Some Laguna Beach high schools will remain closed until Orange County enters a less restrictive tier of the pandemic, and the local school board says it’s taking extra steps to help students struggling with remote learning. “Under the substantially stressful conditions of the pandemic, school-based mental health staff has used multiple ways to support students,…
Laguna Beach High Schools Will Remain Closed Until Virus Metrics Improve
February 3, 2021
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If We ‘Believe Science’ Then It’s Time to Reopen Our Schools
Commentary For almost a year now, families across America have been forced to struggle with the task of providing in-home education for their children, as teachers unions have aggressively lobbied for school closures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. One angry parent recently made headlines, after screaming at Virginia’s Loudoun County School Board for continuing…
Florida Bill to End $45 Million College Tuition Subsidy for Illegal Immigrants
A new bill introduced in the Florida legislature on Thursday would repeal a 2014 law that grants subsidized in-state tuition rates for illegal immigrants at the state’s public colleges and universities. Florida currently waives in-state tuition for college students who came to the United States illegally. To be eligible for the waiver, such students must…
Let Kids Make Mistakes (and Learn From Them)
Dear Dave, We just started teaching our seven-year-old about money. He’s very eager to learn, and he seems to be grasping the basic ideas quickly. He’s young, though, and of course he makes mistakes from time to time. Should we step in and fix things when a mistake he made means he can’t do something…
New Jersey Waives High School Graduation Tests, Teacher Evaluations Amid Pandemic
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy announced on Monday that high school seniors across the state don’t have to pass the usual exit tests in order to graduate this year, and teachers will not be judged based on their students’ performance. He cited the ongoing CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic as the reason. Murphy said at…
Local Leaders Hope Proposed California Budget Will Help Businesses, Schools
January 11, 2021
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Orange County leaders say they’re optimstic the recently-released draft budget will benefit local businesses and public schools. “We think that this budget that the governor presented has a number of good things in there that are steps in the right direction of giving the mainstream mom-and-pop [shops] more hope and support that they desperately need,”…
5 Ways to Redeem the School Year
So, 2020 was rough. This school year, so far, hasn’t been stellar for many. With a fresh, new year, however, let’s take on a fresh, new outlook. There are a number of ways parents can redeem the school year before it’s done. It just takes a basic shift in mindset and a little bit of…
Militant Ignorance Reshapes Our Schools and Culture
Meet Heather Levine, a teacher at Lawrence High School in Massachusetts. According to an article by Meghan Cox Gurdon in The Wall Street Journal, Ms. Levine is in the pedagogical vanguard, so woke that she recently bragged to a colleague: “Very proud to say we got the Odyssey removed from the curriculum this year!” That…
Leigh Bortins on Homeschooling Amid Pandemic: Parents Have More Resources Than They Realize
Parents who find it difficult to homeschool their children while working to provide for the family should try to broaden their perspective on education, said Leigh Bortins, a prominent member of the homeschooling community. Bortins, the founder of North Carolina-based education company Classical Conversations, said that the CCP virus pandemic is prompting parents to ask…
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The Nation Speaks (Jan. 30): Critical Race Theory: Lawsuits & Cancelling Lincoln; Biden’s Immigration Woes
In this episode of The Nation Speaks, we take a look at a Catholic school lawsuit; the cancellation of Abraham Lincoln; and what all this has in common with China. And finally, what can we expect from the Biden administration on immigration, crime, and justice.