Public Education
Survey says nearly half of all parents think taxpayers don’t get value from public schoolsA new survey released by the consumer credit company Wallet Hub found that almost half of all parents believe that public schools don’t provide a good value for the… Read More
Public Education
VCU, Richmond high school form first lab school in commonwealth(The Center Square) – The Virginia Board of Education has approved the first lab school in the state, something Gov. Glenn Youngkin has been pushing for since he took… Read More
Public Education
‘We’re paying people to hate America’: Musk and Ramaswamy blast Department of Education(Daily Caller News Foundation) – Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and Twitter owner Elon Musk ripped the current education system in the United States Friday, saying that taxpayers were… Read More
Public Education
Missouri researcher gets $500K grant to study how app helps special education students(The Center Square) – While some teenagers are discouraged from excessive cell phone use, a federally funded study in Missouri will use the technology to help high school students… Read More
Public Education
Think tank says China’s communist party targeting US school districts with nearly $20 million in influence operationsParents Defending Education (PED) has released a report that shows China’s Communist Party (CCP) spending over $17 million on programs inside American K-12 classrooms, some… Read More
Public Education
‘They’re afraid of empowered and informed parents’: Nevada sex education committee accused of bias against parents, favored LGBT-inclusive applicantsThe sex education committee for a Nevada school district favored “queer-inclusive” candidates as new members and frowned on those from a parental rights group, says one of the group’s… Read More
Courts
Parent files lawsuit after school’s refusal to release message to students about a teacher’s gender changeA parent is suing a school district over a message the district allegedly wrote and read to students about a teacher’s gender change from male to female. The… Read More
Public Education
Florida teachers’ unions suffer financial blow thanks to new paycheck lawsSeveral teachers unions are seeing a decrease in their revenue due to a Florida law that prohibits automatic paycheck deductions, according to the Tampa Bay Times. Florida teachers… Read More
Public Education
Denver school board fretted about blame for removing SROs in closed-door meeting after school shooting, recording revealsA day after a March school shooting Denver school officials held a closed-door meeting supposedly to discuss security concerns. In fact, much of the discussion was about their own… Read More
Public Education
Survey: Inflation hitting back-to-school budgets hardA new survey by a global financial services company shows back-to-school supplies in the U.S. are rising faster than the Consumer Price Index (CPI). The survey by WorldRemit… Read More
Public Education
Report sheds light on declining public-school enrollment in New Hampshire(The Center Square) – Microschools, learning pods, and other nontraditional types of learning venues continue popping up across New Hampshire as the ripple effects of COVID-19 take shape. Read More
Christian Schools
Survey reveals continued rising support for private schools, school choiceParents who have kids in private schools have more satisfaction in their kids’ education, while support for school choice increases with understanding of it, a new survey finds. Read More
Public Education
New York mandate for smaller class sizes will cost taxpayers $2B a yearA new state law will force New York City to spend nearly $2 billion taxpayer funds annually on additional teaching positions. The bill, which was signed by Gov. Read More
Public Education
California state superintendent against parents’ rights on gender kicked out of local board meetingCalifornia school superintendent Tony Thurmond was kicked out of a Chino Valley board of education meeting after he went over his allotted time and refused to yield the floor. Read More
Public Education
Education expert Corey DeAngelis warns the nation’s ‘rising tide of mediocrity’ in public education has become a tsunami, in live interview at HerzogThe danger to our children and our country from a failing education system has only mushroomed through the years, a new book urgently warns. Indeed, four decades… Read More
Public Education
‘Armed with knowledge’: National conference empowers teachers to stand up to unionsAround 200 educators attended the Teacher Freedom Summit last week, a “first-of-its-kind” conference to help public school teachers understand and stand up to the unions that claim to support… Read More
Public Education
Texas charter school requires boys be boys, girls be girls, in its two renowned choirsA Fort Worth public charter school has banned boys from the girls’ choir, and vice versa. The Fort Worth Academy of Fine Arts voted 4-2 recently to require… Read More
Public Education
Despite billions in taxpayer funding, Philadelphia’s schools are literally falling apart(Daily Caller News Foundation) – Nearly 4 in 10 Philadelphia schools were assessed and rated as having “unsatisfactory” conditions despite the district having a $3.9 billion budget paid by… Read More
Public Education
School district axed advanced math in the name of ‘equity’. Parents say it made things worse(Daily Caller News Foundation) – Parents are saying that a Massachusetts school district’s decision to axe advanced math in the name of equity has caused more harm to students,… Read More
Opinion
States should make public education more accessible through flexible, open enrollmentEarlier this year, President Joe Biden claimed he wanted “every kid, in every zip code, in every state [to] have access to every education opportunity… Read More