Public Education
North Carolina releases guideline for AI in schools, encourages educators to ‘rethink plagiarism and cheating’The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction released artificial intelligence guidelines on Tuesday to “direct responsible implementation” of AI in public schools. The guidebook’s implicit goal is to strike a… Read More
Public Education
Washington official certifies student parent rights initiative, sends to Legislature(The Center Square) – The Washington Secretary of State’s Office has formally certified Initiative 2081, which would give parents of public school students the right to review educational and health material and… Read More
Courts
School board member and his brother arrested on felony child porn chargesThe vice president of a North Dakota school board has been arrested and charged with five felony counts for possessing prohibited content involving minors. Joel Opp, the vice president of… Read More
Public Education
National group gives Illinois poor rating on policies that support reading instruction(The Center Square) – A national teaching organization is giving Illinois poor marks on policies to improve reading instruction. The National Council on Teacher Quality published a … Read More
Public Education
Ohio teacher required ‘major brain surgery’ after being assaulted by a student, who may have been under the influence of drugsA 16-year-old student was arrested in Ohio after his alleged assault on a teacher left her suffering from a traumatic brain injury. After an initial investigation,… Read More
Public Education
Michigan schools to get 45 e-buses costing $5.9M in Federal taxpayer funds(The Center Square) – School districts in Detroit, Lansing and Pontiac will each receive $5.9 million in federal funding to buy 15 clean-powered school buses apiece. The funding flows from… Read More
Courts
Iowa appeals injunction on law banning sexually explicit books in schools(The Center Square) – Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird said Friday she is appealing an injunction that kept a law banning sexually explicit LGBTQ books in school libraries from taking… Read More
Culture
‘What’s next?’: Dem assemblywoman rips Biden, Adams over NYC school’s use for illegal aliens(Daily Caller News Foundation) – A New York state assemblywoman from New York City blasted President Joe Biden and Democratic Mayor Eric Adams after a high school was temporarily closed… Read More
Public Education
New Mexico has the nation’s 2nd worst public schools despite spending increases(The Center Square) – New Mexico ranks among the worst states in the country for public education despite substantial spending increases in recent years. Rankings released by Forbes… Read More
Courts
Coalition of AGs support parents’ rights against school pronoun policies in SCOTUS brief(Daily Caller News Foundation) – A group of Republican attorneys general filed a brief before the Supreme Court Thursday backing parents seeking to sue a Maryland school district over a pronoun… Read More
Culture
Critics: Proposed Title IX changes would threaten viability of women’s sports(The Center Square) – The Biden administration has proposed sweeping changes to expand the nation’s law prohibiting sex discrimination in the nation’s schools to include gender identity and sexual orientation. Read More
Public Education
Some Kansas school districts send board members to training from NSBA, which likened parents to ‘domestic terrorists’(The Sentinel) – At least 25 state school board associations canceled their membership with the National School Boards Association (NSBA) after it labeled parents “domestic terrorists,” but… Read More
Culture
Watch: Parents speak out after their daughter was told to sleep with a boy who identified as a girl(The Daily Signal) – Parents Joe and Serena Wailes were shocked and horrified to discover that their 11-year-old daughter had been assigned to not only room with, but also share a… Read More
Public Education
Missouri school district offers coloring pages on preferred pronouns, gender expression to kindergartners(The Daily Signal) – A Missouri school district is providing elementary-school teachers with coloring pages, asking children as young as kindergartners to choose their pronouns and draw the… Read More
Public Education
Kansas school funding exceeds $20,000 per student adjusted for cost of living(The Sentinel) – New data from the Kansas Department of Education show school funding was $17,650 per student in the 2023 school year, but adjusted for the cost of living, spending… Read More
Public Education
Virginia school rankings yields a rural surprise(The Center Square) – U.S. News & World Report recently released its rankings of Virginia K-12 public schools, and the results are primarily unsurprising – except for one school that placed second… Read More
Courts
An ‘activist organization,’ not a school: Father files $3 million lawsuit alleging discrimination against heterosexuals, cisgendered in Denver Public SchoolsClaiming his young sons are inundated with “LGBTQIA+” pride flags at school but can’t respond in kind, a father is suing a Colorado school district claiming the practice discriminates against… Read More
Public Education
Teacher shortage? For decades, public schools have enjoyed hiring sprees(The Daily Signal) – Pop quiz time. “Teacher shortages have gotten worse.” True or false? False. And yet, that sentence was part of a recent Washington Post headline. And it’s… Read More
Public Education
Middle school course tells students to explore sexual identities, ‘understand the politics of privilege’(Daily Caller News Foundation) – Long Beach Unified School District in California is offering courses to children encouraging them to explore their sexual identities and study social justice, according to… Read More
Opinion
The root cause of the insanity on college campuses is older than you may think(The Daily Signal) – Americans are finally catching on that the oppressor-oppressed narrative being taught in our schools and universities is not a conspiracy theory disseminated by conservatives. It’s real. Jewish students… Read More