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A new sign posted outside the school building in Claude, Texas, gives criminals advance warning that the staff is armed and “may use whatever force necessary to protect… students.”

Texas public and charter school students barely got settled into their new classrooms Monday when three new cases of teacher-student sexual misconduct emerged.

The anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement is to be considered antisemitic, students at one of Germany’s oldest and most prestigious universities determined earlier this month.

Teachers are increasingly armed in Ohio, and those who carry are being taught to take out “active killers” via “practical violence response training.”

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has prevailed in another case involving the rights of Texans today. The United States District Court for the Western District of Texas issued an Order denying a request by three University of Texas professors to block enforcement of Texas’ new campus carry law.

A Texas teacher’s “no homework” policy is going viral after introducing a student-centered approach to homework.

A Florida school district is inviting parents to excuse their children from reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.

In fact, however, the unpopular nationalized Common Core standards are what Hillary and Bill Clinton have been working toward for years.

A federal judge has entered an order blocking the Obama Administration’s mandate requiring public schools to allow transgender or gender fluid students to use the bathroom of their choice. The ruling comes just before many schools open for the fall.

The price tag of one Texas school district’s high school football stadium and events center just ballooned to $70 million, making it, reportedly, the most expensive high school football complex in the United States.

Bristol University has unveiled a range of scholarships for what they identify as “refugees and asylum seekers”, allowing them to attend the Russell Group institution for free. The announcement comes as a record number of pupils across British VI forms and

A group of 15 University of California, Irvine alumni — who graduated in 1976 — donated $17,000 in total recently to spend one nostalgic night in their old, co-ed college dormitory, Sierra Hall.

The Princeton University HR department is telling employees not to use the word “man” in an effort to become more gender-inclusive.

Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “On the Record,” former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said adding competition through school choice with vouchers and charter schools programs is the way to fix the education system in the inner cities that could

President Barack Obama’s deputies will insert a rule in federal regulations on Friday that decrees all single-sex bathrooms in federal facilities must be opened to both sexes.

The National Association of College and University Attorneys is advising university administrators to destroy emails that could potentially change the outcome of campus sexual misconduct lawsuits.

UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks, 66, announced Tuesday that once a successor is chosen to replace him, he will step down from his post.

Oklahoma Wesleyan University is joining a lawsuit against the Office of Civil Rights over a statute that allows students to be deemed guilty of rape by universities by only a “more likely than not” preponderance standard.

Controversial Muslim cleric and Texas charter school bigwig Fethullah Gülen is a wanted man. The Republic of Turkey demanded two life sentences plus another 1,900 years in prison for the reclusive Pennsylvania-based imam Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accused of masterminding July’s failed coup.

TEL AVIV – Pro-Palestinian student group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) has been compiling lists of Jewish students and their dorm addresses on college campuses in the U.S., a Likud minister charged.

A report from The Baltimore Sun claims that Baltimore County school officials acting in the name of political correctness are planning to drop the words “gifted and talented” in favor of a new term, “advanced academics.”

The Jerusalem Post reports: An ancient ballista ball, claimed to be one of those used by Jewish warriors fighting against the Roman Empire during the Bar-Kochba revolt, has been unearthed by high school students in Gush Etzion, south of Jerusalem.

Several members of the Yale College Republicans have resigned and set up a new organisation after the group officially endorsed Donald Trump for president.

Three black students from California have sparked massive controversy after they advertised house share accommodation for “POC only,” or “People of Color,” refusing applications from white students.

Border Patrol agents in Orchard Park, N.Y., arrested a group of illegal aliens who were trespassing at an elementary school. Several of the illegal aliens had been previously deported and had criminal records.

The days of “no pass, no play” are no more. These days, some schools dump “D” grades to allow high school athletes to play sports. One Texas school district says they signed onto this brave new world where “D” is the new “C”, to level the playing field.

A law school that Trump foe Khizr M. Khan has claimed in the past to have graduated from has no record of him ever attending.

The joint effort by both the DNC and the AFT was based on a survey of 2,000 teachers conducted by the leftwing Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which prides itself on tracking extremists and hate groups. The group concluded that “the presidential campaign is having a profoundly negative impact on schoolchildren across the country.”

Baltimore Superintendent Dallas Dance has proposed ending use of the label “Gifted and Talented” even though Maryland state law defines the term specifically and requires students identified as GT to have access to special programming.

TEL AVIV – A teacher at a Catholic high school in Belgium won an award and cash prize for Iran’s Holocaust cartoon contest, receiving praise from her colleagues who said they were proud of her.

Local communist authorities in China’s Guizhou province have announced the termination of welfare and social security benefits for Christians who are caught attending church services.

TEL AVIV – IDF soldiers fighting in combat units will receive full scholarships for their academic studies after their discharge.

A watchdog group at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville uncovered what it called a “disturbing trend” of anti-Semitic behavior on campus, with several students’ social media posts denigrating the Jewish faith and praising Adolf Hitler, The Algemeiner reported.

Up to five gunmen, reportedly dressed as members of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF), kidnapped two professors Sunday night in the Afghan capital of Kabul — one from the United States and the other from Australia.

Twenty children are excluded from school each day after being deemed to have racially abused classmates, a report has found.

A new study suggests that the student debt crisis was caused by college administrative costs growing twice as fast as other college expenses.