Legislation in South Carolina that would prohibit the teaching of critical race theory (CRT) in K–12 classrooms was approved by the state’s House of Representatives on April 21. House Bill 5183, or the South Carolina Transparency and Integrity in Education Act, seeks to prevent “ideological and viewpoint biases” from being presented as fact instead of…
South Carolina Legislation to Prohibit Discriminatory Teaching in K–12 Classrooms Advances
April 23, 2022
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Teachers Union Head Says Parental Rights Bills Are ‘The Way in Which Wars Start’
The American Federation of Teachers has doubled down on opposition against Florida’s efforts to affirm parents’ role in their children’s upbringing, with its leader claiming the newly-signed education law would spark hatred and wars. “This is propaganda. This is misinformation,” AFT President Randi Weingarten said during an interview on the Rick Smith podcast last week….
LA Unified Fills Half of Teacher Vacancies With District Staff, Finalizing Reassignments
April 22, 2022
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LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has temporarily filled nearly half of its vacant teaching positions with administrators and district staff, with plans to finish these reassignments this week. Earlier this month, LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho—who took office in February—announced plans to fill about 420 vacant teaching positions with administrators and other staff…
Tennessee Bill Would Allow Teachers to Use Students’ Biological Sex Rather Than Preferred Pronoun
A bill introduced in the Tennessee legislature seeks to allow teachers not to use a student’s preferred pronoun if it is inconsistent with their biological sex. Introduced last month by State Sen. Mike Bell (R-Riceville), the bill, SB 2777, would apply to all employees of public schools and local education agencies (LEA) and absolve them…
Florida Releases Examples of ‘Problematic’ Textbooks Featuring Critical Race Theory Elements
The Florida Department of Education (DOE) released Thursday examples of “problematic elements” in instructional materials, which include references to tenets of critical race theory (CRT). The examples’ publishing followed the DOE’s Monday announcement to “reject publishers’ attempts to indoctrinate students” with ideologies such as the CRT. In one of the pictures shown on Florida’s DOE…
Dartmouth College Demands $3,600 ‘Security Fee’ for Republican Student-Hosted Online Event
April 22, 2022
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Dartmouth College has demanded its Republican students pay a $3,600 “security fee” for an online event they hosted earlier this year featuring independent journalist Andy Ngo. The Jan. 20 event, titled “Extremism in America,” was originally planned to include an in-person panel discussion with Ngo, who has long been a target of harassment and violent…
North Carolina Foundation Lobbies State Legislature to Enact Parental Bill of Rights
April 22, 2022
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A parental Bill of Rights has been drafted in North Carolina to give parents more authority over their children’s public school education as well as to encourage legislative action. The John Locke Foundation (JLF)—a nonprofit research institute in Raleigh, North Carolina, that examines issues of freedom, personal responsibility, and limited constitutional government—wrote the potential contract…
University of Pittsburgh Contacted NIH to Help Respond to Criticism of Fetal Organ Experiments
The University of Pittsburgh reached out to top National Institutes of Health (NIH) officials to help it respond to criticism of experiments using fetal organs, according to newly released emails. Calls for a probe were triggered after documents showed the government, including the NIH, awarded millions to the school for a program that used aborted baby…
Disappearing Hispanics: Pennsylvania Lists Just 16 Hispanic Inmates in State Prisons
April 21, 2022
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The racial makeup of prison inmates has long been a topic of interest in discussions of policymaking and social issues. Daily records are kept of prison populations to study demographic trends. For example, black Americans are overrepresented in prison, a fact that informs many policy debates. Blacks make up just over 13 percent of the…
Massachusetts Parents Sue School District for Hiding Child’s ‘Alternate Gender Identity’ From Them
A public school district in Massachusetts is facing a lawsuit over its efforts to encourage children to “experiment with alternate gender identities” at school and hide that information from their parents. In a complaint filed last week in a U.S. district court, two families alleged that administrators and several employees at Ludlow Public Schools have…
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