Jeb Bush said during the New Hampshire GOP debate the United States should “get back to being a Tenth Amendment country,” one that “respects the states to be able to make more decisions,” including in the area of education.
The University of Iowa (UI) has dedicated two rooms of the Iowa Memorial Union as a prayer space for its growing Muslim student population, which is required to pray five times per day.
Parent activists who have been fighting the Common Core state standards have joined together to form a national group whose message is “Stop Fed Ed.”
Sen. Marco Rubio asked the U.S. Education Department to “demonstrate leniency” toward a for-profit college network that admitted to falsifying its job placement rates and yet received millions of dollars in federal financial aid while under both state and federal investigations.
Families in Germany are switching their children’s schools fearing that large amounts of migrants will ruin their child’s chance at a good education. According to a detailed report in Sueddeutsche, more and more German families are switching their child’s schooling
On Wednesday, a public hearing at the State Capitol considered a proposal for free education for all community college students–a main component of “Democratic Socialist” presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)’s campaign.
A Florida daycare director was arrested for child abuse after video of her mistreating a four-year-old was given to police, per a report by KFOR. The video was shot by one of the daycare employees who was not comfortable with the director’s
The parents of a high schooler in Charles County, Maryland have filed suit against the school district for “promoting Islam” by implementing a pro-Muslim lesson plan in a World History class.
Some non-Muslim women in the United States and other countries voluntarily donned the “hijab” on Monday to show “solidarity” with Muslim women.
Utah Senator Todd Weiler has introduced legislation that would designate pornography as a public health hazard leading to a broad spectrum of “individual and public health impacts and societal harms.” The resolution proposes the need for education, prevention, research, and
Flags flew at half-staff at a North Texas high school on Mon., Feb. 1, in memory of two teenaged students who allegedly committed suicide within hours of each other over the weekend, shocking an entire community. Police investigate for any possible links between the two incidents.
President Obama said he would be “pulling together governors, mayors, business leaders, and tech entrepreneurs to join the growing bipartisan movement” around K-12 computer science Saturday’s Weekly Address. Transcript as Follows: “Hi everybody. As I said in my State of
The mystery surrounding last week’s three-prisoner jailbreak from a maximum-security prison in in Orange County has begun to unravel with the arrest of Nooshafarin Ravaghi, a Santa Ana English as a second language (ESL) teacher.
Karl Marx’s The Communist Manifesto is ranked among the top three most frequently assigned texts at universities and colleges, and Marx is the most assigned economist in college courses.
Fourteen students at St. Ignatius College Preparatory in San Francisco who participated in a “wigga” party have been suspended.
During a town hall event Wednesday in Oskaloosa, Iowa, GOP 2016 contender Carly Fiorina said Republicans have been involved in creating education programs such as Common Core, No Child Left Behind, and Race to the Top that, ultimately, amount to “crony capitalism.”
School choice advocates expect thousands of Texas families, educators, and other supporters to rally in Austin at the south Capitol steps on Friday, Jan. 29, at 11 a.m. for 2016’s National School Choice Week.
Georgia state representatives Rick Jasperse (R-Jasper) and Mandi Ballinger (R-Canton) have introduced legislation that will allow concealed carry permit holders to carry guns on college campuses for self-defense.
A former Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) executive reveals in a Project Veritas undercover investigation how textbook publishing giant Pearson Education won the $1.3 billion contract to put Common Core-curriculum-loaded iPads into the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), despite the fact that other publishers outpaced Pearson in their bids for the contract.
Austrian authorities are investigating after children were sent home from a kindergarten with homework to learn the words to a Christian hymn, which had the word ‘God’ replaced with ‘Allah’. The Austrian parent of one child at the Muslim majority
2016 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump says in a new video released on Facebook that Common Core is a “disaster,” and that he will make education a priority if he is elected president.
Though Marco Rubio has consistently opposed the Common Core standards initiative and its federal intrusion into an area reserved for the states by the Constitution, GOP rival Jeb Bush observed recently that Rubio once supported Race to the Top, the vehicle used by the Obama administration to incentivize states to adopt the education reform.
On January 25, South Carolina state representative Phillip Lowe (R-Florence) introduced legislation allowing teachers with concealed carry permits to take a special training course then carry a pistol for the defense of themselves and their students.
A school teacher for the Presido, Texas, Independent School District has been arrested and charged with allegedly hiding illegal aliens in her home and keeping them as servants.
A textbook company sales employee, exposed in a Project Veritas undercover video revealing an anti-American agenda set forth in the Common Core initiative, sent Breitbart News a Cease and Desist letter, claiming she was terminated from her job as a result of the investigation that was published by Breitbart News.
Peter Salama, regional director of UNICEF in the Middle East, is reporting Syrian children continue to be forced to fight in the nation’s civil war, dying in classrooms.
Late last week, and just in time for School Choice Week, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced a universal education savings account (ESA) bill for all of the District of Columbia’s children. The program allows parents, regardless of income or background, to take control of the dollars the District spends on their children’s educations and create customized educational plans to suit the needs and strengths of the individual student.
The federal government’s “Common Core State Standards” education overhaul has provoked a huge wave of parental activism in children’s education like no other U.S. education policy issue has in the last half-century. It is a major issue in the 2016
A court in Egypt has allowed Cairo University to ban female professors from wearing the Islamic niqab in the classrooms.
The New Trier Township High School administration appears to be misleading local parents intentionally about the mandatory day of “racial identity” seminars held on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Highly contagious airborne diseases–tuberculosis (TB) and measles–surfaced in three Texas public school districts located in different parts of the state, although officials have not identified the origins of these cases.
Muslims and Christians do not worship the same God, celebrated evangelist Franklin Graham said in response to the controversial claim by a faculty member at Wheaton College in Illinois.
The author of a new Austrian government report on radicalisation in schools has gone on record suggesting the government “cooperates with Salafist or Islamist organisations”, and the funding by foreign governments of projects in Europe is akin to colonisation. Commissioned by
Instead of praise, a Central Texas school district suspended a 15-year-old boy when he rushed a classmate, who was in the throes of an asthma attack, to the school nurse’s office in yet another incident of zero tolerance policies overriding common sense. This follows last week’s double suspensions for two North Texas students, which also involved an asthma attack.
In a recently released press statement, Oberlin College President Marvin Krislov said he has made no plans to respond to the 14 pages of demands submitted to his office by a group of black students.
A 15-year-old student at Ansonia High School in Connecticut allegedly said “ISIS” (Islamic State/ISIL) instead of “United States” when reciting the Pledge of Allegiance
In a move certain to infuriate the left, Breitbart Tech Editor Milo Yiannopoulos has created the Yiannopoulos Privilege Grant, “a scholarship exclusively available to white men who wish to pursue their post-secondary education on equal footing with their female, queer and ethnic minority classmates.”
At least one thousand students skipped New Trier High School’s mandatory day of “racial identity” classes on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
A former marketing executive for textbook publishing giant Pearson Education reveals the anti-American agenda behind Common Core and the Advanced Placement U.S. History framework in the third video of a series produced by Project Veritas and focused on the corporate cronyism behind the education reform known as Common Core.
Ron Unz, Silicon Valley’s libertarian billionaire businessman, wants to abolish tuition at Harvard, and so he’s created a five-member slate of non-partisan reform candidates for Harvard’s upcoming governance elections.
