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    <title>Kyle Olson's Townhall.com Column</title>
    <description>Kyle is Publisher of EAGnews.org, a news service dedicated to education reform and school spending research, reporting, analysis and commentary.

He recently appeared in a weekly "Fox &amp;amp; Friends" segment called "The Trouble with Schools" on the Fox News Channel.

His second documentary film is "A Tale of Two Missions," featuring Juan Williams. His first book, "Indoctrination: How 'Useful Idiots' Are Using Our Schools to Subvert American Exceptionalism," can be purchased here.

Kyle is a contributor to Townhall.com.

He has made other appearances on Fox Business Network, NPR and MSNBC. Kyle has given scores of interviews on talk radio programs coast to coast. His work has been cited by the Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck.

He graduated from Michigan State University in 2001.

While Kyle likes talking politics, he especially likes to talk about his family, as well as his favorite music. Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Johnny Cash are at the top of the list. He has attended 24 Bob Dylan shows.

Kyle can also be found on Facebook and Twitter.
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      <title>Days After Terrorist Bombing, Boston Leaders Honor Radical Anarchist Protest </title>
      <description>Just days after a terrorist bombing and subsequent manhunt gripped Boston and the rest of the nation, one would think city leaders would be hesitant to honor radicals seeking to overthrow the government and the...</description>
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      <title>What Students Won't Learn During California's Labor History Month</title>
      <description>California lawmakers don't simply like labor unions. They love them.

So much, in fact, that they recently eliminated Labor History Week from the state law books and replaced it with Labor History Month, with the...</description>
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      <title>Chicago Activist Teacher Group Circulates Two-Week 'Lesson Plan' on School Closures</title>
      <description>Is this what Common Core-compliant school lessons are going to look like?

Activists with the Chicago group "Teachers for Social Justice" have produced a two-week lesson plan to teach students about Mayor Rahm...</description>
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      <title>School Board Memorializes 'Relentless Champion of Freedom' Margaret Thatcher</title>
      <description>There must be something in the mountain streams that inspires a love of freedom in Douglas County, Colorado.

A few years ago, the school board created a first-of-its-type county-wide school voucher program, giving...</description>
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      <title> Karen Lewis Lays Bare Chicago Teachers Union's Mission: Build and Maintain Power</title>
      <description>When Karen Lewis spoke to the recent "Occupy Department of Education" protest in Washington, D.C., she neatly explained the lens through which the union makes all of its decisions.

See the outrageous video...</description>
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      <title>Chicago Teachers Union Prez Attacks Individualism, Free Markets in Education</title>
      <description>MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry isn't the only one cheering for collectivism in education.

Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis thinks that idea is pretty swell, too.

Speaking at the Occupy Department of...</description>
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      <title>Indoctrination by Crossword</title>
      <description>Eighth-graders in Wisconsin's Union Grove school district were assigned to fill out a "Liberalism vs. Conservatism" crossword puzzle, and they learned some new and very questionable "facts."

Students learned...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Superintendent's Shocking Comment Reminds Us That School Choice is an Uphill Battle</title>
      <description>Is this really what the education establishment thinks of parents, particularly black parents?

As Wisconsin legislators debate expanding the state's parental choice private school voucher program, Racine Unified...</description>
      <link>http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KyleOlson/2013/04/10/superintendents-shocking-comment-reminds-us-that-school-choice-is-an-uphill-battle-n1562467</link>
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      <title>Scott Walker's Collective Bargaining Reform Blunting Sting of Obamacare Premium Increases</title>
      <description>When Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker passed his controversial collective bargaining reforms known as Act 10, little did he know he would be easing the pain of pending increases in health insurance premiums caused by...</description>
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      <title>Chicago Teachers Union President Mocks 'Wet Hen' Rahm Emanuel for 'Stamping His Little Feet' in Anger</title>
      <description>There she goes again. Karen Lewis just can't help herself.

The Chicago Teachers Union president appeared before the New York Collective of Radical Educators March 16 to give the keynote address at the group's annual...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 04:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Chicago Teachers Union President Laughs About Lying to Parents, Turning Students Into "Hostages"</title>
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Why is our government education system so dysfunctional? Perhaps because parents often don't get the truth and administrators and teachers are constantly fighting each other.

That much can be discerned from the...</description>
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      <title>Wisconsin School Agency Now Hiding its 'White Privilege' Agenda From Taxpayers</title>
      <description>Wisconsin School Agency Now Hiding its 'White Privilege' Agenda From Taxpayers

The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction is suddenly obsessed with stamping out all signs of its "white privilege"...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 04:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>War on Easter? Schools, Cities Planning Another Round of 'Spring Egg Hunts'</title>
      <description>In our increasingly politically-correct society, Christmas isn't the only holiday too hot to handle for school districts. Easter, another holiday rooted in Christian faith, is now being marginalized by governmental...</description>
      <link>http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KyleOlson/2013/03/21/war-on-easter-schools-cities-planning-another-round-of-spring-egg-hunts-n1543966</link>
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      <title>Union Activist Jumps the Shark by Suggesting 'Jaywalk for Education Justice' Campaign</title>
      <description>American Federation of Teachers President Rhonda "Randi" Weingarten's arrest last week for blocking an entrance to a public meeting was seen as a bold move by those seeking to protect the status quo in education.

Her...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 04:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Note to Union Teachers: If You Want to be Treated Like Professionals, Act Like It</title>
      <description>I was deeply troubled when video surfaced last week of striking Strongsville, Ohio teachers heckling substitute teachers who were applying to be their temporary replacements. 

Over 300 teachers are on strike because...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 04:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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