. Department of Education is suggesting that schools around the country use to turn President Obama’s speech to students today into a “teachable moment” still call for teachers to read books about Obama and to post quotations from Obama in large print on classroom walls.
I've included below some choice quotes from the two lesson plans (for younger and older...
Arne Duncan of the U.S. Department of Education writes (ed.gov/admins/lead/academic/bts.html):
...President Obama announced that on September 8 - the first day of school for many children across America - he will deliver a national address directly to students on the importance of education... This is the first time an American president has spoken directly to the nation's school children about...
In this video segment from 2004, Margaret Spellings [1] described how Bush's original "guest" worker scheme would be open to *everyone*, specifically mentioning nurses, teachers, and high-tech workers. In brief, president Bush wanted to open (most of) the U.S. labor market to the world, including (previously) middle-class occupations.
Oddly enough, the Democrats completely failed to highlight...