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8 News Now obtained what appears to be audio of a teacher claiming he’d like to inflict physical harm on a student. The teacher is also recorded saying he’d like to poison the student’s food. The student, who is listed as John Doe on the federal lawsuit, is suing the Clark County School District and a special education teacher at Desert Oasis High School.Lagomarsino Law represents the 14-year-old student and they identify the teacher in the recordings as Courtney Billups. “I’d love to get him in the room. I know I’d love to get him in the room and just...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced legislation on Thursday that would make the minimum pay for public school teachers in the U.S. $60,000 a year, following calls from President Biden to give teachers a raise last month. The Pay Teachers Act of 2023, co-sponsored by a number of lawmakers including Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.), would provide states with federal funds to establish minimum teacher salaries of at least $60,000 a year. It would also triple the funding of the Title I-A program, which provides funding to schools with a high percentage of students that come from low...

A left-wing Orange County Public Schools teacher has been removed from the classroom for a race-baiting skit he forced on his sixth-graders. The school district pulled Ethan Hooper from his language arts class at Howard Middle School after he posted a TikTok video supposedly about Black History Month.

Recent reports attribute the nationwide low reading proficiency for K-12 students, in part, to progressive curricula from teachers colleges. Progressive approaches to teaching reading, one education advocate said, come from a 'desire to ... move away from what had been thought of as the drudgery and pain of institutional style education.' ... Recent reports show that school districts are ditching progressive curricula from teachers colleges and returning to best practices for reading. The nationwide low reading proficiency for K-12 students is attributed, in part, to these curricula. Though Campus Reform has identified teachers colleges as sites of social justice and...

The Flagler County Sheriff Office arrested a 17-year-old boy at Matanzas High School for attacking his teacher. Deputies say, upon arrival they saw a female paraprofessional on the ground with severe injuries after what they say was an unprovoked attack. This video contains graphic content and may be unsuitable for some viewers.

A Washington State school district was called out after one of its teachers professed their favor toward keeping secrets about school children from their supposed “Christo-fascist parents.” Karen (Kelly) Love is a faculty member at Auburn High School in Auburn, Washington who evidently thinks highly of herself as an arbiter of what parents should and shouldn’t know about their school-aged children. So much so, that she wasn’t shy about publicly sharing her view that it is a teacher’s responsibility to disregard policy and even laws about parental rights to protect the progressive agenda. America First Legal’s Ian Prior drew attention...

PRINCETON, Ind. (WEHT) — A Princeton Community High School teacher was taken into custody Monday after police received a warrant for her arrest. The jail tells us Marissa Capehart was arrested and charged with “Dissemination of Matter Harmful to Minors,” which is a felony. Two arrested after baby’s death in Evansville Capehart teaches science at the high school, according to the school’s website. According to a probable cause affidavit, Capehart showed students a video demonstrating how to perform oral sex on a male. The video shows a sex toy in place of the man’s genitals. Her bond was set at...

What she said is what many teachers think, and it’s a concept that needs to be destroyed to protect America's children. Before women’s lib, America’s teachers were often the best and brightest women in a college class because teaching was one of their few career options. Since women’s lib, the women who achieve academically usually choose majors other than teaching. Teachers today tend to fall into two categories: (1) A small number of men and women (usually conservative) with a real passion for education and (2) insecure, narcissistic people who struggle academically and look to a room full of helpless...

A pro-BLM teacher forced out of her job at a South Carolina school Once an eighth-grade history teacher at the school in small-town Hilton Head, non binary instructor Lane Cogdill was moved schools two summers ago over the since deleted TikTok video, which at the time sparked debates and even death threats for Cogdill. Amid the backlash, the teacher - also an avid TikToker with a pronounced social media following - was transferred to a nearby adult education center in Beaufort amid calls for Codgill's firing. The controversy would soon sputter out, while Cogdill would continue posting progressive, often polarizing...

A viral hoax showing a supposedly cleaned-out library as a result of a new Florida law banning explicit material in schools has resulted in a teacher being fired.Brian Covey, who was a substitute teacher for Duval County Public Schools (Jacksonville area), was told his services would no longer be needed after he posted a video making it seem as if the Mandarin Middle School library had been emptied out. When questioned about the situation at the time, Gov. Ron DeSantis denounced it as a fake narrative, noting that nothing in the law required any school to take any such action.Apparently,...

