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  • School Board Recall Opponents Rally in Orange, California

    03/04/2024 12:56:04 PM PST · by Fiji Hill · 1 replies
    Youtube ^ | March 4, 2024 | Durium
    Supporters of Rick Ledesma and Madison Miner, members of the Orange Unified School District's Board of Trustees, who are targets of a recall campaign by a coalition of politicians and public employees' unions, rallied in Orange, California during the first weekend in March, 2024. Ledesma and Miner are conservatives who favor academically rigorous curricula, parent's rights and charter schools and oppose the ideological indoctrination of students. The rallies took place in Orange, on Chapman Avenue on Friday, March 1, and at the traffic circle in the heart of Old Town Orange the next day. On Sunday, March 3, they held...
  • Two more school districts sued for electioneering

    03/03/2024 10:34:33 AM PST · by CFW · 5 replies
    The Center Square ^ | 3/3/24 | Bethany Blankley
    More public-school districts are being sued for allegedly using taxpayer resources to instruct staff to vote against school choice candidates in the Republican primary election regardless if they are Republicans. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Huffman and Aledo independent school districts on Friday alleging they used state resources to influence political races through illegal electioneering. This is after Paxton first sued Denton, Frisco, Denison and Castleberry ISDs within one week “for illegal electioneering by using taxpayer-funded resources” to “stump for specific candidates during an election” and/or “promote certain political candidates and policies” related to school choice. School choice is...
  • American Psychological Association Policy Promotes K-12 Transgenderism

    03/02/2024 5:49:17 AM PST · by artichokegrower · 23 replies
    Breitbart ^ | March 1, 2024 | ALANA MASTRANGELO
    The American Psychological Association (APA) has adopted a policy statement that promotes K-12 transgenderism and denounces child-protection laws.
  • California public schools face federal complaint over 'viciously hostile' antisemitic bullying

    03/01/2024 10:19:37 AM PST · by george76 · 11 replies
    Fox News ^ | March 1, 2024 | Lindsay Kornick
    Berkeley Unified School District teachers and students have promoted anti-Israel and anti-Jewish sentiment on campus.. Multiple California K-12 schools are being accused of promoting "viciously hostile environments" of "severe and persistent" antisemitism in a recent federal civil rights complaint... Brandeis Center .. along with the U.S. Department of Education filed the complaint against the Berkely Unified School District ... The complaint alleged that the district has allowed the ongoing "harassment and discrimination" of Jewish students to skyrocket since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack against Israel. "Over the past four months, BUSD has knowingly allowed its K-12 campuses to become viciously...
  • Federal Court Dismisses Case Against Governor Who Prohibited Mask Mandates In Schools

    02/28/2024 4:30:52 AM PST · by george76 · 4 replies
    Daily Caller News Foundation ^ | February 27, 2024 | John Oyewale
    A federal court dismissed a case Tuesday against Republican Iowa Gov. Kimberly Reynolds’ prohibition of mask mandate in school districts across the state, official documents showed. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit found “persuasive” the argument that “the general risks associated with COVID-19, even though COVID-19 remains an ever-present concern in society, are not enough to show ‘imminent and substantial’ harm,” court papers showed in part. The court also decided that “because Plaintiffs have only alleged the potential risk of severe illness should they contract COVID-19 at school, the risk of harm is too speculative to satisfy...
  • Most people don’t realize how bad the situation is in medical schools, worse than in general higher ed

    02/27/2024 7:39:12 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 28 replies
    Legal Insurrection ^ | 26 Feb, 2024 | William A. Jacobson
    We’ve been sounding the alarm for several years. Ben Shapiro: “DEI Could Get You Killed In the Operating Room”. We have been covering the growing racialization of medical schools for several years. Our CriticalRace.org database of medical schools has received widespread media attention, including this Fox Digital article in July 2023, after we completed documentation at all 156 U.S. based medical schools: The “racialization of medical education” has created a “national emergency” because many of America’s future doctors are being inundated with critical race theory (CRT) and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), according to the founder of CriticalRace.org. CriticalRace.org, which...
  • No Recall! Supporters of pro-parental rights schoolboard trustees rally in Anaheim, California

