Education - Page 267

A resolution by the San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) to invite newly confirmed U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos for a visit has been rescinded at the urging of the city’s teachers’ union.

Kentucky U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie says his bill that would abolish the federal Department of Education should be taken seriously because the interest it has generated means the measure could ultimately end up on President Donald Trump’s desk.

A campus group demanding that the University of Massachusetts shield students from federal immigration law is preparing a strike “resisting the continued and intensified oppression” of migrants.

Yvette Felarca, a public school teacher and national organizer for the far-left extremist group By Any Means Necessary (BAMN), smeared Breitbart Senior Editor MILO as a fascist before claiming he’s leading a “movement of genocide” and needs to be stopped during Tucker Carlson Tonight on Monday.

Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) is a co-sponsor of a recently introduced bill that would eliminate the federal education department.

A Florida teacher found a 5-year-old boy chewing on a used condom on the school playground, police said.

The Cornell student government rejected a motion that would have pushed the administration to increase the faculty’s ideological diversity.

Breitbart’s Tom Ciccotta shut down a feminist Bucknell University professor after she repeatedly interrupted Christina Hoff Sommers during an event in Lewisburg, PA, on Thursday night.

Baylor University joined the mushrooming list of American college campuses eager to declare sanctuary campus status. A handful of graduate students from the religion department petitioned to defy federal and state laws to provide a safe haven to students, faculty, and community members living in the United States illegally.

“Health officials are recommending that 240 people at Renton’s Hazen High School get tested for tuberculosis (TB) after someone at the school was diagnosed with the infectious disease,” the Seattle Times reported on January 12.

The Heartland Institute’s senior fellow for education policy explains why newly confirmed U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos would do well to “improve her standing with grassroots groups” by first addressing local control of education before she moves ahead on school choice.

The president of one of the nation’s largest teachers’ unions is condemning those protesters who attempted to block Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos from entering a Washington, D.C. public school she was scheduled to visit on Friday.

Last week, the student senate at Santa Clara University rejected Turning Point USA, a conservative non-profit organization, from receiving official status at the school because the students believe the group makes other students “feel uncomfortable” and goes against “humanity.”

Newly sworn-in U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was greeted by a group of protesters blocking the front entrance to a Washington, D.C. school she was scheduled to visit Friday.

Stalin wasn’t all bad, you know. Sure he was a murderous thug responsible for around 50 million deaths, while reducing the rest of the population to a state of misery, poverty, and near-permanent terror. Sure his collective farming policy turned breadbaskets into famine-starved hellholes where cannibalism was rife and his Five Year Plans destroyed what was left of the Russian economy after Lenin.

An influx of up to 300,000 migrant children could overwhelm the German school system and lead to a ghettoisation of German classrooms hindering attempts at integration.

The FBI has launched an investigation into emails sent to Michigan undergraduates, written by someone posing as their instructor, threatening violence against Jews and blacks, The Algemeiner has learned.

A student leader at McGill University in Montreal justified encouraging his social media followers to “punch a Zionist,” due to the policies of the Israeli government.

A newlywed former California high school teacher was arrested for having a lesbian affair with a 14-year-old student.

AEI resident scholar Christina Hoff Sommers discussed the time she was made to bring “six martial arts experts” to a free speech event in Portland during her talk at Bucknell University on Thursday with Breitbart’s Tom Ciccotta.

Breitbart News campus correspondent Tom Ciccotta claimed America “is in desperate need of individuals who have the capacity to bring us together,” during his event with AEI resident scholar Christina Hoff Sommers at Bucknell University, Thursday.

Breitbart News campus correspondent Tom Ciccotta slammed Bucknell University Professor Marcellus Andrews during his event at the college with AEI resident scholar Christina Hoff Sommers, Thursday, after Andrews allegedly called conservative students “fascists” and encouraged others “to impose a steep and lasting price,” on them.

California Democrats have proposed a law to give refugees in-state tuition at publicly-funded colleges and universities, and grant to others “priority enrollment status” over U.S. citizens.

Breitbart News campus correspondent Tom Ciccotta introduces AEI resident scholar Christina Hoff Sommers at Bucknell University, where the two will talk about intellectual diversity on college campuses.

A Tennessee bill designed to protect freedom of speech on college campuses, known as “The MILO Bill,” was filed today with a press conference held afterward.

Colleges should be places where free thought is encouraged, not met with riots in the streets. For UC Berkeley to declare it has an agenda contrary to Yiannopoulos is telling. It’s obvious the modern campus climate is, and has been for a long time, a progressive one. But if we don’t allow our young people to exchange rational ideas in a peaceful manner in a place that’s supposedly dedicated to learning, what hope does our country—one that is founded on the principle of “ensuring that there is no prohibition on … abridging the freedom of speech”—have left?

Heritage Foundation Research Associate Mary Clare Reim spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Thursday about the Betsy DeVos confirmation for Education Department secretary and what it means for education going forward.

University of Florida associate professor Michelle Campos generally believes more guns equal more crime and specifically believes allowing law-abiding students to be armed for self-defense will “endanger” faculty and staff.

Police arrested a Texas preschool teacher late Monday afternoon following accusations he sexually assaulted a four-year-old girl in the school’s bathroom.

A professor at California State University Fullerton assaulted a student while the College Republicans club was counter-protesting a “No Ban No Wall” protest held by the school’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, in response to President Trump’s travel ban.

Newly sworn-in U.S. Education Department Secretary Betsy DeVos told her staff members that, despite disagreements with others, she would be working to “find common ground” so that the department’s overriding focus would be students and their success in school.

UC Berkeley chancellor Nicholas Dirks said President Trump’s funding threat was “ill-informed,” and accused Breitbart of “distorting the truth.”

TEL AVIV – A freshman at Stanford University condemned the academic institution for providing students who were adversely affected from the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president with a “vast network” of support while failing to protect Jewish students from anti-Semitic acts.

A new study ranked Tel Aviv University among the top schools producing billion-dollar startups.

Americans from across the political spectrum are voicing strong reactions to the Senate’s confirmation of now-Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) is introducing legislation that would abolish the federal education department.