Tag: education

Colorado High School Students Stage Walkout to Protest School Mask Requirement

High school students in Douglas County, Colorado, staged protests Wednesday calling for the end of a classroom mask mandate, ABC 7 Denver reported. Students from ThunderRidge High School walked out of class around 9:30 a.m. in protest of the classroom mask requirement, ABC 7 reported. On Monday, the Tri-County Health Department board voted in favor…


20 States Sue Education Department Over Transgender Restroom, Pronoun Guidance

Attorneys general from 20 mostly Republican-run states are suing the U.S. Department of Education (DOE), seeking to stop the enforcement of what they say is an “erroneous interpretation” of Title IX, the federal law that bans sex-based discrimination in schools. The states, led by Tennessee, asked the court to block a guidance (pdf) issued this…


California School Board Faces Backlash Over ‘Far-Left’ Teacher

A school board in Northern California faced intense backlash from parents this week after a high school teacher apparently bragged on camera that he wanted to turn his students into revolutionaries, had a poster of Chinese communist tyrant and mass murderer Mao Zedong on his wall, and had an Antifa flag. The Natomas Unified School…


South Carolina Supreme Court Upholds State Legislation Prohibiting Mask Mandates in K-12 Schools

The Supreme Court of South Carolina ruled unanimously on Thursday in favor of legislation prohibiting local school districts from using state money to enforce mask mandates. “Specifically, the ordinances’ enforcement provisions unequivocally place the responsibility to enforce the mask mandate on school personnel, forcing school employees to choose between violating either state or local law,”…


A School Movement Targeting Minorities That Works. But Progressives Don’t Like It.

Michael Landsbaum hit bottom after his father lost his job and couldn’t pay rent, leaving the teenager homeless in Dallas. He slept on friends’ couches for months until he was rescued by an unlikely source: his high school. But Pathways in Technology Early College High School did much more than provide him with a place…


10-Year-Old Urges Citizens to ‘Be Like Power Rangers and Fight Back!’ After Florida School Board Imposes Mask Mandate

On Aug. 31, the Hernando County School Board convened an emergency meeting and voted by a measure of three to two to impose a mask mandate for students in the Hernando County School System. This makes Hernando County the 11th Florida school board to impose mask mandates on children. In response, a 10-year-old Hernando County…


College Graduate Starting Salaries at All-Time High Despite Pandemic: Report

College graduate starting salaries are at an all-time high despite the global pandemic, according to a recent report from the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). Overall, the average starting salary for the college class of 2020 was $55,260, 2 percent higher than the starting salary of $53,889 for the class of 2019, according to…


School District to Fire ‘Far-Left’ Teacher Flying Antifa Flag in Classroom for Violating Political Action Guidelines

A school district in California has placed one of its teachers on paid leave following allegations made by journalism nonprofit Project Veritas that the teacher was involved in illegal political activity in the classroom. In a statement on Wednesday, the Natomas Unified School District said the video revealed a teacher’s “educational approach that is disturbing and undermines the…


Virginia Tech Disenrolls 134 Unvaccinated Students

Virginia Tech has disenrolled more than 100 students for not meeting the COVID-19 vaccine requirement before the start of the fall semester, the university said Tuesday. Some 134 students are no longer enrolled because they did not submit proof that they are vaccinated against the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus or get approved for medical…


Indiana’s Last Confucius Institute to Close in 2022 Amid State Inquiry Over CCP Influence

The last remaining Confucius Institute (CI) in Indiana, which has recently been accused by the state government of operating as a propaganda arm of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is going to close next spring. Valparaiso University, a private Lutheran institution in Northwest Indiana, on Tuesday, announced it will shut down the CI on its…