Hundreds of parents gathered at the Orange County Department of Education (OCDE) April 7 over concerns COVID-19 vaccines would become mandatory for students without parental consent. During a regularly scheduled OCDE board meeting, more than 100 people spoke out against a widely-circulating—and unverified—claim that Orange County’s top doctor would force public school students to be…
Reports of Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccine for Students Draw Ire of Orange County Parents
April 8, 2021
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High School Coach Fired After Rejecting Mandate That Track Runners Wear Masks
A New Hampshire high school track and field coach said he was fired for refusing to force his team to wear masks during races. Bradley Keyes, who has been coaching at Pembroke Academy for four years, wrote on his blog that the school informed him that athletes would be required to wear masks when they…
Santa Ana Partnership Offers Hope for Homeless Students
April 8, 2021
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Santa Ana Unified School District is partnering with a non-profit organization to provide services to children and teens experiencing homelessness during the current school year. Project Hope Alliance (PHA) received a $150,000 community development grant from the City of Santa Ana that will go toward helping 50 students experiencing homelessness at Martin R. Heninger School. Jennifer Friend, chief executive of the non-profit, said…
Peter Boghossian on Woke Education: ‘No Other Alternative Than to Defund the System’
The education system promoting “woke” ideology should no longer receive any government funding, said philosopher and pedagogist Peter Boghossian on The Epoch Times’ “American Thought Leaders.” A professor at Portland State University, Boghossian is best known for co-authoring a series of satirical papers and publishing them in peer-reviewed academic journals to reveal how likely fake…
GOP States Expand School Choice as Lockdowns Boost Alternatives
Several Republican-led states are advancing school choice programs amidst a growth of alternative learning arrangements spurred by pandemic-related lockdowns. The new measures sometimes build on already established programs, expanding access to vouchers and scholarships, allowing more parents to pull their children from public schools and have the programs help pay for a private school, homeschooling,…
Biden Meets School Reopening Goal, Can’t Take Credit, Data Indicates
While President Joe Biden has met his school reopening goal almost a month ahead of schedule, data indicates his policies did nothing to accelerate a reopening trend already underway when he took office. An effort to reopen the majority of schools within his first 100 days was among Biden’s core promises prior to taking office….
Biden Can’t Take Credit for Meeting School Reopening Goal, Data Show
While President Joe Biden has met his school reopening goal almost a month ahead of schedule, data indicates his policies did nothing to accelerate a reopening trend that was already underway when he took office. An effort to reopen the majority of schools within his first 100 days was among Biden’s core promises prior to…
The End of Education
The school should always have as its aim that the young man leave it as a harmonious personality, not as a specialist. This in my opinion is true in a certain sense even for technical schools … The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition…
Orange County Charter Schools Offer Students, Parents Choice
ORANGE, Calif.—When organizers of the Orange County Classical Academy (OCCA) set out to open the doors of their own charter school in August 2020 in the city of Orange, they had no idea they’d be doing it in the middle of a pandemic. They simply wanted to offer children what they felt was a better…
How to Tell the Difference Between Real Education and Propaganda
The other day, I ran across a passage from “That Hideous Strength” that seems oddly applicable to our time. A dystopian novel written by C. S. Lewis at the close of World War II, “That Hideous Strength” finds one of its main characters, Mark Studdock, working for N.I.C.E., an organization that pulls the strings in…
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