Tag: Education & Family News

Tennessee Lawmakers Want to Give Teachers More Money for Supplies

Tennessee lawmakers are looking to give teachers a boost to pay for school supplies instead of using money out of their own pockets. Legislation introduced for the current session of the Tennessee General Assembly would provide teachers with $500 per year to pay for instructional supplies (pdf). Under the current law, school districts are required…


Lockdown-Era Learning Loss Could Cost Students Thousands in Future Earnings

Education disruptions that occurred during the lockdowns and school closures in the first waves of the COVID-19 pandemic could cost students tens of thousands of dollars in future income and remove trillions from state economies, according to a report from the Hoover Institution. The January report by Eric Hanushek, a senior fellow at the institution…


Florida Mom Warns About Transgender Activism in Schools: ‘A Pathway to Being a Patient for Life’

Transgender activism, now prevalent in schools and medicine, is putting struggling children who could otherwise be helped with ethical, evidence-based treatment on a pathway of “being a patient for life,” warned January Littlejohn, a mental therapist turned parental rights advocate. In 2021, Littlejohn made national headlines when she sued her daughter’s Florida school district after…


PREMIERING NOW: How School Officials Secretly Transitioned My Daughter: January Littlejohn on the Gender Contagion Gripping Our Teens

I sit down with January Littlejohn, a parental rights advocate and mental health professional. In 2021, she filed a lawsuit against her daughter’s Florida school district after school officials met with her 13-year-old daughter—without Littlejohn’s consent—to discuss a six-page “gender support” plan. “It wasn’t just changing names and pronouns. They asked her which restroom she…


How School Officials Secretly Transitioned My Daughter: January Littlejohn on the Gender Contagion Gripping Our Teens

I sit down with January Littlejohn, a parental rights advocate and mental health professional. In 2021, she filed a lawsuit against her daughter’s Florida school district after school officials met with her 13-year-old daughter—without Littlejohn’s consent—to discuss a six-page “gender support” plan. “It wasn’t just changing names and pronouns. They asked her which restroom she…


PREMIERING 7:30PM ET: How School Officials Secretly Transitioned My Daughter: January Littlejohn on the Gender Contagion Gripping Our Teens

I sit down with January Littlejohn, a parental rights advocate and mental health professional. In 2021, she filed a lawsuit against her daughter’s Florida school district after school officials met with her 13-year-old daughter—without Littlejohn’s consent—to discuss a six-page “gender support” plan. “It wasn’t just changing names and pronouns. They asked her which restroom she…


With Schools Ditching Merit for Diversity, Families of High Achievers Head for the Door

Alex Shilkrut has deep roots in Manhattan, where he has lived for 16 years, works as a physician, and sends his daughter to a public elementary school for gifted students in coveted District 2. It’s a good life. But Shilkrut regretfully says he may leave the city, as well as a job he likes in…


New Law Requires New Jersey Schools to Teach K–12 Media Literacy

With the signing of a bill this week by Democrat Gov. Phil Murphy, New Jersey has become the first state requiring schools to teach media literacy to all K–12 students in an effort to teach them how to recognize misinformation. The bill adds “information literacy” to New Jersey Student Learning Standards as a new content…


PREMIERING 1/5 at 7:30PM ET: How School Officials Secretly Transitioned My Daughter: January Littlejohn on the Gender Contagion Gripping Our Teens

I sit down with January Littlejohn, a parental rights advocate and mental health professional. In 2021, she filed a lawsuit against her daughter’s Florida school district after school officials met with her 13-year-old daughter—without Littlejohn’s consent—to discuss a six-page “gender support” plan. “It wasn’t just changing names and pronouns. They asked her which restroom she…


Abortion Complications Double Over 5 Years in Pennsylvania

Abortions in Pennsylvania increased 9 percent in the six years between 2016 and 2021, but medical complications from abortions have almost doubled (up 48 percent) in that time. Increased medical complications correlate with a 62 percent increase in Pennsylvania’s chemical abortions—the abortion pill—over that same time. While complications rise from these self-administered chemical abortions, the…