Education - Page 269

The Breitbart editor has finally been triggered.

On January 25, Ohio University College Democrats president Sam Miller cheered as the student senate recommended no change in the campus firearms policy be made despite the legalization of campus carry.

Breitbart News Senior Editor MILO proclaimed that “non-college educated doesn’t mean stupid,” during his talk at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs tonight, adding that a majority of his non-college educated employees are “some of the smartest and most successful people.”

Thursday on CNN’s “Situation Room,” Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) said President Donald Trump’s “great wall of hate” that had a $20 billion price tag “could be spent far better in creating educational opportunity. That he said included creating jobs and “a whole

A report from The Harvard Crimson claims Harvard student activists are demanding university president Drew Faust “actively resist” President Trump.

The president of the University of New Mexico has suspended the security fee for MILO’s upcoming event at the college.

Michael Farris, a former Justice Department prosecutor and the President of the Alliance Defending Freedom, claims that university speech restrictions will get worse in response to President Trump’s first term in the oval office.

A student at Bowling Green State University accidentally confused lab equipment for a Ku Klux Klan member.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott vowed to sign school choice legislation that reaches his desk, loudly signaling he hopes to see a bill from the 85th Legislature.

The Chinese government has announced a new policy initiative to impose Mandarin on all regions of China, including many where the majority of the population have their own mother tongues. The edict also claimed the government would take measures to protect languages in danger of extinction.

Every child deserves an equal opportunity to learn. Yet today millions of children across our nation find themselves trapped in failing schools, barring them from the chance to receive the education they need to climb out of poverty and up the economic ladder.

An estimated 4,000 Texans are expected to rally in Austin today to show their support for expanded school choice during National School Choice Week. They will bring their message to the south steps of the Capitol building.

A school board member from a northwest suburban Chicago school district resigned Monday after causing controversy over several tweets he made criticizing some participants of the recent women’s march.

An unsanctioned teachers group in the Philadelphia School District is pushing a Black Lives Matter curriculum on children but is facing skepticism and complaints for its efforts, a report says.

A leading Conservative MP has attacked as “unacceptable” the government’s failure to make sex education in schools compulsory, accusing ministers of prioritising Britain’s exit from the European Union (EU).

An editorial from The Boston Globe argues that the intense reaction to Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump’s nominee for the Secretary of Education, reveals “how ideological and unmoored” the debate on campus rape culture has become.

A January 19 survey of Ohio colleges and universities found most boards and presidents determined to prohibit guns for self-defense despite a new law allowing concealed carry permit holders to be armed on campus.

A mother sued her child’s school district in West Virginia over their 75-year practice of putting kids in Bible classes.

Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (HELP), Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), says he is delaying the initial vote on Besty DeVos, nominee for secretary of education.

Two helicopters, an FBI bomb squad and riot police have been deployed at MILO’s event at the University of Washington.

Posters advertising Breitbart Senior Editor MILO’s show at the University of Washington were allegedly pulled down by students who were offended by the message on them.

The President of the University of Washington has written a blog post discussing the importance of freedom of expression, yet admits to contacting the state’s attorney general in an attempt to find “sufficient grounds” on which to ban MILO from talking at the university.

Joe Lieberman, the 2000 Democratic nominee for vice president and former Connecticut senator, told Breitbart News he testified in favor of Betsy DeVos, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s nominee for secretary of education, because she cares about helping schoolchildren, not politics.

A fourth grade teacher from Michigan will not permit his students to watch President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration speech Friday.

President-elect Donald Trump is already preparing for his re-election campaign in 2020 with a new campaign slogan.

A bill in the New Jersey State Senate would allow high schools to award varsity letters to students competing in non-athletic activities.

Resident advisors at Clemson University were made to take a class on the First Amendment this month, after they previously banned references to the Harambe meme in student dorms.

Senate Democrats on the chamber’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee pressed Betsy DeVos during her confirmation hearing Tuesday evening with questions about her financial contributions, her knowledge of federal education laws, and her intentions toward the nation’s public schools.

A Democratic state assemblyman from California has announced a bill that would require the State Board of Education to develop a curriculum that will “ensure that all California students will learn about how the Russian government conspired to influence the United States Presidential Election to elect Donald Trump.”

One Texas lawmaker’s bill, if passed during the 2017 legislative session, stands to derail school choice options for failing campuses by taking them down a progressive community schools path and bypassing existing options that include re-purposing a campus as a public charter school.

Administrators at the University of New Mexico have drastically raised security fees just days before a scheduled MILO event.

U.S. Department of Education nominee Betsy DeVos will give her opening statement to Senate HELP Committee members Tuesday afternoon, but she is not expected to mention the Common Core standards reform in that statement.

Former House Speaker John Boehner is endorsing Betsy DeVos as the next federal education department secretary.

Progressive groups want Senators on the education committee to recuse themselves if they got campaign contributions from Betsy DeVos, the nominee for the education department post.

A Maryland school official was fired from her job after she corrected a student’s spelling over Twitter.

The School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS) Students’ Union has released a report which claims the “whiteness” of the school curriculum, coupled with the “unconscious racism” of white academics, is having a negative impact on Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) undergraduates.