Public Education
Group with radical race connections demanding $70B in slavery âreparationsâ from small Catholic university in MissouriA group claiming to represent 200 current descendants of slaves who helped build St. Louis University (SLU) in Missouri are demanding $70 billion in so-called reparations from the school. The… Read More
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Indiana AG launches âEyes on Educationâ portal to empower parental rights in public education ÂIndiana has launched an online “education portalâ where objectionable content in schools can be reported by parents, students and teachers. The office of Indianaâs Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita announced… Read More
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Teachers assaulted by students daily in Nashville public schoolsTeachers and staff assaults in Nashville are so egregious that some teachers donât bother to discipline students. Others are simply quitting. In the previous school year, nearly 350 student-to-staff assaults… Read More
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Walkouts causing additional closures in Durham, NC school district(The Center Square) â Students in Durham could be required to make up school days lost to employee walkouts over an ongoing pay dispute if itâs not soon resolved, district… Read More
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Minnesota school district to allow Muslim families to opt out of LGBT reading lessons(Daily Caller News Foundation) â The St. Louis Park public school district in Minnesota will reportedly allow Muslim families to opt out of LGBT reading lessons for students. Two public… Read More
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Half of parents want to customize their childâs K-12 education, report showsNearly half of Americaâs parents want to customize their childâs education. The new Choose to Learn 2024 report surveyed âopen-minded parentsâ to find out what sort… Read More
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Gov. Ron DeSantis calls out âbad actorsâ on curriculum transparency, promises âconsequencesâ in FloridaFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis continued to debunk the narrative that so-called âbook bansâ are occurring in Florida, saying that parents have a right to object to graphic sexual material that is… Read More
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A Florida school board votes to retain sexually explicit book in elementary school libraryIn a contentious decision, the Alachua County School Board voted 4-1 to keep the challenged book “Melissa” on the shelves of an elementary school library. The book, previously published as… Read More
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School attendance nationwide is suffering from ‘long COVID,’ report findsThe CDC will soon drop the last vestiges of COVID-19 guidelines, but the problems of the pandemic are not so easily undone in public schools. A report from the American… Read More
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Levies passing for most Spokane-area schools, but bond proposals failing(The Center Square) â Property tax levy proposals for 13 Spokane-area school districts are passing â some narrowly â but voters in five districts are rejecting long-term, multi-million-dollar bond proposals,… Read More
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Gov. Sanders vows to fulfill âpromiseâ for deaf, blind students in Arkansas with push for new facilitiesArkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders vowed to deliver a âquality educationâ for deaf and blind students in the state in an announcement at the state capitol Wednesday. â…[T]wo schools were built as… Read More
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FAFSA glitches lead US Department of Education to ease rules meant to eliminate fraudDelays by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) in rolling out the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) has forced it to relax financial rules for students and… Read More
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California school cancels contract with âWoke Kindergartenâ after backlash(Daily Caller News Foundation) â A school in California will no longer be using the services of a program called âWoke Kindergartenâ following national backlash, a spokesperson for Hayward Unified… Read More
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Yet another Harvard University official accused of plagiarism(Daily Caller News Foundation) â An administrator of the Harvard Extension School (HES) was accused of plagiarism in an anonymous complaint sent to the school Friday, according to The Harvard Crimson. Read More
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4 largest Kansas school districts continue to âcut parents out of the pictureâ on student gender issues, despite AGâs warningFour of the largest school districts in Kansas will continue to keep parents in the dark about their studentâs âtransgenderâ status despite a warning from the… Read More
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âWrong by $50 or $100 millionâ: Former Portland teachersâ union bargaining chief condemns November strike in scathing letterThe former bargaining chief of the Portland teachersâ union released a scathing letter chastising the union president and questioning the unionâs bargaining tactics after Novemberâs lengthy strike. Steve Lancaster, who… Read More
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Emerging studies show charter school performance benefits students everywhereNew studies on the efficacy of charter schools and the impact their presence has on local public schools are fueling the fire for school choice advocates. Amid debates within the… Read More
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Male high schooler discovered playing girlsâ sports since middle school, violating Florida lawÂA biological male playing on a high school girlsâ volleyball team violated Florida law, and also played on the girlsâ team in middle school. The 10th grade student at Monarch… Read More
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Kansas school district defends sending flyer from progressive group to parents(The Sentinel) â Leavenworth USD 453 distributed a flyer to parents recently announcing a day-long event at the State Capitol ostensibly to introduce students to the legislative process, meet… Read More
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University of California system spending big on inclusive bathrooms, but ânon-binary/transâ students account for just 1.9% of studentsUpdated enrollment numbers from the University of California (UC) show self-identified non-binary and transgender students account for 1.9% of the student population system wide. Most of… Read More