Jessica Tapia went into teaching because of how 'amazing it would be to be a light to [kids] coming from very rough homes like I did when I was a child' ... A California teacher, who lost her job after refusing to comply with a California district's gender policies, citing Christian beliefs, is blowing the whistle on the expectations she felt as a teacher to not only hide students' gender transitions from parents, but also to keep them in the dark through lying. ... In a notice under Superintendent Trenton Hansen's letterhead, reviewed by Fox News Digital, the district said...

A Georgia elementary school principal and a gym teacher who engaged in a years-long affair are both out of a job after allegedly having sex on school grounds.. Some of the trysts between Banks County Elementary School Principal Dana Simmons and physical education teacher Dylan Charles were even caught on camera by Charles’ wife. ... Charles came with apparent proof of the sexual encounters, including a photo of him and Simmons kissing mouth to mouth and another photo of a naked man and woman inside a vehicle having sex that Charles said was him and Simmons ... Other photos showed...

You can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Donald Trump is starting his third run for president much as he did during the first run. He appears to be trashing any candidate that he sees as a potential threat to his nomination. Trump is the only Republican candidate who has announced his candidacy so far. Nikki Haley is expected to do so next week. In the meantime, Trump is focused on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who hasn’t even said if he’ll run in the 2024 GOP presidential primary or not. Right now, DeSantis is busy being governor. He was re-elected...

Former President Donald Trump reposted a photo on Tuesday of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that accused him of drinking alcohol with minors when he was a high school teacher. "That's not Ron, is it? He would never do such a thing!" Trump wrote sarcastically on his social media app, Truth Social. The picture shows a 23-year-old DeSantis smiling between three women with blurred out faces, whose ages aren't clear. One of the females in the photos is holding a brown glass bottle but DeSantis isn't pictured drinking. Still, the caption reads, "Here is Ron DeSantimonious grooming high school girls with...

As for the photograph, Salon reported that DeSantis addressed the subject after being asked a question. His answer did not specifically address the claim in the meme, but did respond generally. [cut] Hill Reporter Article The second post Trump re-shared linked out to an article from Hill Reporter, which is a website described by The New York Times as being "a blog put out by a Democratic super PAC." The story was published on Oct. 24, 2021. The headline of the Hill Reporter article read, "[Exclusive] [PIC] Ron DeSantis Accused of Attending Drinking Party With Students At High School Where...

“You teach it to a group of seniors at West Jordan High and they don’t tell their parents.” Administrators, educators, and union officials in Utah were caught on video boasting about how they managed to keep teaching critical race theory or LGBTQ concepts to students, despite Utah’s bans on CRT in the classroom ... The Utah legislature passed two resolutions in May 2021 to ban CRT from schools, and the Utah Board of Education then approved similar restrictions in June 2021, ... her team gets around the rules by only telling parents what wokeness they taught kids after the fact,...

A Florida teacher resigned this week after she was caught engaging in sexually explicit video chats with her prison inmate boyfriend during school hours while in her office, according to the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department.

An Evangelical Christian teacher in England could be permanently banned from teaching after he was suspended for referring to a biologically female student as a "girl."Joshua Sutcliffe was removed in November 2017 from his position as a teacher at the Cherwell School in Oxfordshire after he allegedly discriminated against a student by stating "well done, girls" when addressing the student's small group during class. Sutcliffe was the focus of a number of allegations by the Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) during the group’s professional conduct panel last week, according to the London-based Christian Legal Centre (CLC).The hearing could ultimately result in...

A 6-year-old boy is in police custody after he shot a teacher at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia, Friday afternoon, Police Chief Steve Drew said in a news conference. “The individual is a 6-year-old student. He is right now in police custody,” Drew said. “We have been in contact with our commonwealth attorney and some other entities to help us best get services to this young man.” Drew said the female teacher – who is in her 30s – was shot inside a classroom and added that “this was not an accidental shooting.” The police chief said there...

A six year-old boy has been taken into custody after he allegedly deliberately shot his first-grade teacher at his Virginia elementary school, leaving her critically-ill. Newport News Police have taken a student, who has not been publicly identified, into custody. The female teacher, who is in her 30s, has also not been identified and was taken to Riverside Regional Medical Center. 'The individual is a six-year-old student and is right now in police custody,' Newport News Chief Scott Drew said at a press conference on Friday. 'This was not an accidental shooting. 'It was in a classroom, an altercation took...