
California’s record drought and the state’s inability to manage it has created shantytowns reminiscent of Great Depression-era “Hoovervilles” in once-vibrant agricultural communities across the Golden State.
by Daniel Nussbaum21 Dec 2015, 12:00 AM PST0

The anti-Christian Human Rights Campaign is asking the federal government to harass Christian schools that have asked for or been granted waivers that would allow them to live out their Christian faith.
by Austin Ruse20 Dec 2015, 5:47 PM PST0

On December 16, school board members in Keene, Texas, voted not simply to allow armed teachers, but also to provide the handguns teachers will carry.
by AWR Hawkins20 Dec 2015, 4:22 PM PST0

Police say the death of a 23-year-old man who was found unresponsive at the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity in Berkeley early Saturday morning is “suspicious.” The deceased individual was not a current student at UC Berkeley.
by Adelle Nazarian20 Dec 2015, 10:55 AM PST0

The Islamic Speakers Bureau of Atlanta, (ISB) Georgia is working with Muslim middle and high school students on how to handle “attacks” against them or Islam, presumably by Americans, says the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
by Dr. Susan Berry20 Dec 2015, 9:06 AM PST0

Adding to other disappointments for conservatives, the FY 2016 omnibus spending bill does not include reauthorization for the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (DCOSP).
by Inez Feltscher20 Dec 2015, 8:42 AM PST0

A Massachusetts court has ruled that a Catholic high school violated a gay man’s rights when it revoked a job offer after he informed them he was in a same-sex marriage.
by Dr. Susan Berry19 Dec 2015, 7:50 AM PST0

The Dallas Independent School District released the electronic mail threat received by staff on two of its campuses, revealing the hideous terror threat sent to schools across Texas this week, including the state’s largest school district in Houston. It was similar to the ones received by the Los Angeles Unified School District and New York schools.
by Merrill Hope19 Dec 2015, 7:04 AM PST0

Controversy erupted over one of the songs students performed during a Minnesota public high school’s Thursday night holiday concert, “Eid un Sa’Eid – Zain Bhikha.” This Ramadan-inspired song included the phrase “Allahu Akbar,” Arabic for “God is Great.”
by Merrill Hope18 Dec 2015, 11:43 AM PST0

The school board for PS 169 in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, overturned a radical decision to ban the Pledge of Allegiance, Thanksgiving, and Santa Claus.
by Mary Chastain18 Dec 2015, 11:18 AM PST0

Augusta County Public Schools in Virginia are closed Friday, after parents objected to a ninth grade geography assignment that required students to copy the Shahada, an Islamic statement of faith that says, “There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.”
by Dr. Susan Berry18 Dec 2015, 6:46 AM PST0

A Creighton University literature professor reportedly gave his students a final exam with a question that attacked GOP frontrunner Donald Trump as – among other things – the “Anti-Christ.”
by Dr. Susan Berry18 Dec 2015, 4:59 AM PST0

British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis recommended Wednesday that Jewish schools in the United Kingdom teach — Islam.
by Pamela Geller17 Dec 2015, 8:26 PM PST0

School districts across Texas are reporting the receipt of threats similar in nature to those received by other schools across the United States. The threats were determined not to be credible and schools were not shut down in Texas.
by Bob Price17 Dec 2015, 9:21 AM PST0

MCALLEN, Texas — Parents in this border city received a message from the McAllen Independent School District advising them that they had also received a threat of violence similar to those sent to other districts.
by Ildefonso Ortiz17 Dec 2015, 6:50 AM PST0

A Michigan Catholic high school run by the Christian Brothers of Ireland is under fire for the creation of a “sacred space” for its Muslim students to worship during school hours.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.17 Dec 2015, 5:20 AM PST0

Orange County’s Chapman University was evacuated Tuesday and cleared Tuesday night following a report of a man “possibly” carrying a gun.
by Michelle Moons16 Dec 2015, 9:19 PM PST0

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) received notice of a terror bomb threat, which is now being deemed a hoax, on Monday night. Yet it took until 7:09 a.m. the next morning for the district to begin notifying parents that the school would be closed on Tuesday.
by Adelle Nazarian16 Dec 2015, 11:11 AM PST0

LAPD Chief Charlie Beck is defending Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Superintendent Ramon Cortines’s decision to close the district’s schools on Tuesday because of an emailed threat.
by William Bigelow16 Dec 2015, 10:49 AM PST0

A political science professor at Wheaton College is on administrative leave after wearing a hijab to show solidarity with Muslims.
by Dr. Susan Berry16 Dec 2015, 10:18 AM PST0

A group of professors at the University of Virginia (UVA) has an online petition in support of Muslims and against the call by GOP frontrunner Donald Trump for a temporary ban on Muslims coming into the United States to protect Americans from possible terrorists.
by Dr. Susan Berry16 Dec 2015, 8:09 AM PST0

Gov. Greg Abbott tapped longtime Dallas Independent School District Board of Trustee Mike Morath as the state’s next Education Commissioner to oversee the Texas Education Agency (TEA) for the state’s 1,200 school districts and charters, a decision already receiving mixed reviews.
by Merrill Hope16 Dec 2015, 5:29 AM PST0

The nation’s two biggest school systems – New York City and Los Angeles – received threats of a large-scale attack Tuesday, and L.A. reacted by shutting down the entire district. New York dismissed the warning as an amateurish hoax and held class as usual.
by Breitbart News15 Dec 2015, 3:15 PM PST0

In the face of the growing threat of attacks against unarmed students and faculty around the country, southern Indiana’s West Clark Community School District is considering arming a number of teachers in each school for self-defense.
by AWR Hawkins15 Dec 2015, 1:39 PM PST0

Male college students accused of rape after casual alcohol and sex hook-ups have been handed over to campus feminist sex crime “courts” that provide little to nothing in the way of due process.
by Dr. Susan Berry14 Dec 2015, 11:08 AM PST0