The Department of Justice (DOJ) says it plans to “promote religious freedom” in schools, particularly for Muslim students who allegedly experience “discrimination” or “bullying” from other students in the nation’s public schools.
A private school, designed primarily for LGBT youth and teachers, is scheduled to open in September in Atlanta, Georgia.
Led by an activist, left-wing teacher, high school students at Chicago’s Roosevelt public high school recently engaged in a boycott aimed at changing the way school lunches are made and delivered to kids in the Chicago public school system.
The nation’s largest abortion provider Planned Parenthood announced in a tweet Wednesday that it is working with militant LGBT groups to promote sex-related curricula in schools. The groups want all students to get instructions on the lifestyles of “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth.”
During floor speeches, Republican lawmakers claimed the bill “reduces the federal role” in education – even though it extends federal oversight of education to formally include pre-school instead of only grades K-12. They also say the measure would stop the federal government from coercing states to implement the Common Core standards – a point that is hotly debated by conservative activists who say the bill actually cements the Common Core further.
Ahmed Mohamed’s lawyers are demanding $15 million, according to letters to the city of Irving, Texas, and Irving Independent School District (ISD) that list their grievances. While it is possible that on one or more issues Mohamed might have a claim, most—if not all—of this lawsuit appears meritless.
Facebook mogul Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have announced they will fund a private comprehensive preschool and K-8 school for disadvantaged children in the East Palo Alto area.
Illegal immigrant students have a right to a quality, taxpayer-funded education that prepares them for college and a career, according to the Department of Education.
California Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed a bill that would have mandated the creation of a uniform ethnic studies course for public schools in California.
Politico has issued a notice to GOP 2016 contenders: “Common Core has won the war.”
The existing escalation of Syrian refugees is but an entrée, a taste of things to come. The ten thousand President Obama announced recently, on top of 1,500 already accepted this year, is the beginning of the migration, not the end.
In a decade, the graduating high school class of 2025 is expected to be the largest and most racially diverse on record, with white students making up just half the class, according to a recent analysis.
Middle school parents in Tennessee are up in arms on learning that their children were instructed to recite and write, “Allah is the only god,” as part of a world history project.
According to the New York Times, while Dale Russakoff’s new book, The Prize: Who’s in Charge of America’s Schools? has just hit bookstores Tuesday, it is already “a source of enormous contention.” It begins in 2010 when Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg became the subject of much media attention as he announced on Oprah that he would throw $100 million into Newark, New Jersey’s failing public school system.
As the Chicago Public School District’s budget continues to crash, officials have announced the next round of layoffs, with over 450 employees getting the axe in schools across the city.
The California Policy Center has just published an exhaustive study regarding the $149.2 billion Californians have borrowed over the last 14 years to finance public school construction. Despite the sob stories about dilapidated facilities, huge amounts of cash has been siphoned off due to union project labor agreements, environmentalist lawsuits, and inadequate planning and public oversight.
The personal finance social network WalletHub ranked public school systems around the nation, and found that California’s ranked as the ninth-worst. Factors measured by WalletHub included: Test results in reading and math Remote-learning opportunities from online public schools Dropout rate
Now students as young as sixth grade have ready access to taxpayer-funded birth control, without ever having to tell mom and dad.
The number of homeschooled children in the United States has soared nearly 62 percent over the past decade, and national homeschooling organizations are anticipating even further growth in home education as a result of the Supreme Court’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide.
Nearly 10 percent of the nation’s K-12 enrollment in public schools were “English Language Learners” (ELLs) during the 2012-2013 academic calendar, according to a new fact sheet from the Migration Policy Institute.
“Community schools” is not a widely-known term, but today representatives in the Texas State House will vote on House Bill 1891, entitled “Relating to Texas Community Schools” – legislation that would, if passed, fundamentally change the role of public education in students’ lives, in ways that conflict with Texas values.
Results of the “Nation’s Report Card” released this week by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) show that only 18 percent of 8th-graders are “proficient” or above in U.S. history, and only 23 percent are proficient in civics.
Slowly we’ve witnessed an erosion of local control in public education across this country, though it hasn’t been as obvious since the Obama administration began the latest reform dubbed “Common Core.”
A year after the Obama administration issued new school discipline policies based on the concern that students of color are “disproportionately impacted” by suspensions and expulsions, a journalist proposes the liberal policies–based in social justice ideology–are making schools less safe.
Among the news items at the radical Zinn Education Project this month is a post highlighting the work of Alison Kysia, author of “A People’s History of Muslims in the United States: What School Textbooks and the Media Miss,” part
In a state where leftists use the public schools to promote their socialist ideology with impunity, imagine my surprise when a teacher handed out a flyer promoting racism: “In order to challenge racism and dismantle white supremacy, white people need to unlearn racism and discover the ways we enact white privilege.”
The Broad Foundation, disappointed with the lack of progress in urban school districts, has suspended its $1 million scholarship prize.
The star of last year’s “Camp Gyno,” the popular video about the first girl at camp to get her period and feel empowered by it, returns to the Internet now as a middle-schooler who makes some bad decisions and must deal with the consequences.
A New Jersey public school principal was reassigned this week after a large sign with two misspelled words was posted for more than a week outside a school entrance. NorthJersey.com reports that Antoinette Young, the principal of School 20 in
A New Hampshire father who protested his 14-year-old daughter’s class assignment of a book containing a sexually explicit scene had charges against him dismissed on Thursday. According to CBS Boston, a judge said the actions of William Baer, 50—whose objections
