Tag: education

Innovative Foster-Care High School Saved by California Judge’s Order

A California Superior Court judge has rescued an innovative residential high school for foster children from state-ordered closure, and the school is again ready to accept new students. Judge Robert Dahlquist of the Superior Court of California (County of San Diego) issued a preliminary injunction forbidding officials from terminating the group-home license for San Pasqual…


Virginia Gov.-Elect Youngkin Picks Next Education Secretary

Virginia Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin on Monday announced his first Cabinet pick, naming Aimee Rogstad Guidera as secretary of education. The appointment continues his promised commitment to reform education, including ending mask mandates for children at schools, removing sexually explicit books from school libraries, and removing critical race theory from school curricula. Home to some of…


Hillsdale College’s Larry Arnn on Lockdowns, Education, and the Tyranny of Experts

The government’s pandemic response, while telling people to “follow the science” of its experts, has adopted a model of tyranny by the experts who have twisted the true spirit of science, according to Dr. Larry Arnn, president of Hillsdale College. “It’s just foolish to say, ‘That scientist can rule,’” Arnn said in an interview on…


California Teacher Unions Saw Thousands of Public School Employees Opt Out in 2021: Report

The Freedom Foundation, a national nonprofit based in Orange, California, helped approximately 2,000 California teachers and school employees opt out of six major state unions this year—a record high, according to the organization, which formed in 1991. “There is definitely a movement happening, and it’s very apparent that [teachers and school staff] are fed up,”…


California Teachers Unions Saw Thousands of Public School Employees Opt Out in 2021: Report

The Freedom Foundation has helped approximately 2,000 California teachers and school employees opt out of six major state unions this year—a record high, according to the Orange, California-based national nonprofit. “There is definitely a movement happening, and it’s very apparent that [teachers and school staff] are fed up,” Rachel Weigel, California outreach director for the…


Differences Between a Secular and a Religious—Jewish or Christian—Upbringing

Commentary Anyone who thinks about the current civil war in America comes to realize that it is, in large measure, a war between the religious and the anti-religious. The Left has contempt for evangelical Protestants, traditional Catholics, and Orthodox Jews for good reason: They represent everything the Left loathes; and while there are, of course,…


California Schools Phase out ‘D’ and ‘F’ Grades for High School Students

As high school students transition out of distance learning imposed by pandemic restrictions, several California districts are dropping the use of “D” and “F” grades in an attempt to reengage students in school and boost entry into the state’s public colleges. Los Angeles Unified, Oakland Unified, Sacramento City Unified, and San Diego Unified are among…


Pennsylvania Supreme Court Ends School Mask Mandate

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court Friday affirmed a Commonwealth Court decision that said Acting Health Secretary Alison Beam did not have the authority to issue a mask mandate for everyone indoors at schools and childcare centers. It means, effective immediately, school mask mandates are no longer mandatory, although many schools have a local rule that students…


Brainwashing America’s Children: The Dangers of CRT

Commentary As tensions between China and the United States reach an all-time high, it’s important to ask the following questions: What kind of children are being created in both countries? Which of the two groups of students will be the best equipped to combat the challenges of tomorrow? Education in China is, shall we say,…


Maine Student Aid Program Discriminates on the Basis of Religion, Supreme Court Hears

A Maine law that bans families from a student aid program if they choose to send their children to religious schools is flatly unconstitutional and should be struck down, a seemingly sympathetic Supreme Court heard this morning. The program at issue provides tuition assistance for students who don’t have a local public school so they…