Tag: Education & Family News

11-Year-Old Reads Sexually Explicit Book to Maine School Board Meeting

Onlookers gasped as 11-year-old Knox Zajac read a sexually explicit passage from a book in Windham Middle School’s (WMS) library to the Windham School Board in Maine. Knox Zajac read the scene in a noticeably prepubescent voice. The book Knox Zajac read, “Nick and Charlie,” by Alice Oseman describes a gay sex scene between two…


West Virginia Passes Law Restricting ‘Substantial’ Government Intervention in Religious Freedoms

Jim Justice, the Republican Governor of West Virginia, has signed into law a bill seeking to protect religious freedoms from unnecessary government interference. The “Equal Protection for Religion Act” was passed in the Republican-led Senate by a vote of 31-3 last week and signed into law by Justice on Thursday. The bill (pdf) prohibits the…


Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs Vetoes Bill Banning Critical Race Theory in K-12 Public Schools

Democratic Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs vetoed a bill this week that would have prohibited schools from teaching the concept of judging an individual on the basis of their race or ethnicity, or that certain races or ethnicities are inherently racist or oppressive. Last month, lawmakers in the Arizona legislature passed state Senate Bill SB1305, which…


Virginia AG Demands Fairfax County Middle School Stop Racial Discrimination Against Students

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va.—Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares sent a letter Thursday to a Fairfax County middle school demanding the school stop discriminating against potential 8th-grade applicants for its college preparation program. On March 1, Cooper Middle School sent an email inviting parents of 8th graders to apply for the public school system’s College Partnership Program…


Growing Number of Americans Are Skipping College: Report

A growing number of Americans are opting to skip college in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report. Nationwide, transfer enrollment from two-year colleges to four-year institutions, or undergraduate college enrollment, dropped nearly 8 percent in the fall of 2022 compared to 2020, according to data from the educational nonprofit, National Student Clearinghouse (NSC). Those declines…


Supreme Court Is Asked to Take First Transgender Sports Case

The state of West Virginia and a former collegiate soccer player are asking the Supreme Court to back a state law that bans male student-athletes who present as female from playing on girls’ school sports teams. The legal action comes as West Virginia and other states are taking action to make sure women and girls…


Overmedicated: How the US Foster Care System Is Failing Our Children

On Jan. 17 a federal class action lawsuit was filed against the state of Maryland Department of Human Services (DHS) over inadequate prescription oversight of psychotropic drugs for children in the foster care system—putting them in danger of overdoses and serious side effects. According to the lawsuit, recent DHS data shows that at least 72.1 percent of children in…


Christian Student Teachers at Center of Lawsuit Against Arizona School District

An Arizona school board is facing a lawsuit after it severed a long-standing partnership with a Christian university that supplied student teachers over their religious beliefs. Conservative group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed the lawsuit against Washington Elementary School District on Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. For the past…


Race Versus Class: The Same Ideology That Erased Freedom in China Is Taking Over America

This episode features a CPAC interview with Xi Van Fleet, a woman who escaped Maoist China and endured the Cultural Revolution. Xi came to America to pursue the American dream, and now is speaking out against the cultural Marxism she sees taking over America and erasing our freedoms. Xi has confronted schools pushing critical race…


Subtle Threats to US Combat Readiness Include Healthcare Access on Overseas Bases

An army may march on its stomach but deployed soldiers will stay focused in the field when they know their families are being cared for at home. When it comes to the front-line warfighters stationed on forward-deployed United States military bases and ships, concerns about financial and family health issues can be a subtle, but…