Tag: Education & Family News

NCAA Updates Definition of ‘Fully Vaccinated’ to Include Natural Immunity

The National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA’s) COVID-19 Medical Advisory Group on Jan. 7 released new guidance for winter sports and updated its definition of “fully vaccinated” to account for vaccinations, boosters, and other natural immunity factors. “For purposes of the winter guidelines, the NCAA COVID-19 Medical Advisory Group has developed a definition of ‘fully vaccinated’ that considers both…


Children’s Behavior at Home Worsened During Remote Learning: Research

Parents believe that their children are exhibiting worse behavior during remote learning at home than when they attend school in person, a new study has revealed. Researchers from Harvard University led the study, which involved four online surveys among 405 parents of children in Massachusetts from Jan. 4 to May 23, 2021—a period marked by…


Colleges in LA County Extend Remote Instruction Amid Omicron Surges

With the recent rise in COVID-19 cases in Los Angeles County, colleges and universities have started their school year online. Schools are expecting a significant number of students testing positive for COVID-19 and require isolation. To give students more time to get tested or recover from COVID-19, many schools have either postponed the date for…


North Carolina Charter School Resumes In-person Learning After COVID Outbreak Among the Vaccinated

A school that fired its unvaccinated staff returned to in-person classes after shutting down last week due to a COVID outbreak among its 100 percent vaccinated staff. For many of the staff whose contracts were terminated in November 2021 because of not getting vaccinated, the incident demonstrates the impracticality of the mandates. Socrates Academy, a…


Minnesota School Boards Terminate NBSA Membership After ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Letter

The Minnesota School Board Association (MSBA) has terminated its membership with the National School Boards Association (NBSA), joining a growing number of states to do so over a highly controversial Biden administration letter, which likened concerned parents to domestic terrorists. “The MSBA Board of Directors acted last week to terminate our membership with NSBA,” a…


Minnesota School Boards Terminate NSBA Membership After ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Letter

The Minnesota School Board Association (MSBA) has terminated its membership with the National School Boards Association (NSBA), joining a growing number of states to do so over a highly controversial Biden administration letter, which likened concerned parents to domestic terrorists. “The MSBA Board of Directors acted last week to terminate our membership with NSBA,” a…


‘My Duty as a Parent’: Inside the Fight to Remove Sexualized Content From School Libraries

Something on television caught the attention of Stacy Langton, a mother of six living in northern Virginia, when she was cooking dinner for her family in mid-September 2021. “Write a sex scene you wouldn’t show your mom; write an X-rated Disney scenario,” the TV news segment showed prompts given to students of a writing class…


Biden’s Education Secretary Allegedly Requested ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Letter From School Boards Group

Newly surfaced emails suggest that the U.S. Department of Education might have played a more important role than previously thought in the creation of a highly controversial letter, which likened concerned parents to domestic terrorists. In a letter (pdf) sent to President Joe Biden on Sept. 29, 2021, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) characterized…


Mask Mandate to Remain in Place in New Jersey Schools, Governor Says

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said the statewide mask mandate for schools will continue “for the foreseeable future,” even after his last remaining public health emergency powers expire. Under an agreement reached last summer between Murphy and state lawmakers, all of Murphy’s administrative orders, directives, and waivers that relied on the existence of the public…


Illinois Teacher Takes Risks to Expose CRT at Public Schools

Frank McCormick, a high school history teacher in a Democratic-leaning Chicago suburb, has voiced his views about Critical Race Theory (CRT) at his school district for six months. The mental toll has worn him down. He realized that the loneliness, the personal attacks from all directions, and the constant fear of losing his job are…