Politics
Democrat push to hike taxes on energy companies will help no one, analysts warn(Daily Caller News Foundation) – Oil industry advocates are blasting Democratic proposals to hike taxes on major oil companies, arguing that they would punish shareholders without lowering fuel prices. Read More
Culture
The Founding colonies – RI, CT, NJ, DE, MD, Washington D.C. remind Americans where this nation began at The Great American State Fair(Editor’s note: A series on The Great American State Fair, held in Washington, D.C., in honor of America’s 250th birthday, written by Heartlander News interns.) As colonies… Read More
Public Education
Rhode Island public schools overspend tax dollars, underdeliver on academicsA new report says Rhode Island is wasting taxpayer dollars on a public school system failing in student learning. A brand-new analysis from the Rhode Island Public Expenditure… Read More
Courts
Federal lawsuits target Rhode Island, Massachusetts over in-state tuition for illegal immigrantsThe U.S. Department of Justice sued Rhode Island and Massachusetts this week over state laws that allow some illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition at public colleges and universities. Read More
Government
Rhode Island lawmakers pass anti-hazing legislation for public-school sportsUnder a bill passed June 8 by Rhode Island representatives, all state student-athletes would need to abide by an anti-hazing policy or face penalties and sanctions. “As a… Read More
Government
Rhode Island at crossroads on school choice, warns education advocateMore than 600 people jammed the Rhode Island State House earlier this month to speak against a bill that would restrict the growth of charter schools. Read More
Culture
3 dead, 3 injured after a man claiming to be a woman opens fire at RI hockey gameThree people are dead and three others hospitalized in critical condition after a man who identified as a woman fired shots Monday afternoon at a high school hockey match… Read More
Government
Suspect in Brown University killing found dead, also suspected of MIT murder(The Daily Signal) – The suspect in last weekend’s fatal shooting at Brown University has been found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a storage unit he… Read More
Public Education
Brown University shooting victim ID’d; person of interest released (The Center Square) — Authorities are continuing to search for a lone gunman who killed two Brown University students, including the 19-year-old vice president of the elite college’s Republican… Read More
Public Education
9 in 10 Rhode Island school districts have policies to hide student gender information from parentsNearly 90% of Rhode Island’s public schools would hide a student’s transgenderism from parents, according to their written policies. Parents Defending Education (PDE) examined all of Rhode Island’s… Read More
Public Education
Rhode Island district bucks state on transgender policies, urges others to do the sameOne school district is leading the fight against the trans agenda, and others may follow suit. After the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) released a plan for… Read More
Public Education
Parental rights advocate challenges ‘political indoctrination’ at Rhode Island school district(The Daily Signal) – Rhode Island mom and parental rights advocate Nicole Solas was sued by teachers unions in 2021 after she requested public information… Read More
Public Education
Collusion: Rhode Island school district sends 8,800 pages of emails to SPLC, docs show(The Daily Signal) – When concerned mom Nicole Solas requested all emails from her Rhode Island school district to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the request turned up more than… Read More
Public Education
Rhode Island teacher says DHS ‘media literacy’ program targets conservatives as dangerous extremistsA teacher in Rhode Island is crying foul about a federal program teaching students to report those who express conservative ideas as potential “extremists.” The “media literacy” program… Read More
Public Education
‘We should never notify parents on these issues,’ school board member says of student gender status, citing suicide riskA Rhode Island school district’s newest board member, an appointee, says parents shouldn’t be notified about most issues, especially children’s status in transgender cases. “Not all parents… Read More
Public Education
41 students arrested at Brown University following anti-Israel campus protestOfficers arrested 41 students at Brown University after students broke school policies by refusing to leave the University Hall in an anti-Israel protest. “Brown University issued multiple trespass… Read More
Public Education
Book banning? Rhode Island school district trained teachers to ‘purge’ music library of ‘discriminatory’ contentA school district in Rhode Island has been caught training its teachers to “decolonize” the music room. The training from 2020 only came to light recently, thanks to… Read More
Public Education
Rhode Island Dept. of Ed. trains teachers to use woke, pro-LGBT tools on studentsA parental rights advocate blew the whistle on the Rhode Island Department of Education’s teacher training involving an “intersectionality wheel” that encouraged teachers to be an “LGBTQ ally.”… Read More
Government
Memo reveals how teachers’ union worked on bill to keep sexually explicit books in schools(Daily Caller News Foundation) – Democratic lawmakers privately negotiated with the nation’s largest teachers union to craft a bill intended to combat bans of sexually explicit books in schools,… Read More
Public Education
Parents outraged over Amazon gift card offer to students by LGBT ‘focus group’ via Rhode Island middle school newsletterParents are furious over an apparent attempt to incentivize students to participate in an LGBT focus group by offering a $15 Amazon gift card. The offer was… Read More
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