Houston School District Superintendent Suddenly Resigns
Longtime Houston Independent School District (ISD) Superintendent, Dr. Terry Grier, unexpectedly announced his resignation effective March 1.
Education
Texas High School Locked Down After Weapon Reported, 9/11 Hoax Say Police
Plano police have said the call from a stolen cell phone reporting thata student had a weapon and a bomb turned out to be a hoax, according to a report of Fox4News in Dallas.
CA Students in Mandatory Sexual Assault Course Hacked
Roughly 80,00 California State college students who were enrolled in a mandatory sexual violence prevention and mutual consent course have had their information comprised.
Less Than 50% of California Students Meet Common Core Test Standards
On Wednesday, California’s Board of Education acknowledged that more than half of the state’s students in third through eighth and 11th grades failed Common Core math and English tests. The results of the Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments were announced for the first time, reported The Fresno Bee.
Parents, Kids Protest New Pot Shop in San Diego
A marijuana dispensary scheduled to open in October elicited a protest from community leaders in San Diego on Wednesday.
7th Graders in Tennessee Made to Recite ‘Allah Is the Only God’ in Public School
Middle school parents in Tennessee are up in arms on learning that their children were instructed to recite and write, “Allah is the only god,” as part of a world history project.
Heat Wave Causes Early Dismissal of Bay Area Schools
A scorching summer heat wave resulted in the early closure of all eight schools in the Bay Area’s Campbell Union High School District on Wednesday and Thursday.
Planned Parenthood Clinic Moving Next Door To Charter School
A Washington Post article about the relocation of Planned Parenthood’s new flagship abortion clinic next door to Two Rivers Public Charter School indicates the school’s executive director appears concerned about the images of aborted babies her students could see on the signs of pro-life protesters. But no mention is made about concerns of the abortions going on inside.
Author Chronicles Failed Education Scheme by Facebook’s Zuckerberg and Cory Booker
According to the New York Times, while Dale Russakoff’s new book, The Prize: Who’s in Charge of America’s Schools? has just hit bookstores Tuesday, it is already “a source of enormous contention.” It begins in 2010 when Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg became the subject of much media attention as he announced on Oprah that he would throw $100 million into Newark, New Jersey’s failing public school system.
Southern Poverty Law Center Pushes Common Core-Aligned LGBT Curriculum
The radical Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has developed a Common Core-aligned “anti-bias” K-12 curriculum–which it says is meant to teach tolerance in schools.
Fighting Islamicization and Antisemitism in America
A new form of antisemitism is taking place in America’s public schools via textbooks, activists say. They are spearheading a nationwide movement to thwart the Islamic indoctrination of America’s youth.
Labor Day Shock: $187B Federal Student Loan Delinquency
Despite the Labor Day unemployment rate supposedly falling to 5.1 percent, the total delinquent loan amount for the 40 million student loan borrowers is now about $340 billion, according to the US Department of Education’s Federal Student Aid website.
Judge Rules Transgender Born a Girl Cannot Use Boys’ Restrooms
On Friday, a U.S. District judge in Norfolk, Virginia, refused to allow a 16-year-old who was born a girl but later deemed to have gender dysphoria to use the boys’ restrooms in the high school.
Only 47% of Blacks at Berkeley Feel ‘Respected’
Black leaders at the University of California Berkeley have decided to ratchet up their efforts at bringing more blacks to campus and making them feel more comfortable.
SDSU Sued Over False Sexual Assault Accusations
A former San Diego State University student accused of sexual assault last December has announced plans to bring a lawsuit against the institution after charges were dropped and the student’s suspension was lifted.
Native American: I Was Kicked out of Class over ‘Genocide’
A Native American student at Cal State Sacramento University claimed that she was disenrolled from her United States History class because she insisted that Native Americans were the victims of “genocide.”
Higher Education Official Demands University ‘Sexual Consent Workshops’, Government Orders Inquiry
A senior higher education official has urged all universities to establish compulsory ‘sexual consent workshops’ in order to teach students that “no means no”. Nicola Dandridge, Chief Executive of Universities UK – the university vice-chancellors advocacy organisation – called for the move,
Hiding Common Core’s Damage: New SAT Won’t Allow Comparison To Prior Years’ Scores
“Next year the College Board will roll out a major change in the SAT that will make comparisons with past results impossible, and allow Common Core proponents to argue ‘these are different and better tests, so don’t pay attention to past results,'” Wurman states. “We are lucky that this year’s SAT has not changed yet, so the decline is clearly visible and cannot be hidden or denied.” The College Board president is David Coleman, the so-called “architect” of the Common Core standards.
Caught on Cellphone: Wild Texas High School Brawl Called ‘Just Another Fight’
A Texas high school brawl was captured on a cellphone. Back-to-school means back-to-brawling for some out-of- control Texas teenagers at one high school. On the second week of the new school year, double dramatic slugfests were caught on one student’s cellphone and even were called “just another fight.” Meanwhile, the violent video made local news coverage, got picked up by sister stations in other TV markets, and landed on Yahoo News!, but no arrests were made.
UT Removes Gender-Neutral Pronouns
The University of Tennessee, bucking political correctness, has ruled that the school’s Office for Diversity and Inclusion website will have to remove gender-neutral pronouns.
SAT Scores Hit Four-Decade Low
Graduating high school students’ SAT college admission scores fell again this year–to the lowest level in four decades. Rapidly growing expenditure on education seems to be producing poor test results.
Kasich Campaign Hit By Charter School Data Rigging Scandal
Newly-released documents indicate that the husband of Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s presidential campaign manager participated with other Ohio Department of Education (ODE) staff in a coordinated effort to falsely inflate the evaluations of some charter school sponsors.
Texas Governor Appoints Advisory Board to ‘Emergency Item’ University Research Initiative
Texas Governor Greg Abbott appointed nine members to the new Governor’s University Research Initiative Advisory Board on Thursday. The initiative was one of his higher education emergency items listed during the last legislative session. It was also one of gubernatorial candidate Abbott’s campaign promises.
Study Finds Students with Southern Accents Often Discriminated Against in Colleges
A new study conducted by researchers at North Carolina State University finds that students who have a southern or Appalachian accent are often discriminated against at the nation’s colleges and universities because of how they sound.
Gaza Schools Expel Girls for Not Wearing Headscarves
Numerous high schools in Gaza have begun to expel female students because they did not wear headscarves on the first day of school. There is no law that states female students must wear a headscarf, but that did not stop school administrators from punishing those who do not wear one.
