Frances Floresca

Frances Floresca is a freelance reporter and educational policy analyst.

Culture
Parental rights advocates call out Indiana professor for op-ed against parents

An Indiana assistant professor is being criticized after pitting parents’ rights against children’s “right to learn to be free thinkers” in a column for the Indianapolis Star. Sarah J. Reynolds,… Read More

July 13, 2023
Courts
Mom slapped with restraining order by PTA president suspected of harassment

The president of a Utah school’s parent teacher association filed a restraining order against a mother whom she allegedly harassed. Jennifer Auwerda, the president of the PTA at Hillcrest Junior… Read More

July 13, 2023
Public Education
Nation’s largest school district recommends book about transgender child for students in grades 3-5

(Daily Caller News Foundation) – The nation’s largest school district recommended a book about a transgender child for elementary students to read over the summer. “I… Read More

July 11, 2023
Christian Schools
Small town Christian microschool to grow out of Arizona church, showcasing promise of school choice for rural America

Snowflake is a small Arizona town of nearly 7,000, with a public school, charter school and Lutheran school. Next year, it will have its first microschool. When local resident Laurie… Read More

July 5, 2023
Public Education
‘I was shocked’: Minnesota mother exposes ‘highly sexually graphic’ books in school district

Minnesota mother Natalie Sonnek knew parents were complaining about sexually explicit books, but never thought she’d find them in her own child’s school library. She was wrong. LaDawn Severin, another… Read More

June 29, 2023