Tag: Education & Family News

Utah Governor Vetoes Ban on Transgender Children in Girls’ Sports in Schools

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox on March 22 vetoed a bill that would ban transgender students from participating in girls’ sports in public schools, coming a day after Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb vetoed a similar bill in his state. In response, Utah Senate President Stuart Adams and House Speaker Brad Wilson said they have the two-thirds majority…


New Florida Law Makes Financial Literacy Class a Requirement for High School Graduation

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday signed into law a bill that makes it a graduation requirement for high school students to complete a course on financial literacy. Under Senate Bill 1054 (pdf), which gained unanimous approval in Florida’s state Legislature, all public school students entering 9th grade in the 2023-2024 school year and thereafter…


Don’t Send Son Back to Italy for Custody Hearing, American Mother Urges Supreme Court

An appeals court misinterpreted an international child abduction treaty in a custody dispute by ordering that a child who is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Italy, and had been living in Italy, should be returned to that country for the courts there to decide custody, the Supreme Court heard March 23. The case…


Texas Appeals Court Blocks State From Investigating Families With Transgender Children for Child Abuse

A Texas appeals court reinstated an order that will block the state from investigating parents for child abuse if they facilitate gender-affirming procedures for their transgender children. The Texas Third Court of Appeals on March 21 granted an emergency motion to reinstate the temporary injunction, which it said is “necessary to maintain the status quo and…


California Bill to Let Parents Sue Social Media Giants for Products ‘Addictive’ to Kids

A new bill introduced to California State Assembly would allow parents in the state to sue social media companies that “knew or should have known” that their products are addictive to children. The proposed legislation, formally titled Social Media Platform Duty to Children Act, was sponsored by Democrat Buffy Wicks and Republican Jordan Cunningham. It…


California Bill Would Let Parents Sue Social Media Giants for Products ‘Addictive’ to Kids

A proposal introduced in the California State Assembly would allow parents in the state to sue social media companies that “knew or should have known” that their products are addictive to children. The legislation, formally titled Social Media Platform Duty to Children Act, states that companies “intentionally invent, design, and deploy” features that are intended…


How Schools’ COVID-Aid Joy Ride Could Send New Hires Off a Fiscal Cliff—Again

As school districts across the country grapple with declining enrollments induced by the pandemic, many are engaged in spending sprees like those of the past leading to widespread layoffs and budget cuts when federal money ran out. Bolstered by $190 billion in pandemic relief funding from Washington, the nation’s public schools are hiring new teachers…


Alabama House Passes Bill Banning Teaching ‘Divisive Concepts’ in Schools

The Alabama House of Representatives has passed a bill aimed at banning the teaching of any “divisive concept” to school students. The bill, HB 312, was passed mostly along party lines 65–32, and now moves to the Alabama Senate. HB 312 defines a “divisive concept” as including any ideology that teaches (a) a race, religion,…


Children Have Been ‘Sacrificed On the Altar of Safety’: Dennis Prager

Dennis Prager believes radical secularism is pervasive in the United States and the world and that leftism has taken over many peoples’ inherent search for meaning, allowing them to be manipulated by a politically motivated group of elites. Prager, host of The Dennis Prager Show and co-founder of PragerU, said in a March 16 interview…


New York School Insists on Inviting Convicted Murderer for ‘Intellectual’ Talk on ‘Black Resistance’

A public university in New York has come under fire for its plan to host an “intellectual conversation” with Jalil Muntaqim, a former Black Panther who spent nearly 50 years behind the bars for ambushing and killing two police officers in 1971. Muntaqim, who remained in prison until October 2020, is invited to speak at…