Tag: Education & Family News

Florida Ranks First on National ‘Education Freedom Report Card’

MESA, Ariz.—Florida is the overall winner on a national report card that measures how well states provide access to school choice and parental input into children’s education. Parents not only have a right to choose where children learn but what they learn, according to the 2022 Education Freedom Report Card of The Heritage Foundation, a…


Biden Administration Sued Over Student Loan Debt Plan

A Louisiana attorney filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration’s student loan debt forgiveness plan, representing yet another legal challenge against the program. Attorney Tommy Badeaux filed (pdf) the suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana in New Orleans and accused the White House of infringing on the Constitution’s separation of powers…


Florida Father Sues After Teacher Allegedly Hung ‘Gay Pride’ Flags, ‘Proselytized’ to Students

A Florida father has sued his son’s middle school and school district for allegedly advocating for homosexuality as an alternative way of life, which he argues violates a new state law that bans classroom discussions of sexual orientation or gender identity. Francisco “Frank” Deliu filed a lawsuit on Oct. 12 after his 7th-grade son told him…


‘In God We Trust’ Movement Seeks To Unify a Fractured Nation

One day in April, Dan Regenold was sitting at his desk, handling a $1 bill, when the words on its flip side, “In God We Trust,” seemed to leap off the paper. Regenold began to wonder: How many times had he—and many other Americans—looked at U.S. currency without giving those words, our national motto, a…


Abortion Survivors Speak Out: ‘We Are Just as Human as You’

Months after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, voters across five states will be considering ballot measures relating to abortion on Nov. 8. Some of those measures aim to expand abortion access, while others seek the opposite. But whatever voters decide, one oft-overlooked group is asking that their experiences be considered in…


Radical Gender Ideology Invades Small-Town Schools

GRANTS PASS, Ore.—When the school called his 14-year-old son to the principal’s office for refusing to say a female student was a boy, Matthew Duncan decided he’d had enough. At first, Duncan’s son thought his longtime classmate was joking when she told him to say she was a man. He refused. “You can’t do that!…


Schools Overriding Parent Authority Caused by Breakdown of Family: Sponsor of Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Bill

Florida State Rep. Joe Harding spearheaded Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill, which received the misnomer “Don’t Say Gay Bill” from the progressive left. He believes schools have become emboldened to override parental authority because there has been a fundamental breakdown of the family and the family’s role in American society. “It’s a breakdown in…


Texas Lawmaker, Parents Battle School District Over Sexual Content in Libraries

A Texas state representative and local parents say they’ve battled mostly “woke” school board trustees for almost a year to remove sexually explicit books from their city’s school libraries. “It’s been a very long story and a very big fight,” State Rep. Jared Patterson, a Republican from Frisco, told The Epoch Times. Patterson said he…


Parents Oppose LGBT Teacher Training at Pennsylvania Elementary School

When Katie Thoms learned that Fern Hill Elementary School teachers had undergone training to instruct K-5 students about gender identity, she felt disheartened. “It’s inappropriate,” she said. “This subject matter is sensitive, and it should be discussed with children and their families. It’s also a distraction from the focus on education and what the school’s…


Showdown Coming Over Race-Based Admissions as Supreme Court Prepares to Hear Arguments in Lawsuit

The future of racial quotas in university admissions will depend largely on the outcome of one of the most hotly disputed and closely watched cases of the Supreme Court’s new term. On Oct. 31, the court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in the long-running case of Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows…