Public Education
School busts 2nd teacher in less than a month for selling porn on OnlyFans(Daily Caller News Foundation) â A second teacher at a Missouri school has been placed on leave after administrators learned she was selling adult content on OnlyFans, the Post Dispatch… Read More
Courts
‘Weâve got to protect kids’: Missouri AG joins 32 others in suit against social media giant for being addictive and harmful for childrenMissouri has joined 32 other states in suing Meta, parent company of Facebook and Instagram, alleging it has knowingly harmed the mental health of minors by making its social media… Read More
Public Education
Missouri school board dodges federal âguidanceâ to enact sexual orientation, gender identity clauses â and officials warn other districts not to fall for itSteve Makoski sees the role of a school board member as protecting schoolchildren â even from the president of the United States. He feels he and three of his Springfield,… Read More
Public Education
Missouri school board likely to add sexual orientation, gender identity to non-discrimination policy, bending to federal pressureWould the Biden administration stop feeding Springfield students if the school board doesnât bend to its will on gender identity policies? Thatâs the central question behind Tuesday nightâs vote by… Read More
Public Education
Missouriâs top education official Margie Vandeven announces retirement ÂMissouri Commissioner of Education Margie Vandeven announced Tuesday she would officially retire on July 1, 2024. âServing as Commissioner of Education for the great state of Missouri has been the… Read More
Public Education
Public summer learning loss program for middle schoolers hosted by Missouri private school(The Sentinel) â An innovative new program based out of Thomas Jefferson Independent Day School in Joplin, Missouri, is hoping to make a difference in student achievement with a four-week summer… Read More
Public Education
Class at Washington University in St Louis claims nutrition is racist, urges students to promote puberty blockers despite new Missouri lawWashington University School of Medicine in St Louis is pushing the idea that nutrition is somehow racist, and is still advocating for cross-sex hormones despite a new Missouri law banning… Read More
Courts
âItâs not the parentsâ damn business.â School board members draw suit from Missouri AG Bailey over closed meeting to hide bathroom policy from parentsA Missouri school board is being sued by the stateâs attorney general for illegally holding a closed meeting in an alleged effort to keep its bathroom policy from public discussion. Read More
Culture
Kansas City librarian derides parents as âpeople who canât let other people have opinionsâ in front of audience of high school studentsAs Senior Teen Librarian at the Plaza Branch of the Kansas City Public Library, Kelsey Bates says she gets to âlive my dream of creating a warm and welcoming space… Read More
Homeschools
Upcoming âHeartland Hybrid and Microschools Summitâ in Kansas City set to grow education freedom movementIf education is the final frontier in American freedom, its pioneers and homesteaders are meeting in Kansas City next weekend to map the open prairie and help each other plant… Read More
Culture
Sen. Hawley boycotts Big Techâs private âcocktail partyâ in Senate, warns of AI consequences for childrenCalling it a âcocktail partyâ for Big Tech, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley refused to attend a Senate meeting with the countryâs most powerful IT execs Wednesday to discuss the dangers… Read More
Culture
St. Louis Childrenâs Hospital stops prescribing puberty blockers and hormone treatments to minors in compliance with new Missouri lawWashington University officials announced Monday their doctors will no longer prescribe puberty blockers or hormone treatments to minors through its Transgender Center at St. Louis Childrenâs Hospital. The decision was… Read More
Public Education
Second Kansas City-area school district lowers bar for grades; new bottom is 50%, âany effortâ earns 60%Students in a Kansas City-area school district who do no work could end a course with 50% on their record, and with âany effortâ receive a minimum of 60%. Thatâs… Read More
Legislation
Illinois lawmakers react to Missouri law protecting minors from transgender procedures(The Center Square) â Gov. J.B. Pritzker says he will support any family who moves to Illinois from Missouri after a new law in the Show Me State bans procedures… Read More
Courts
AG: Missouriâs landmark injunction halting Biden administration censorship of conservatives clears the path for free speech in 2024 electionMissouriâs historic injunction against Biden administration censorship of online conservative speech, upheld by an appeals court Friday, sets the rules of engagement for the 2024 election decidedly in favor of… Read More
Public Education
Missouri Democrat blocks national school choice expert online but canât escape public backlash against her anti-choice hypocrisyA heated debate on school choice took place over the weekend on a Missouri Democratâs social media page â though she quickly blocked the national expert who called her out… Read More
Public Education
Bidenâs Secretary of Education in St. Louis for school tour to ‘raise the barâ after government lockdowns set kids backU.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona was in St. Louis Wednesday as part of the Biden administrationâs “Back to School Bus Tour 2023: Raise the Barâ event. But critics told… Read More
Public Education
Missouri, Kansas rank No. 1 and No. 2 in this alarming school sex assault category, while Biden admin focuses on âgender discriminationâ insteadÂStatistics released by the U.S. Department of Educationâs (DOE) Civil Rights Data Collection unit shows Missouri schools rank first in rapes and attempted rapes, behind Kansas and Massachusetts. âComparatively, the… Read More
Courts
Missouri school district faces federal lawsuit from outspoken parent it banned from district propertyAs one Missouri school district resumes classes, it awaits a court date over a lawsuit filed last month by a parent who says he was banned from the school for… Read More
Public Education
St. Joseph, Missouri Board of Education member cries foul over âcoded languageâ in new member ethics policy meant to muzzle dissentA board member of a Missouri school district is denouncing a new ethics policy that he says contains âcoded languageâ meant to muzzle his First Amendment rights. St. Joseph School… Read More