Tag: Education & Family News

Student Loan Debt Wipeout to Cost $24 Billion per Year, White House Says

The White House said Friday that President Joe Biden’s student loan debt forgiveness program would cost taxpayers $24 billion per year but that it considers it “fully paid for” because it’s offset by the administration’s deficit reduction. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre disclosed the Biden administration’s cost estimate for the debt wipeout program in…


Washington, DC Delays COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Students After Ruling

Officials in Washington, D.C., are delaying enforcement of the school COVID-19 vaccine mandate after a federal judge struck down vaccination requirements for city workers. Students aged 12 and older who do not receive a COVID-19 vaccine will not be barred from school until Jan. 3, 2023, the D.C. Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE)…


Federal Court Strikes Down Transgender Medical Mandate

A federal appeals court on Friday struck down a Biden administration statute that forced doctors to perform medical procedures, including gender-transition procedures, against their religious beliefs. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit unanimously upheld a lower court’s ruling in Franciscan Alliance v. Becerra which protected around 19,000 health care professionals in Franciscan Alliance,…


Federal Court Strikes Down Biden Administration’s Transgender Medical Mandate

A federal appeals court on Friday struck down a Biden administration statute that forced doctors to perform medical procedures, including gender-transition procedures, against their religious beliefs. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit unanimously upheld a lower court’s ruling in Franciscan Alliance v. Becerra which protected around 19,000 health care professionals in Franciscan Alliance,…


Teachers Who Don’t Affirm Gender Identities Accused of Harming Students

Commentary Do you remember when you first heard of the terms “non-binary” or “gender fluid”? How about “gender-expansive” or “gender non-conforming”? I bet it was within the last five years. I recently came across a guide distributed to teachers and administrators nationwide. The guide was made in partnership with the American Civil Liberties Union, the…


Trump Tears Into Biden’s Student Loan Plan: ‘Election Enhancing Money Grab’

Former President Donald Trump criticized President Joe Biden’s executive order to “forgive” billions of dollars of student loan debt, calling it an “election enhancing money grab” as the midterms approach. “Joe Biden and the Radical Left Democrats have just orchestrated another election enhancing money grab, this time to the tune of $300,000,000,000—and just like I…


Texas University Encouraging Business Professors to Warn Students of Trauma-Inducing Content

Business school professors at the University of Texas at Austin have been advised to issue warnings to students in classes of potentially offensive and traumatizing curriculum content. Richard Lowery, associate professor of finance at UT-Austin, posted part of the syllabus template on Twitter on Aug. 10 questioning its relevance. “Behold our new syllabus template at…


Biden Student Loan Forgiveness to Cost Roughly $500 Billion: Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

President Joe Biden’s plan to forgive thousands of dollars in student debt for millions of Americans and adjust repayment for others will cost roughly $500 billion, according to a nonprofit that analyzes such plans. Biden says he will cancel up to $10,000 of student debt owed to the federal government for households earning less than…


New Group Fighting Against College COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates

A new group of parents, students, and others has formed to fight COVID-19 vaccine mandates at U.S. colleges. No College Mandates is pressuring schools to rescind mandates, which have been imposed in schools across the country. “We just believe that this decision should be between the student and his physician or her physician, and colleges…


‘Astonishingly Unfair’: McConnell Bashes Biden’s Student Loan Relief, Calling It ‘Socialism’

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said President Joe Biden’s newly announced student loan forgiveness would drive up “wildly unfair redistribution” of wealth, benefitting only higher-earning elites of the country. “President Biden’s student loan socialism is a slap in the face to every family who sacrificed to save for college, every graduate who paid their…