Tag: Education & Family News

COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Dropped for Illinois College Staff and Students After Lawsuit

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s office on Wednesday announced that COVID-19 vaccine mandates can be dropped for colleges and universities across the state for staff and students. However, the vaccine mandates for K-12 students and daycares will remain intact, according to a news release from Pritzker, a Democrat. “Vaccine mandates for higher education employees and students…


COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Dropped for Illinois College Staff, Students After Lawsuit

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s office announced on July 13 that colleges and universities across the state can drop COVID-19 vaccine mandates for staff and students. However, the vaccine mandates for K-12 students and day care facilities will remain intact, according to a statement from Pritzker, a Democrat. “Vaccine mandates for higher education employees and students…


Back-to-School Spending to Set Record on Pricier Supplies: Report

Retailers are set for the strongest back-to-school shopping season on record as inflation drives up prices of clothes and supplies and more students return to physical classrooms after two years of pandemic-led disruption, a Deloitte forecast showed. Spending is expected to jump 5.8 percent to $34.4 billion this year, Deloitte said on Thursday, citing an…


Florida School Board Cuts Off Man Reading ‘Pornography’ Book Available in School Libraries

The Clay County School Board in Florida cut off a speaker’s microphone at its school board meeting after the man started reading a sexually explicit passage from a book that is available in local school libraries. During the public comment session of a June 30 meeting, a man identifying as Bruce Friedman expressed concerns over…


American Public Schools on the ‘Cusp’ of Major Reform: President of Heritage Foundation

Kevin Roberts, president of The Heritage Foundation and former president of Wyoming Catholic College, says that the government’s COVID-19 lockdowns, although destructive, have had the benefit of giving parents a comprehensive look through their child’s online classroom, which is riddled with an extreme and inappropriate ideology. Parents are geared up to change the system and this ideological indoctrination…


Pennsylvania Mom to Use Obscenity Law to Get Explicit Books Removed From Schools

Unable to convince local officials to remove sexually explicit materials from her child’s school library, a Pennsylvania mom intends to take the issue to federal court. She will ask a judge to remove obscene materials from all U.S. schools. “I want a nationwide emergency injunction before these kids go back to school,” Fenicia Redman told…


Parents Group Sues Tennessee School Board Over ‘Divisive and Destructive’ Critical Race Theory

A Tennessee parents’ advocacy group has announced that it filed a lawsuit on July 8 against a Franklin school board for adopting “divisive, debilitating, and racist” curriculum that teaches some children they are inherently racist based on their skin color. The complaint alleges that a curriculum called “Wit and Wisdom” includes teaching materials that are…


COVID-19 Lockdowns Damaged Speech and Mental Development of Children, Say Teachers

COVID-19 restrictions have damaged children developmentally in ways that might be irreparable, teachers say. From early childhood to high school, children rely on facial expressions, social interaction, conversation with new people, and friendships to develop mentally. Children denied social interaction don’t grow mentally in the same way. When governments closed in-person schooling for months, cracked…


HHS Grants NYU $40,000 to Study What It Calls Youngsters’ Preference for ‘Whiteness and Maleness’

Tens of thousands of federal tax dollars are flowing to New York University to uncover why kids allegedly “favor Whiteness and maleness over other identities,” official data show. The three-year project, titled “Societal assumptions regarding typical personhood and their effects on reasoning development,” will obtain a total of $40,391 from the U.S. Department of Health…


Wisconsin Supreme Court Upholds School District Policy Regarding Identity of Trans Students

The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has ruled that the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) may continue enforcing a policy that prevents school authorities from divulging a student’s transgender identity to their parents without the student’s permission. In 2018, the MMSD introduced a policy according to which transgender, gender non-conforming, and nonbinary students were considered to…