Food for thought was on the agenda for the La Conner School Board's Monday luncheon meeting. Board members and district administrators met separately with two student groups over pizza to elicit input on campus topics ranging from attendance and preferred teaching styles to areas in need of improvement, class sizes and schedules and the new cell phone free policy.
Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have two drastically different plans for education in America.
Democratic Vice Presidential nominee and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has decided to put some of the state’s Department of Natural Resources funds — roughly $10,500 — toward funding the “Queer Unity, Environmental Education, and Recreation for Youth” (QUEERY) program.
WASHINGTON – A coalition of Muslims, Jews, Christians, twenty-five states, parents, and legal scholars asked the Supreme Court yesterday to ensure that parents can opt their children out of storybooks that push one-sided ideology on gender and sexuality. In Mahmoud v. Taylor, the Montgomery County Maryland Board of Education took away parental notice and opt-outs…
A federal court has ruled that a Pennsylvania first-grade teacher violated parents’ rights by teaching students about transgender identity during a lesson for Transgender Awareness Day.
A California dad is taking action after claiming his children’s school district won’t allow him to opt his kids out of lessons that violate the family’s sincerely held religious beliefs.
The language of the “Equal Rights Amendment” would empower the legislature and governor to sign laws that would force me to help my son change genders — or else.
Goldwater Institute attorneys were in federal appellate court in Boston last week defending a Maine mom’s constitutionally protected parental rights.
Opinion - Look at schools’ websites, their trainings, mission statements, textbooks, curricula, and yes, even your child’s homework assignments. Corporate America is beginning to turn away from institutional DEI. It’s time schools got back to basics, too.
New evidence shows harmful Critical Race Theory is taught in Washington public schools
Colt Black, a school board candidate in Frederick County, says: “Books which contain extreme violence or are sexually explicit, which glorify these things with no academic value, should be removed."
A federal judge has shielded Escambia County School Board members from having to testify in a legal battle about the removal of children’s books from school libraries.
Teaching is the easiest job in the world to do badly and the hardest to do well. But it’s harder than ever for even the most fiercely committed teacher to stay true to his or her core mission—raising student achievement—given the spiraling demands on teachers.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – America First Legal (AFL) secured an important victory for the parents of Cedar Grove, New Jersey, when the U.S. Department […]
Opo-Ed: There can be little doubt the forces of disruption--COVID, culture war, and chronic absenteeism, among others--have come for American education.