The Republican senator who introduced new Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee told reporters shortly after the Senate’s Tuesday vote to confirm DeVos that her taking over federal education programs is long overdue.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new documentary, Hate Spaces: The Politics of Intolerance on Campus, aims to expose what it calls the the left’s coalition with radical Islamic and antisemitic groups on college campuses throughout the United States, working together to marginalize pro-Israel students.
Vice President Mike Pence cast an historic deciding vote Tuesday to confirm Betsy DeVos as the next secretary of the U.S. Department of Education.
Authorities arrested a north Texas teenager accused of taking part in a hoax bomb threat last week to get out of high school early. Law enforcement agents continue to search for a second suspect believed to be out of state.
Muslims outnumber Christian pupils in more than 30 church schools nationwide, including one which proudly proclaims to have a “100 per cent Muslim population”.
Some of the nation’s leading Catholic educators say a crisis in Catholic higher education can only be fully addressed when Catholic laity educate themselves in the teachings of the Church, and colleges and universities that call themselves “Catholic” actually live and teach the faith they claim to profess.
The Task Force on Diversity at all women’s university Barnard College has released draft recommendations for the school that include hiring a Chief Diversity Officer and social justice workshops.
The Mayor of Berkeley and the University of California Police Department (UCPD) union blamed the administration of UC Berkeley on Friday for not preparing for the violent riot that forced the cancellation of a speech by Breitbart News tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos, according to Bay Area public broadcaster KQED.
A 12-year-old boy in Missouri was attacked on a school bus by his peers for wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat—and was suspended from school as a result.
With debate on Betsy DeVos’ nomination ended, President Donald Trump’s pick for the nation’s top education post will likely require the rare situation of a sitting vice president to trek over to the Senate to break a 50-50 tie in order to get her over the finish line.
Following the violent protest at UC-Berkeley earlier this week, Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos told Fox News Channel’s Jeanine Pirro on “Justice” Saturday that freedom of speech is “under threat” on college campuses. “I’m very popular on campus because I talk
A Massachusetts college is responding to Trump’s executive order on immigration by offering a refugee a full scholarship to study at the institution.
Another troubled Texas school district surrendered to the state despite an appeal to thwart its takeover and an investigation that revealed internal mismanagement.
In an interview broadcast Friday on Breitbart News Daily, author Ann Coulter talked about the violent demonstrations left-wingers have employed to shut down speech they dislike, notably Milo Yiannopoulos of Breitbart News at UC Berkeley this week.
While the battle rages on in the Senate over the nomination of Betsy DeVos for Education Secretary, there is opposition from two Republican senators, Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK). Collins has a 100 percent rating and Murkowski an 89 percent rating from the National Education Association. There is also opposition by another billionaire in the school choice movement, Eli Broad, who has given money to both Democrats and Republicans.
A transgender teenager who was born a girl is suing her former school after they refused to let her wear a boy’s uniform, saying it was “just a phase”.
In honor of National Catholic Schools Week, President Donald Trump is praising the nation’s Catholic educators as “vital to our success and prosperity as a country.”
MILO’s event was cancelled after left-wing rioters, who the university claim were not students, smashed ATMs and bank windows, looted a Starbucks, beat Trump supporters, and pepper sprayed innocent individuals.
Four people were arrested at a New York University event where libertarian commentator and VICE co-founder Gavin McInnes delivered a speech, after “anti-fascist” protesters started to become violent and throw punches.
Vice President Mike Pence will travel to Capitol Hill for a potential tie-breaking vote on President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of education, Betsy DeVos.
Ashley Park PreK-8 School fifth grade English teacher Barry White Jr. has an elaborate, personalized handshake for each of his students. “They know when they get to the front door we do our ‘good mornings,’ and then it’s time to go,”
A Texas middle school teacher is fighting to keep her job after word spread that she was an adult film actress in at least 16 productions more than a decade ago.
A substitute teacher in Oklahoma was arrested for indecent exposure after she performed a cartwheel in front of her class without wearing undergarments.
Continuing the progressive narrative that abortion is “healthcare,” the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is reaffirming its position that adolescents have a “right” to abortion even without the knowledge and consent of their parents.
Following a large brawl at Terry High School in Terry, MS, parents and attorneys are concerned the policies in place are leading to more fights due to how it punishes the students, says a WJTV report. A large fight took place
The rabbi of a California university says a proposed student resolution to ban Sabra company products from the university’s dining hall “is about more than hummus” and indicative of anti-Jewish sentiments among students.
Campus Carry legislation passed in the Wyoming House by a margin of 40-19 on Wednesday night. The legislation is now headed for the Wyoming Senate.
A student at Amherst College in Massachusetts accused of sexual misconduct is being refused the right to defend himself on the basis that it would cause “psychological harm” to his accuser.
Senate Republicans are working to secure the nomination for education department secretary for Betsy DeVos after two Republican senators said they could not support her.
Several schools around the country are offering counseling sessions to students in response to Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration.
The Tacoma Public School Superintendent is now demanding “safe zones” for migrant students after President Donald Trump’s immigration executive orders were signed earlier last week.
Newly installed New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu’s nominee for the post of Commissioner of Education is being subjected to what some in the state are calling an “inquisition” and a “bigoted witch hunt” at the hands of a Democrat member of the state’s Executive Council.
Roughly 1,000 employees of a Texas border school district learned their Social Security numbers were compromised in a data security breach caused by a questionable email.
Applications for the Yiannopoulos Privilege Grant, a college tuition grant created by Breitbart News Senior Editor MILO exclusively for white men, are now being accepted.
President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the federal education department was approved by the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee along party lines, 12-11.
Two lawmakers proposed amending the Texas Constitution to shore up protections for private and home school students from state and local regulations.
The boy scouts organization has quickly adopted a transgender policy change which ends its 106-year role as a single-sex character-development group for young boys.
Grassroots activists who have been battling against federal control of education in the states say the list of staffers already working for the Trump administration’s education department looks much like a cross between what a “President” Jeb Bush would have ordered and what President Barack Obama left behind on his way out.
The Texas “Tebow bill” is back. Two lawmakers filed bills named for Tim Tebow, the former Heisman Trophy-winning University of Florida football player who was homeschooled but played on his local public school team. While proponents express excitement over a third attempt to pass “Tebow”, homeschoolers voiced concerns over the legislation.
A former California high school student forced to urinate in a bucket in class after her request for a bathroom break was denied won a $1.25 million lawsuit.
