The “ministerial exception” is under attack again. And this time on two fronts. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 10th District ruled in June 2022 that a religion teacher at a Colorado Christian high school — a “chaplain”…
Did you see this story? A group of white elementary school kids beat three of their black schoolmates. They then ordered them to get on their knees and say, “Make America great again!” Local white leaders told people to stop…
A soul-crushing weakness has crept into Western education in the past two decades that has increased student anxiety and depression and decimated basic skills. Five years ago, Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff called this crisis “The Coddling of the American…
Earlier this year, the Chicago Board of Education’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released its annual report, which notes, “In Fiscal Year 2022, the OIG received 1,825 complaints alleging misconduct, waste, fraud and financial mismanagement at Chicago Public Schools…
During the last few years, most conservatives have become at least dimly aware that leftist ideology, in the guise of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), has infected public education. It’s unlikely, however, that many Americans realize just how far the…
Rewriting history. Controlling the narrative. Gaslighting. Damage control. Going on offense. Whatever you call it, the teachers unions were back at it recently, attempting to wipe clean a whiteboard scribbled with disastrous test-score numbers and evidence of the social and…
Rather than granting or denying cert to a case involving a North Carolina charter school, the U.S. Supreme Court Monday sent the case to the Biden administration for further consideration. In a one-sentence directive, the court asked the U.S. solicitor…
If there’s one group the education establishment wants to stop, it is parents, many of them Asians, who push their students to excel. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia, is the best high school in…
Have you heard that there’s a “national teacher shortage” in our public schools across the country? Well, apparently it’s a real thing. We know this because CBS News tells us so: The Department of Education reports a general shortage of teachers in…
