Two-thirds of nearly 500 U.S. school superintendents surveyed described moderate to high levels of culturally divisive conflict in their school district over race, LGBTQ+ student rights, and book access that is disrupting education and costing U.S. schools billions of dollars, according to a report released Wednesday by academics at four universities.
Maryland: With November’s school board elections approaching, the issue of book bans will once again appear on the ballot in the form of some races between conservative candidates and their opponents.
Commission members are already saying they may need more time. The earliest the recommendations could be included in the state budget is fiscal year 2027.
It's telling about the state of Maryland's Democratic leadership that it labels the side backing religious freedom, which includes minorities, as “extremists.”
An Oklahoma mother is outraged by a teacher secretly showing a “highly sexualized” movie about drag queens to her daughter’s class. Catherine Davis told local media her daughter’s Union High School theater teacher in Tulsa screened the film Kinky Boots to his class before fall break.
Report: The extensive 2024 Title IX regulations were not the product of a rogue agency. Just as the 2020 regulations they replaced were the consequence of Trump’s election, the 2024 rules were the result of Biden’s election victory. This shows that the problem with administrative rules is not always a lack of political accountability but sometimes quite the opposite: Regulatory agencies acting in an era of a polarized and closely divided nation produce rapid swings in public policy.
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.