Two public school districts in Oklahoma, the Tulsa and Mustang public schools, received a downgrade in their accreditation status for allegedly violating House Bill 1775 — a bill signed into law by Gov. Kevin Stitt in 2021 that prohibits teaching…
The University of California Riverside announced at the end of July that it will provide $342,000 for “Latinx” students to conduct environmental and climate change research. There’s one problem: Federal law prohibits any entity that receives federal funding from discriminating…
Last month, 22 attorneys general from GOP-led states sued the Department of Agriculture for threatening to withhold critical school lunch funding for districts that do not adhere to the new discrimination prohibitions under Title IX. The Biden administration’s reinterpretation of…
Hostages No More: The Fight for Education Freedom and the Future of the American Child By Betsy DeVos (Center Street, 320 pages, $29) Horace Mann (1796–1859) famously commented, “We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently visited Washington, D.C., to accept the Frank Newman Award for State Innovation. His acceptance speech claimed that education is under assault: he cited book bans, speech restrictions, and the “othering” of students, teachers, and parents….
Despite attempts from liberal media outlets to downplay it, abuse of students by teachers in public schools remains a pressing problem. Vox referred to the furor over “grooming” as a “moral panic.” NPR, funded with your tax dollars, described the…
The U.S. Army War College’s newest acronym is DEI: diversity, equity, and inclusion. The Spring 2022 issue of Parameters, the flagship journal of the War College, features an article by Lt. Col. Danielle Holt (a surgeon and a graduate of…
Last week, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed the nation’s most expansive school choice program in U.S. history. The legislation calls for extending over $6,000 in educational scholarships to the parents or guardians of all Arizona students, regardless of income bracket….
“We’re thinking about homeschooling.” I’ve heard this sentence more times than I can count this year alone. When I first started homeschooling it wasn’t a political move. It wasn’t because I was fed up with the system ─ although I…
