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Culture
Megyn Kelly details how dem city school indoctrinates children to ‘hate’ America

(Daily Caller News Foundation) – Political commentator Megyn Kelly detailed Monday on her show how a New York City school, which her children previously attended, is indoctrinating children to “hate”… Read More

May 14, 2024
Public Education
New report outlines three steps to create public school choice in all 50 states

Thirteen years ago, Kelley Williams-Bolar went to jail for sending her daughters to a public school outside their residentially zoned district. Now, education reformers are trying to break down what… Read More

May 13, 2024
Public Education
Tuesday primary to narrow Nebraska Board of Education candidates in District 4. Who are they?

In two of the four Nebraska Board of Education primaries May 14, three candidates are vying for the top-two spots in Districts 2 and 4 for the ballot in November’s… Read More

May 10, 2024
Public Education
Straight F’s lead to second call for Education Secretary Cardona to resign

(The Center Square) – Grades of F overall, and in each of five specific areas with active hot-button issues, were given by a North Carolina congresswoman chairing a committee hearing… Read More

May 10, 2024
Courts
Student sues school district after suspension for using term ‘illegal alien’

A 10th-grade student’s family has filed a lawsuit against a North Carolina school district after it suspended him for using the term “illegal alien” in class. Read More

May 10, 2024
Public Education
Arkansas will sue Biden administration if state is challenged over Title IX

(The Center Square) – Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Arkansas would sue the Biden administration if it pulls education funding over Title IX. The governor signed an executive order… Read More

May 3, 2024
Public Education
Evidence for illegal electioneering on bond issue mounts in St. Joseph, Missouri school district

The superintendent, director of communications and other St. Joseph, Missouri school district (SJSD) employees used district resources to coordinate and promote the yes campaign in a school bond issue that… Read More

May 2, 2024
Opinion
‘Systematically excluded’: How public schools still segregate based on zip codes

Seventy years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that public schools couldn’t segregate students based on race. But public schools still… Read More

April 30, 2024
Public Education
US Census Bureau: K-12 education spending up 9%, largest increase in two decades

The U.S. Census Bureau announced America’s K-12 education funding rose by 9% – the largest increase in more than 20 years. In a Thursday press release,… Read More

April 29, 2024
Opinion
This Kansas City-area school district used to take in education refugees; now it may be creating them

Whither do you flee when the county to which you fled needs fleeing? This is the uncomfortable question more than a few Johnson County, Kansas, residents find themselves asking. A… Read More

April 26, 2024
Public Education
Parents file $100M unfair labor practice complaint vs. Portland teachers’ union over 2023 strike

Parents have filed an unfair labor complaint against the Portland teachers’ union, claiming its strike last November was illegal and necessitates restitution for the harmed families. The… Read More

April 26, 2024
Public Education
Michigan school district cancels first-grade pronoun lesson

(The Center Square) – DeWitt Public Schools canceled an optional “mini-lesson” for first-graders that would have taught they/them pronouns after parent reactions went viral on social media. DeWitt Public Schools… Read More

April 23, 2024
Public Education
Texas Education Agency takes over more public school districts

(The Center Square) – The Texas Education Agency is continuing to take over failing public school districts. The most recent takeovers include Socorro ISD and Marlin ISD. The TEA appointed… Read More

April 23, 2024
Government
Hobbs vetoes bill requiring party affiliation listed for school board races

(The Center Square) – Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed legislation that would  have required a school board candidate’s party affiliation to be listed on the ballot. Read More

April 23, 2024
Public Education
‘That is not a religion’: DeSantis bars satanists from Florida school chaplaincy program

(The Daily Signal) – The Sunshine State is now welcoming chaplains into public schools, but Satanists need not apply. On Thursday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, signed a bill into… Read More

April 23, 2024
Public Education
Two new members appointed to Missouri State Board of Education

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has appointed two new members to the State Board of Education. Parson announced last week his appointments of Tawni Hunt Ferrarini and Thomas G. Prater to… Read More

April 18, 2024
Public Education
Teachers, American public both pessimistic about future of education

Neither teachers nor the American public are optimistic about the present state of education, new research reveals. Pew Research Center has released two new studies that found general dissatisfaction with… Read More

April 15, 2024
Courts
Virginia school administrator indicted by special grand jury in elementary school shooting

The former assistant principal at the Newport News, Virginia elementary school where a 6-year-old student shot his teacher has been indicted for child abuse. The unsealed indictment states that Ebony… Read More

April 11, 2024
Courts
Former Colorado bus aid arrested for assaulting autistic students

A former Colorado public school paraprofessional was arrested last week after surveillance footage showed her assaulting a severely autistic, non-verbal student on a school bus. Kiarra Jones, a former bus… Read More

April 10, 2024
Public Education
Wisconsin directs federal IDEA funds toward racism, equity workshops

(The Center Square) – A project housed under the Wisconsin Department of Education is using federal special education funds to pay speakers to provide instruction to teachers on race, equity… Read More

April 9, 2024