Public Education
Court: Virginia county canât enforce mask rules, must expunge punishments(The Center Square) â A court ordered that Loudoun County, Virginia Public Schools cannot enforce its mask mandate on students and will need to expunge studentsâ records if they had… Read More
Public Education
Kansas transparency bill would require teaching materials to be posted onlineKansas lawmakers rocked the stateâs education establishment this past week with a bill that requires all teaching materials to be posted online. SB 393… Read More
Public Education
Youngkin signs bill to ban mask mandates in Virginia schools(The Center Square) â Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed legislation Wednesday afternoon that allows parents to opt their children out of public school mask requirements, effectively banning mandates on public… Read More
Public Education
Teachers unions spent big to get mandates and closures in Illinois(Brett Rowland | The Center Square) â Teacher unions have used campaign spending, political organization and collective bargaining power to influence policy decisions during the pandemic. Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker and… Read More
Public Education
Some Dems holding out while others drop mask mandates in about-face(Brett Rowland | The Center Square) â Some teacher unions have lashed out in Illinois this week after a judge issued a temporary restraining order halting Gov. Read More
Public Education
Op-Ed: Mistreating children as âfollowing the scienceâ(David S. DâAmato | The Center Square) â For roughly two years, parents of small children and even toddlers have been forced to mask them, to cover the faces of… Read More
Public Education
Loudoun County prepares to arrest maskless children in schoolsCan you imagine young students being arrested for going maskless in school? Unbelievably, some public school officials are doing more than imagining it. A leaked email… Read More
Public Education
Lawmakers press education secretary after suicide attempt by elementary student over gender transitioningTwo Republican lawmakers sent a letter to US Education Secretary Miguel Cardona in response to reports that a Florida elementary student attempted suicide after conversations with school officials… Read More
Public Education
Indiana Senate passes bill that would remove obscene books from school libraries(Margaret Menge | The Center Square) â The Indiana Senate passed a bill Tuesday aimed at removing what the legislation called obscene material from schools, and it would allow the criminal… Read More
Homeschools
Homeschooling numbers surge in Virginia during pandemic and public education conflictAfter two years of extraordinary growth, approximately 62,000 homeschool families in Virginia now represent about 5 percent of the state’s total public school enrollment â one of the… Read More