Schools in the United States should continue to use masks for the 2020–2021 academic year as all students will not be fully vaccinated, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Saturday. The CDC in its latest guidance said all kindergarten through grade 12 schools “should implement and layer prevention strategies and…
Teachers Union Presidents Support Full Return to In-person Schooling in Fall
The president of one of the largest teachers unions in the country announced Thursday that the union wants all schools to reopen for in-person schooling in the fall. “The United States will not be fully back, until we are fully back in school. And my union is all in,” Randi Weingarten, head of the American…
Protestors Speak Out Against School District’s Social Justice Standards
May 12, 2021
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LOS ALAMITOS—About 150 protestors gathered outside the Los Alamitos Unified School District May 11 as the board unanimously voted to implement social justice standards in classrooms. Opponents said they were concerned the lessons would teach critical race theory (CRT), an ideology that divides society into oppressors and the oppressed based on characteristics such as race, sex,…
Protesters Speak Out Against School District’s ‘Social Justice Standards’
May 12, 2021
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LOS ALAMITOS, Calif.—About 150 protesters gathered outside the Los Alamitos Unified School District on May 11 as the board unanimously voted to implement new social justice standards in classrooms. Opponents said they were concerned the lessons would teach critical race theory (CRT), an ideology that divides society into oppressors and the oppressed based on characteristics such…
Cypress Public School Named Best in State
An Orange County school was named the best in California in a nationwide survey of nearly 18,000 public high schools. Oxford Academy in Cypress placed eleventh nationally in U.S. News’ ranking of 17,857 high schools in 50 states. The Anaheim Union High School District educational institute reported a 100 percent advanced placement rate and 100…
Oklahoma Governor Signs Bill Banning Critical Race Theory in Public Schools
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill on May 7 banning the teaching of critical race theory in the state’s public and charter schools. Critical race theory is a quasi-Marxist ideology that holds that racism is ingrained in the United States. Among other concepts, it labels people with white skin, including children, as oppressors who…
Dynamite Book Club Shares the Gift of Reading
May 5, 2021
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When 16-year-old Alex Law’s friend Ellie told her how isolating it was to be a patient at Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) during the pandemic shutdown, Law and three of her friends decided to do something to help. “Ellie told me about the children she meets when she has to go to CHOC sometimes,…
The Culture War Comes to Your School
April 24, 2021
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Commentary You may have noticed the ongoing fight between Alberta’s United Conservative Party and the education establishment—the teachers’ union and university faculties of education—over the government’s new humanities curriculum. And you may have noticed that the “expert” commentary in the mainstream media is uniformly damning the government. “They want to set back our educational system…
Michigan Governor Asks High Schools To Close For 2 Weeks Amid High COVID-19 Transmission Rates
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Friday announced at a press conference that she has urged high schools in the state to voluntarily close for in-person instruction for two weeks after spring break, amid soaring COVID-19 transmission rates in the state. She also urged for youth sports to pause and for residents to avoid indoor dining…
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Most of Orange County’s School Districts Are in Debt
Commentary Of the 27 school districts in Orange County, just one has restricted net assets. The remaining districts have unrestricted net assets, meaning their liabilities exceed their assets. To help understand the solvency of school districts, I provided a chart. It provides the unrestricted net position from the June 30, 2019 audited financial statements from…