Tag: Education & Family News

California prof accused of racism over archeology book sues for being canceled

An anthropology professor is suing San Jose State University in federal court in California, claiming the school smeared her as a racist and colonialist, and punished her because she has been critical of a federal antiquities law. The legal complaint (pdf) in the case, Weiss v. Perez, court file 5:22-cv-641, was filed Jan. 31 with…


As Virginia Students Get Slapped With Suspensions For Not Wearing Masks, Parents Direct Frustration at Governor

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va.—As more and more students across Virginia receive suspensions for following a state executive order by not wearing a mask in school, parents and students have expressed disappointment at the new governor’s handling of the matter, saying that they feel he doesn’t have their back. On his first day in office, Gov. Glenn…


Virginia Governor, AG, School Chief Side With Loudoun County Parents in School Mask Mandate Lawsuit

Virginia’s governor, attorney general, and the superintendent of public instruction have asked to join a lawsuit on behalf of parents fighting to opt their children out of mask mandates at school. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday by three families against Loudoun County Public Schools, one of Virginia’s public school districts that insist on requiring students…


Schools Embrace BLM ‘Week of Action,’ Teach Students to ‘Disrupt Western Nuclear Family Dynamics’

Schools across the nation are using this week to indoctrinate students with progressive activism using a curriculum promoted by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, a parent group warns. During the “Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action,” which kicked off Monday, public school districts from Boston to Seattle will teach lessons that corresponded…


Graduation Rates Fell Across US Due to Remote Learning, Studies Show

The pandemic is driving academic proficiency and graduation rates down in U.S. schools. That’s the consensus of several studies assessing the impact of a string of COVID-19 related viruses on the education of America’s school children over the past two years. Michigan State University’s Education Policy Innovation Collaboration last month released a 350-page study, which…


Terry Schilling on CRT Indoctrination in American Schools: A Divided, Weak Future for the Country

America faces a future marked by division and weakness if its youth continues to be indoctrinated with anti-American ideologies like critical race theory (CRT) warned Terry Schilling, president of conservative advocacy group American Principles Project. An outgrowth of Marxism, CRT interprets society through a Marxist dichotomy between “oppressor” and “oppressed,” but replaces the class categories…


10-Year-Old Virginia Student Receives 4 Suspensions in a Week for Refusing to Wear Mask, Vows to Press On

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va.—Despite receiving four suspensions in five school days, Bronagh McAllister, a 10-year-old in Virginia’s largest school district, has persisted in going maskless to her school. The fourth grader’s principal, Katie Cachine, who heads Waynewood Elementary School in Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS), gave Bronagh three one-day suspensions from Jan. 26 to Jan. 28,…


Virginia Superintendent Orders Students to Wear Masks in Violation of Governor’s Executive Order

Despite an executive order, signed into law by the governor, a Virginia public schools superintendent has ordered children to wear masks and principals to suspend any children who refuse to comply. The Public Message On Jan. 21, Virginia’s Fairfax County Public Schools superintendent posted two messages. The public message informed parents and students that the “regulation…


Virginia Rep. Bob Good: Critical Race Theory Violates Civil Rights

Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) says his colleagues have a bill that would outlaw the teaching of the controversial critical race theory (CRT) in their state. “We have a bill, as you know, that we’ve introduced that says that the teaching of critical race theory, or the kind of teachings that would separate kids or discriminate…


Professor Sues After Being Canceled for Tweets About Reparations, Racial Bias Training

A mathematics professor at St. Joseph’s University is suing the school after it canceled him for an anonymous tweet mocking a controversial policy proposal that would have the government pay monetary reparations to the descendants of slaves. Professor Gregory V. Manco, who was subsequently demoted, claims that he was accosted by an online mob for…