
Led by an activist, left-wing teacher, high school students at Chicago’s Roosevelt public high school recently engaged in a boycott aimed at changing the way school lunches are made and delivered to kids in the Chicago public school system.
by Warner Todd Huston27 Dec 2015, 5:13 PM PST0

The nation’s largest abortion provider Planned Parenthood announced in a tweet Wednesday that it is working with militant LGBT groups to promote sex-related curricula in schools. The groups want all students to get instructions on the lifestyles of “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth.”
by Dr. Susan Berry4 Dec 2015, 12:06 PM PST0

During floor speeches, Republican lawmakers claimed the bill “reduces the federal role” in education – even though it extends federal oversight of education to formally include pre-school instead of only grades K-12. They also say the measure would stop the federal government from coercing states to implement the Common Core standards – a point that is hotly debated by conservative activists who say the bill actually cements the Common Core further.
by Dr. Susan Berry3 Dec 2015, 5:30 AM PST0

Ahmed Mohamed’s lawyers are demanding $15 million, according to letters to the city of Irving, Texas, and Irving Independent School District (ISD) that list their grievances. While it is possible that on one or more issues Mohamed might have a claim, most—if not all—of this lawsuit appears meritless.
by Ken Klukowski26 Nov 2015, 8:35 AM PST0

Facebook mogul Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have announced they will fund a private comprehensive preschool and K-8 school for disadvantaged children in the East Palo Alto area.
by William Bigelow23 Oct 2015, 10:02 AM PST0

Illegal immigrant students have a right to a quality, taxpayer-funded education that prepares them for college and a career, according to the Department of Education.
by Caroline May21 Oct 2015, 8:22 AM PST0

California Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed a bill that would have mandated the creation of a uniform ethnic studies course for public schools in California.
by Daniel Nussbaum13 Oct 2015, 1:22 PM PST0

Politico has issued a notice to GOP 2016 contenders: “Common Core has won the war.”
by Dr. Susan Berry12 Oct 2015, 8:29 PM PST0

The existing escalation of Syrian refugees is but an entrée, a taste of things to come. The ten thousand President Obama announced recently, on top of 1,500 already accepted this year, is the beginning of the migration, not the end.
by John Hayward18 Sep 2015, 2:51 PM PST0

In a decade, the graduating high school class of 2025 is expected to be the largest and most racially diverse on record, with white students making up just half the class, according to a recent analysis.
by Caroline May18 Sep 2015, 10:13 AM PST0

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.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.10 Sep 2015, 5:21 AM PST0

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.
by Dr. Susan Berry8 Sep 2015, 12:22 PM PST0

As the Chicago Public School District’s budget continues to crash, officials have announced the next round of layoffs, with over 450 employees getting the axe in schools across the city.
by Warner Todd Huston10 Aug 2015, 6:16 PM PST0

The California Policy Center has just published an exhaustive study regarding the $149.2 billion Californians have borrowed over the last 14 years to finance public school construction. Despite the sob stories about dilapidated facilities, huge amounts of cash has been siphoned off due to union project labor agreements, environmentalist lawsuits, and inadequate planning and public oversight.
by Chriss W. Street6 Aug 2015, 9:30 AM PST0

The personal finance social network WalletHub ranked public school systems around the nation, and found that California’s ranked as the ninth-worst. Factors measured by WalletHub included: Test results in reading and math Remote-learning opportunities from online public schools Dropout rate
by William Bigelow31 Jul 2015, 10:20 AM PST0

Now students as young as sixth grade have ready access to taxpayer-funded birth control, without ever having to tell mom and dad.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.5 Jul 2015, 9:12 AM PST0

The number of homeschooled children in the United States has soared nearly 62 percent over the past decade, and national homeschooling organizations are anticipating even further growth in home education as a result of the Supreme Court’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide.
by Dr. Susan Berry3 Jul 2015, 5:44 PM PST0

Nearly 10 percent of the nation’s K-12 enrollment in public schools were “English Language Learners” (ELLs) during the 2012-2013 academic calendar, according to a new fact sheet from the Migration Policy Institute.
by Caroline May4 Jun 2015, 2:21 PM PST0

“Community schools” is not a widely-known term, but today representatives in the Texas State House will vote on House Bill 1891, entitled “Relating to Texas Community Schools” – legislation that would, if passed, fundamentally change the role of public education in students’ lives, in ways that conflict with Texas values.
by Merrill Hope13 May 2015, 8:28 AM PST0

Results of the “Nation’s Report Card” released this week by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) show that only 18 percent of 8th-graders are “proficient” or above in U.S. history, and only 23 percent are proficient in civics.
by Dr. Susan Berry4 May 2015, 2:24 PM PST0

Slowly we’ve witnessed an erosion of local control in public education across this country, though it hasn’t been as obvious since the Obama administration began the latest reform dubbed “Common Core.”
by Ann Marie Banfield21 Mar 2015, 8:44 AM PST0

A year after the Obama administration issued new school discipline policies based on the concern that students of color are “disproportionately impacted” by suspensions and expulsions, a journalist proposes the liberal policies–based in social justice ideology–are making schools less safe.
by Dr. Susan Berry18 Mar 2015, 12:02 PM PST0

Among the news items at the radical Zinn Education Project this month is a post highlighting the work of Alison Kysia, author of “A People’s History of Muslims in the United States: What School Textbooks and the Media Miss,” part
by Dr. Susan Berry16 Mar 2015, 11:48 AM PST0

In a state where leftists use the public schools to promote their socialist ideology with impunity, imagine my surprise when a teacher handed out a flyer promoting racism: “In order to challenge racism and dismantle white supremacy, white people need to unlearn racism and discover the ways we enact white privilege.”
by Assemblyman Tim Donnelly24 Feb 2015, 12:18 PM PST0

The Broad Foundation, disappointed with the lack of progress in urban school districts, has suspended its $1 million scholarship prize.
by William Bigelow4 Feb 2015, 12:42 PM PST0