Tag: education

National School Boards Association Apologizes Over Letter Comparing Parents to Domestic Terrorists

The National School Boards Association (NSBA) has apologized to its members on Friday for a letter that was previously sent to the Biden administration in which the school board group compared parents accused of trying to intimidate educators to domestic terrorists. In a memo issued to NSBA members, the board said that “on behalf of…


Capistrano Unified Asks Newsom to Rescind Student Vaccine Mandate

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif.—The Capistrano Unified School District Board of Trustees voted 4-2 Oct. 20 to send a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom asking him to rescind the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for K-12 students. The motion, authored by Trustees Gila Jones and Martha McNicholas, drew large crowds of parents to the meeting, where they spoke…


Schools Across US Convert Old Buses to Electric

For several years, the Miami-Dade County Public schools had toyed with replacing some of its 1,000 diesel buses with cleaner electric vehicles. But school leaders said the change would be too costly. Then 12-year-old student Holly Thorpe showed up at a school board meeting to tout the benefits of going electric and returned to encourage…


Manufacturing a Campus Rape Crisis

Commentary U.S. President Joe Biden is working hard to secure his legacy as the founder of America’s campus kangaroo courts, firmly tilted towards believe-women justice. Back in 2011, he was the prime mover in the Obama administration’s use of Title IX anti-discrimination rules to force colleges to set up tribunals to adjudicate sexual misconduct. The…


Latest Attempt to End Pennsylvania’s School Mask Mandate Fails

The latest Republican-led bid to end mandatory masking of Pennsylvania school children failed Thursday in Harrisburg in a 4–7 vote by the little-known Joint Committee on Documents. In August, Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, asked the General Assembly to approve a mandate requiring all schools and childcare centers to make children wear masks to prevent…


Vaccinated Children Likely Still Have to Wear Masks in School, Surgeon General Says

Indoor mask mandates at schools will likely to stay in place even after young children receive COVID-19 vaccines in the coming weeks, said U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy. In an Oct. 21 interview on CNN’s “New Day,” Murthy was asked how much the vaccination of children ages 5-11 would affect the need of having them…


Condoleezza Rice Denounces Critical Race Theory Curriculums Being Taught in Schools

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that a curriculum that incorporates critical race theory’s (CRT) ideas should not be taught to schoolchildren, because it sends the wrong message to young children—that one race is less than the other. “But if I could take a moment to talk about the whole issue of critical race…


Senate Narrowly Confirms Catherine Lhamon to Lead Education Department’s Civil Rights Arm

Catherine Lhamon will return to lead the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights after the Senate narrowly confirmed her appointment in a party-line vote, with Vice President Kamala Harris breaking the 50-50 tie. The Wednesday vote came more than five months after Lhamon was tapped by President Joe Biden as the nominee for…


Teachers’ Union Tells Members to Treat Complaining Parents as Enemies: Report

Parents opposed to critical race theory-based indoctrination in public schools should be treated as adversaries, teachers in Washington State have been told by their labor union. Critical race theory (CRT) holds, among other things, that white people are inherently racist and calls for engaging in racial discrimination in the name of combating it. Leftists claim…


CDC Issued Last-Minute Changes to School Reopening Guidance After Being Asked by Teachers Unions, Emails Show

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued last-minute changes to its school-reopening guidance after two prominent teachers unions asked the agency to do so, according to newly obtained emails by watchdog group Americans for Public Trust. The emails, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by the watchdog and published online show a string of communications between…