Tag: Education & Family News

New York Removes COVID-19 Restrictions in Schools

August 23, 2022
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions for schools. “The days of sending an entire classroom because one person was symptomatic or tests positive, those days are over,” said Hochul at a press conference on Aug. 22. The updated guidelines come several weeks after the Centers for Disease Control and…

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Parents Say They’ve Been Harassed, Stalked, and Doxed for Criticizing School Boards

August 22, 2022
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Parents from several states say they’ve been harassed online, stalked, doxed, and reported to their employers for criticizing school boards about what they see as a tectonic shift from reading, writing, and arithmetic to the promotion of radical political and social ideas, along with extreme COVID-19 polices in the last couple of years. Substitute Teacher…

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Parents Say They’ve Been Harassed, Stalked, and Doxxed for Criticizing School Boards

August 22, 2022
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Parents from several states say they’ve been harassed online, stalked, doxxed, and reported to their employers for criticizing school boards about what they see as a tectonic shift from reading, writing, and arithmetic to the promotion of radical political and social ideas, along with extreme COVID-19 polices in the last couple of years. Substitute Teacher…

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Doctors, Lawmaker Demand Answers on Hospitalization of Young Male After COVID-19 Vaccination

August 22, 2022
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A group of doctors and a state lawmaker are demanding answers from a top university in Rhode Island after information has emerged that appears to show a student at the school was hospitalized early in the COVID-19 vaccination campaign after receiving a vaccine. Brown University, which mandated vaccines for all students, has not informed its…

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About 36,000 LA Unified Students Missing From First Week of School

August 21, 2022
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About 8.3 percent of students enrolled in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)—the second largest school district in the United States—were absent from the first week of school, according to district officials. The data released by the district shows 89 percent of students attended the first day of school on Monday, Aug. 15. That…

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Education Department Strips ACICS of College Accreditation Powers

August 20, 2022
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The U.S. Department of Education said it has terminated Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) as a nationally recognized college accreditor, capping the agency’s long-running battle with the federal government to retain its accrediting powers. Deputy Secretary of Education Cindy Marten on Aug. 19 issued a final decision to deny an appeal by…

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Yale Pediatric Program Helps ‘Gender Expansive’ 3-Year-Olds on Their ‘Gender Journeys’

August 20, 2022
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A pediatric program at Yale University has sparked an outrage after its director said it helps children as young as 3 with their “gender journeys” through “medical intervention.” Dr. Christy Olezeski, a clinical psychologist who co-founded and directs the Yale Pediatric Gender Program, was filmed describing the program as one that works with “gender expansive…

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Pennsylvania GOP Lawmakers Seek Removal of Gender Theory From Education Website

August 19, 2022
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Twenty-one Republican lawmakers in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives are calling for the resignation of acting Pennsylvania Education Secretary Eric Hagarty—unless he takes immediate action to reverse the new content requirements and guidelines set forth by the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) to promote “gender diversity” and “gender neutrality.” Gov. Tom Wolf’s press secretary Elizabeth…

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Judge Suspends Enforcement of Part of Florida’s Stop WOKE Act

August 19, 2022
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A federal judge on Aug. 18 has temporarily blocked part of Florida’s “Stop WOKE Act,” also known as the state’s Individual Freedom Act. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in April signed the measure, FL HB 7, which he called the “Stop Wrongs Against Our Kids Act,” to prohibit the teaching of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in schools, and require…

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University of California Admits Record Number of Californians, Fewer Out-of-State Students

August 18, 2022
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The University of California (UC) has shifted to favor more incoming students from California, versus out-of-state and international applicants for the 2022–23 school year. According to data released by the UC system, which has nine undergraduate campuses, 85,268 freshmen students from within the state were admitted in 2022, up 1.2 percent from the 84,223 in 2021….

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