Government
Nonprofit asks feds to investigate schoolsâ âgender-affirming careâ practices(The Daily Signal) â A conservative nonprofit asked the Federal Trade Commission Friday to look into schoolsâ use of federal funding to encourage âgender-affirming careâ for kids. … Read More
Public Education
School district letting boys in girls bathrooms likely wonât be swayed by Trump funding cuts(Daily Caller News Foundation) â The Trump administrationâs most powerful weapon against schools in recent months has been the threat of federal funding cuts. For one Virginia school district, the tactic… Read More
Government
Feds demand removal of ‘gender ideology’ from CA sex edâ (The Center Square) â Federal officials sent a letter to California ordering it remove all âgender ideology references” from the stateâs federally-funded sexual education program for at-risk youth between the ages of 10… Read More
Government
Trump HHS yanks $60M in federal funding from Harvard(Daily Caller News Foundation) â The Department of Health and Human Services has canceled another $60 million in grants to Harvard University in the latest strike by the Trump administration… Read More
Government
Hillsdale president celebrates end of ‘Soviet’ US Dept. of Education, champions local school controlThe U.S. Department of Education is a âbureaucracy-ridden systemâ with âmore employees in public education today who are not teachers than the teachers; and that means itâs sort of like… Read More
Public Education
Schools in at least 46 states embrace DEI, face losing federal funding(The Center Square) â A newly released report details thousands of schools that embrace Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies. President Donald Trumpâs recent executive order means those schools must drop… Read More
Culture
Taxpayer dollars are funding the development of a transgender voice training appThe National Institutes of Health (NIH) has earmarked more than $200,000 to fund the development of a “transgender voice training” app to help biological men sound more feminine. The initiative,… Read More
Public Education
Senate joint committee members file report on federal K-12 education funding(The Center Square) â Senate members of a joint committee on federal funding for K-12 education in Tennessee filed a separate report stating they could not agree with House members… Read More
Government
Exclusive: GOP legislation challenges Biden admin push to use federal funds for abortion(The Daily Signal) â Rep. Josh Brecheen, R-Okla., is leading Republican lawmakers in introducing two pieces of pro-life legislation challenging President Joe Bidenâs efforts to increase the number of abortions. Read More
Public Education
U.S. Department of Education declines to meet with Tennessee committee(The Center Square) â The third day of presentations for Tennesseeâs committee to examine rejecting federal funding for its K-12 schools did not include a presentation from the U.S. Department… Read More
Public Education
Tennessee committee on federal education funding begins Monday(The Center Square) â A Tennessee committee is scheduled to begin its review on the stateâs use of federal funding for K-12 education at 2 p.m. on Monday with presentations… Read More
Public Education
New analysis considers impact of Tennessee rejecting federal K-12 education funding(The Center Square) â No state has ever rejected federal funding for K-12 education, so when Tennessee looks at potentially doing that in a committee over the next few weeks… Read More
Public Education
Tennessee legislators to look into rejecting federal school funding in November(The Center Square) â With additional COVID-19 federal K-12 school funding winding down, Tennessee continues its look at what school funding would look like without federal dollars, which amounted to… Read More
Culture
In $11.3M federal fund maneuver, Planned Parenthood services expand(The Center Square) â Tennessee and Oklahoma will receive a combined $11.3 million in federal Title X money in a workaround after the states were denied that money earlier this… Read More