    02/26/2024 7:23:17 AM PST · by Fiji Hill · 4 replies
    Youtube ^ | February 26, 2024 | Durium
    The culture war has come to the streets of Anaheim, California, where two conservative members of the Orange Unified School District Board of Trustees are fighting an attempt to recall them. Rick Ledesma and Madison Miner are outspoken defenders of parental rights and of keeping parents informed about their children’s health and safety. They support the adoption of rigorous scholarly and academic curricula. They seek to prevent overtly racist and divisive ideology from seeping into the classroom and also to keep sexually explicit materials out of school libraries. And they support charter schools. In doing so, they have ruffled feathers...
  • Maine’s public schools purchased taxpayer-subsidized electric buses but say they are defective

    02/23/2024 9:05:34 AM PST · by george76 · 39 replies
    Just the News ^ | February 23, 2024 | Kevin Killough
    Maine’s Department of Education is reportedly urging school districts to stop using taxpayer-subsidized electric school buses that were purchased within the last year. The districts reported problems with the new buses, which were supplied by Canada-based Lion Electric Co., last fall ... The windshields on the buses would leak whenever it rained, as the glass didn’t appear to be securely in place. concerns about mixing electricity and water from the leaking windshields led them to stop driving some of the buses. The buses, which cost about $345,000 each, were also sold with misaligned or incorrect lettering on the sides, and...
  • Chicago Board of Education votes to remove school resource police officers from CPS schools

    02/22/2024 3:39:48 PM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 25 replies
    ABC News Local ^ | February 22, 2024 | ByJessica D'Onofrio and Leah Hope
    CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago's Board of Education made a decision Thursday on CPS school resource officers. In a unanimous vote, Chicago's Board of Education approved a plan to remove police officers from Chicago Public Schools, starting next school year. Dozens of students who want to see police out of their schools rallied outside CPS headquarters Thursday morning. CPS students from "Cops Out CPS" gathered to call on the Board of Education to remove police from schools and re-invest more than $10 million spent on police in school programs and resources. Many students said the student resource officers are costly, ineffective...
  • State Senate panel passes book banning bill [Georgia]

    02/22/2024 2:06:13 PM PST · by CFW · 12 replies
    Capitol Beat ^ | 2/21/24 | Dave Williams
    ATLANTA – Legislation that would create a state council to set standards for books that could be banned from public school libraries as obscene cleared a Georgia Senate committee late Wednesday. “This bill is about making sure our public school libraries are not places for kids to be exposed to sexually explicit materials,” Sen. Clint Dixon, R-Buford, chairman of the Senate Education and Youth Committee and the bill’s chief sponsor, said before the vote. Senate Bill 394 would create the Georgia Council of Library Materials Standards, whose members would be appointed by the governor, lieutenant governor, speaker of the House,...
  • Unruly high school asks Massachusetts National Guard to restore order

    02/20/2024 2:22:07 PM PST · by matt04 · 53 replies
    Officials have asked Gov. Maura Healey to send in the Massachusetts National Guard to stop violence and address security concerns at a troubled high school in a city south of Boston, some school committee members said Monday. Four of the seven members of the Brockton School Committee backed the National Guard request amid teacher shortages and budget deficits, but city officials weren't unanimous in their support. The governor's office acknowledged the concerns about Brockton High School, where teachers reported fighting and drug use in the hallways, and verbal abuse of staff. “Our administration is committed to ensuring that schools are...
  • New Jersey Monitor story about pornography in school libraries reveals the dishonesty of 'journalists' (VIP)

    02/18/2024 7:17:45 PM PST · by NetAddicted · 3 replies
    Twitchy.com ^ | 2/18/2024 | Grateful Calvin
    <p>Ever since I first learned to read, I have been fascinated with writing. I have always loved how talented writers can whisk us away to a time in history, worlds that exist only in our minds, or even to current events happening far away. It feels like magic.</p>
  • Indiana Launches Portal for Parents to Report ‘Socialist Indoctrination’

    02/18/2024 6:36:05 PM PST · by T Ruth · 21 replies
    PJ Media ^ | February 16, 2024 | Catherine Salgado
    In an effort to empower parents to hold woke educators accountable, the Indiana attorney general has launched new portal for reporting socialist indoctrination in classrooms. The Eyes on Education portal will “empower parents” to report and view inappropriate content being fed to their children in school. Indiana AG Todd Rokita announced the portal in a Feb. 6 press release. He included examples of woke, age-inappropriate nonsense already entered in the portal, including a classroom Pride flag with a Black Lives Matter symbol and a Martinsville High School presentation urging children to “become emotionally independent of parents.” Rokita promised to follow...
  • Rantz: Seattle English students told it’s ‘white supremacy’ to love reading, writing

