Shanxi Omoniyi

Shanxi Omoniyi is a staff writer for The Lion. She also serves as Online Content Director at Midwest Parent Educators (MPE), a nonprofit organization serving thousands of homeschool families not…

Homeschools
Homeschooling continues to rise nationwide for reasons ‘as varied as homeschoolers themselves,’ Newsweek reports

NYC mom Kymberly Kent founded a homeschool program in 2017 to help other parents provide a customized, quality education much like the one she gave her eldest daughter, Samantha. Read More

December 4, 2025
Public Education
Massachusetts public-school staff missed average of 12 days in 2024-25, report concludes 

Public schools nationwide are still wrestling with high chronic student absenteeism after the COVID-19 pandemic – but what happens when staffers also skip attending?… Read More

December 3, 2025
Public Education
Lowering proficiency standards fails students for life after high school, commentary warns 

Forget reading, writing and arithmetic – the real “R” public schools are teaching these days is “reducing (academic) rigor” by lowering proficiency standards, a commentary in The Hill argues. Read More

December 3, 2025
Public Education
New Mexico district prepares to implement weapons detection systems amid record number of firearms brought to campuses

A New Mexico district has approved more than $4 million to install weapons detection systems after a record number of firearms taken to schools this year. “The (Albuquerque… Read More

December 2, 2025
Courts
Wisconsin school district sued after refusing to provide curriculum material from Christian publisher

A public-interest law firm is suing a Wisconsin school district for denying a mother’s online curriculum choices for her child because of the publisher’s Christian affiliation. Lighthouse Learning… Read More

December 1, 2025