Public Education
Youngkin disputes several Virginia media reports on divisive concept tip line(The Center Square) â Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin is disputing several news reports that claimed every school superintendent in the state opposed his tip line to report divisive concepts taught… Read More
Public Education
Remedial Ed audit finds systemic deficiencies in KS school system(The Sentinel) â A recently released state audit disclosed that about a third of Kansas high school graduates took at least one remedial course in college. High school and college educators… Read More
Public Education
Gov. DeSantis signs bill ending end-of-year Florida Standards Assessment test(The Center Square) â Gov. Ron DeSantisâ signed SB 1048 into law, which replaces the Florida Standards Assessment test, the major end-of-year exam students take with a new assessment called… Read More
Culture, Public Education
Arizona Senate passes education transparency bill(The Center Square) â The Arizona Senate passed a bill this week that would increase academic transparency. In a 16-13 vote along party lines with Republicans favoring the… Read More
Public Education
New Florida civics curriculum available for fourth graders(The Center Square) â A new civics curriculum is available for Florida fourth graders, and all Florida residents will have access to it online for free. The Florida Department of… Read More
Public Education
Rochester Schools paid $188,750 to settle lawsuit over district’s dossier of critical parents(The Center Square) â Rochester Community Schools (RCS) paid $188,750 to settle a lawsuit accusing the district of collecting a dossier of parents critical of school policies… Read More
Public Education
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has to sue to obtain public records. What chance do ordinary citizens have?The attorney general of the Show-Me State canât get the Missouri School Boardsâ Association to show him open records. Thatâs the assertion in a lawsuit filed by Missouri Attorney General… Read More
Public Education
Oregonâs woke curriculum revisions include all students, even kindergartenersOregon has set new curriculum guidelines that include making kindergarteners understand their âidentityâ and focusing on other issues related to race, gender and religion. The revised… Read More
Public Education
Seattle students breathing easier without mask mandate while union still pushes masks(The Center Square) â Seattle Public Schoolsâ (SPS) newly appointed Superintendent Brent Jones presented his first state of the district address on March 15 with no mention of the lifted… Read More
Legislation, Public Education
Former Miami-Dade County Public Schools superintendent brings education choice vision to nationâs second-largest school district(reimaginED) â In a letter to members of the Los Angeles Unified School District community â families, students, educators and staff â newly seated superintendent Alberto Carvalho, who took the… Read More
Legislation, Public Education
Georgia Senate kills school-choice bill(The Center Square) â The Georgia Senate has killed a bill that would have allowed Georgians to put taxpayer money toward the cost of private school tuition. Read More
Public Education
South Florida mom shares how school choice scholarship offered haven to bullied daughter(reimaginED) â On this episode, reimaginED Senior Writer Lisa Buie talks with Cherie Sanders, mother of a thriving eighth-grader at a faith-based school in the Fort Lauderdale area. Sandersâ daughter… Read More
Public Education
Rochester parent sues school district for thwarting FOIA requests(The Center Square) â Rochester Community School District in Michigan has received an âincompleteâ grade for its response to a Freedom of Information Act request from a parent seeking curriculum… Read More
Public Education
Despite new guidance, Biden admin still requiring toddlers in Head Start to remain maskedEnd the federal mask mandate for the Head Start program. Thatâs the message congressional Republicans are sending to the Biden administration. New York Rep. Elise Stefanik… Read More
Public Education
Teachers union strike in Minneapolis enters second week as potential âmake up daysâ accumulateHundreds of Minneapolis teachers union members are on strike for a second week, demanding better wages, reduced class sizes and mental health support. And teachers are threatening to… Read More
Public Education
Education analysts: Schools’ COVID-aid spending could send new hires off a fiscal cliff again(The Center Square) â As school districts across the country grapple with declining enrollments induced by the pandemic, many are engaged in spending sprees like those of the past, leading… Read More
Public Education
Games schools play: Is the government bribing kids to get vaccinated?Kids will do just about anything for a sticker. But the very qualities that make children eager for a reward are being exploited by the government… Read More
Public Education
Georgia Senate approves bill to ban teaching âdivisive conceptsâ(The Center Square) â Georgia teachers would be banned from teaching âdivisive conceptsâ in the classroom under legislation passed by the Georgia Senate. Senators voted, 34-20, in favor of… Read More
Public Education
Op-Ed: Teacher union bossesâ monopoly powers are putting South Dakota schools at risk(The Center Square) â Today, more than 30 states have laws on the books empowering government union bosses to speak for all employees in a unionized school, even those who… Read More
Public Education
Op-Ed: Milton Friedman’s role of government in education“It’s a disgrace that there is more illiteracy today than there was 100 years ago.” â Milton Friedman For decades after the American Revolution, our parents were the drivers of… Read More