    02/16/2024 5:10:23 AM PST · by Red Badger · 94 replies
    mynorthwest.com ^ | Feb 14, 2024, 7:08 PM | BY JASON RANTZ
    Students in a Seattle English class were told that their love of reading and writing is a characteristic of “white supremacy,” in the latest Seattle Public Schools high school controversy. The lesson plan has one local father speaking out, calling it “educational malpractice.” As part of the Black Lives Matter at School Week, World Literature and Composition students at Lincoln High School were given a handout with definitions of the “9 characteristics of white supremacy,” according to the father of a student. Given the subject matter of the class, the father found it odd this particular lesson was brought up....
  • In Red States, the Bill for School Voucher Bait-and-Switch Is Coming Due (barf)

    02/07/2024 9:51:53 AM PST · by where's_the_Outrage? · 18 replies
    The Nation ^ | Feb 7, 2024 | JENNIFER C. BERKSHIRE and JACK SCHNEIDER
    For GOP lawmakers who view public education as a quasi-socialist project, the gaping hole in state budgets left by subsidizing private school tuition is a feature, not a bug. Bait-and-switch is an old retail tactic. You lure customers in with promises of a deep discount, only to inform them that the deal has a catch. The real price tag, it turns out, is quite a bit more. Though it took supporters of school vouchers a while to catch on, they’ve learned quickly that the trick works just as well in education policy as it does in retail sales. Pick a...
  • COVID ‘failures’ like keeping schools closed led to ‘eye-wateringly’ high death rates, damning report reveals

    01/31/2024 9:31:05 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 17 replies
    NY Post ^ | 01/31/2024 | Melissa Koenig
    Doctors have released a damning new report on America’s “failures” during the COVID pandemic, revealing that keeping schools closed for longer than necessary and forcing people to mask outside led the country to experience “eye-wateringly high” death rates compared to other first-world nations. Duke University professor Gavin Yamey and Drexel University professor Ana Roux said the pandemic “failures began at the top” with poor communication from the federal government, which demonstrated a “surprising inability to generate reliable information, communicate it in a timely and consistent manner and translate it into sound policy.”
  • Iowa school to have armed staff members, including teachers

    01/26/2024 3:30:18 PM PST · by Diana in Wisconsin · 19 replies
    ABC30 Action News ^ | January 24, 2024 | CNN Staff
    SIOUX CITY, Iowa -- The topic of arming teachers in schools comes up periodically after shootings take place. Now, one school in Iowa is turning that talk into action and arming staff members, KTIV reported. "About 18 months ago, we just started looking at options. And obviously, to take the step to have armed staff in our school is a big one. And it requires a lot of conversation with a lot of stakeholders," said Siouxland Christian School Supt. Lindsay Laurich. It's a big step in school security. "My ultimate responsibility here is to protect this building to make sure...
  • 1999 Story That Proves We Live In Bizarro World Today (Old FR Thread w/Comments)

    01/25/2024 7:17:45 PM PST · by OneVike · 15 replies
    WayBack Machine ^ | 4/28/99 | Old FreeRepublic Post
    I believe we should rename the Democrat Party, the Bizarro party. Why not? After all, when you compare what the Democrat Party considers normal today compare to what was their normal was in 1999, we can clearly see they created a weird type of Bizarro World. Let us look at the evidence, what was racist yesterday is now acceptable, what was was evil is now righteous, what was illegal is now legal, what was child abuse is now a child's right, what was boy is now girl, and what was a girl is now a boy. An example of...
  • Thousands of Schools at Risk of Closing Due to Massive Drop in Enrollment

    01/19/2024 6:24:58 AM PST · by Bon of Babble · 36 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | 1/18/2023 | Mike LaChance
    Across the country, people found alternatives in home schooling, private schools and charter schools.
  • Oklahoma lawmaker wants animal control to take furries from public schools: ‘Send them to the pound’

    01/18/2024 4:57:35 PM PST · by packagingguy · 20 replies
    New York Post via MSN ^ | January 17, 2024 | Katherine Donlevy
    State Rep. Justin Humphrey introduced a bill on Tuesday that would ban furries from public schools across the state — and allow animal control to round up those who defy the proposed law. “Students who purport to be an imaginary animal or animal species, or who engage in anthropomorphic behavior commonly referred to as furries at school shall not be allowed to participate in school curriculum or activities,” House Bill 3084 states. The legislation would require parents or guardians to pick up their child from school. Otherwise, “animal control services shall be contacted to remove the student,” the bill states......