Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a lawsuit filed on Wednesday against the Obama Administration over Department of Education’s bathroom and dressing room policies. Texas was joined by thirteen other states in filing the suit.
Your tax dollars hard at work.
The Yale University Halloween email scandal in which two professors who defended freedom of expression were forced to resign has won first place in Harvey Silvergate’s ‘Campus Muzzle Awards.’
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is asking companies that design and print college admission papers to stop inquiring about students’ criminal records.
The number of Texas teachers charged with sexual misconduct continues to escalate even while school is out for summer vacation. June brought more allegations of educators engaging in this disturbing behavior that violates the trust placed in them to protect the state’s school children.
Less than one-third of the top colleges and universities in the United States require history majors to take even a single course in American history.
An illegal immigrant who came to the U.S. as a child is set to become the youngest school teacher in the Dallas Independent School District. The young woman obtained the authorization to work under President Obama’s executive amnesty plan called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
According to TheRebel reporter Faith Goldy, a freedom of information request yielded 2,700 documents concerning the “fiasco” of placing “unassimilated Muslim migrant men” into Fredericton High School in New Brunswick.
This week, California teachers unions defeated a bill that attempted to address the process by which teachers are retained and fired in the state.
Two Democratic lawmakers from San Diego want to make a letter written by a victim of rape at Stanford University required reading as part of California public universities’ assault prevention and consent training programs for incoming students.
A report undertaken by the Anti-Defamation league has shown that incidents of anti-Semitism at American universities nearly doubled in 2015.
The transgender student guidelines adopted in April by the Fort Worth Independent School District violate state law, according to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. He rendered an opinion late Tuesday in response to Lt. Governor Dan Patrick’s inquiry whether the school district’s transgender student guidelines violated the state’s education code by keeping “student information from parents.”
The New York senate has passed a bill which will prohibit universities from providing funding to student groups that “encourage hate speech.” Bill S8017, which was co-sponsored by Senators Jack Martins and Todd Kaminsky, is described as “relating to certain
The finding is the result of a study by The College Fix, and helps explain why conservatives face discrimination on campus.
The director of Cal State University of San Bernardino’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism says conservatives are “passively and actively discriminated against” on college campuses.
“Do you really think I’m a motherf***er?” Steve Wentz, president of United Teachers of Wichita (UTW), describes to the undercover journalists what he asks his student. “Son, go for it and I’ll give you the first shot…I will kick your f***ing ass.”
Following a report at Breitbart along with other conservative media outlets, the University of North Carolina has removed their controversial post on microaggressions from the public eye.
The Texas Hazlewood Act gives veterans, and in certain instances their children and their spouses, up to 150 hours of free tuition. An appellate court has upheld a challenge to the Act’s residency-at-enlistment requirement holding the provision is constitutional.
Microaggressions include “Merry Christmas,” complimenting people on their shoes, or using “husband and wife” instead of “partner and spouse.”
In a recent op-ed, writer Matthew Archbold decries the modern tendency to avoid religious language in public, promising “good thoughts” rather than prayers for people, in a bow to a secular environment where Christianity is seen as “the new secondhand smoke.”
Haitian-born author Dady Chery details the history of Laureate Education, the for-profit university system that enriched Bill and Hillary Clinton, and how it preys on poor applicants in developing nations.
Jordanian school textbooks make no reference to the benefits of opposing terror, according to an Egyptian media report in the wake of a bombing that killed six soldiers near the Syrian border on Tuesday.
A student at SUNY Albany who claimed to be a victim of a racial attack has admitted to fabricating the story — another in a long line of hate crime hoaxes.
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reveals that nearly 60 percent of high school students today have never had sex – an increase of 28 percent since 1991.
Taxpayers filed a lawsuit late Thursday morning against the Houston Independent School District (HISD), the seventh largest in the United States, to stop the politically correct renaming of schools and the unnecessary spending of millions in tax dollars.
Two reports from the Massachusetts-based Pioneer Institute show that teaching character education in schools results not only in academic progress and decreases in behavioral problems, but also greater self-control and self-discipline in students.
The College Republicans at UC Irvine have been suspended for an entire year after administrators discovered their plans to host another event with Milo Yiannopoulos.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is spending $9.7 million on a new federal program that seeks to identify why fathers don’t spend time with their children and how to provide them with fatherhood training to remedy the problem.
A former Texas high school teacher faces one count of sexual assault of a child, a second-degree felony, for allegedly performing sexual acts on a 16-year-old female student.
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives are going to begin investigating incitement to terrorism in the Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) schools using material provided by a Jerusalem based research center, its director told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.
Two more former Texas administrators formally pleaded guilty for their roles in a test cheating scheme. The fraudulent acts took place in the El Paso Independent School District from 2006 to 2013.
Louisiana parent activist and attorney Sara Wood describes former state lawmaker Brett Geymann as a “modern day Sam Adams” and “statesman” who will help steer Congress back to its rightful constitutional authority.
Special snowflake undergraduates at Oxford University are campaigning to have their workload reduced. Some of them have to write as many as three essays a week. And this, apparently, is too much. Cat Jones, of the Oxford University Student Union, told the
The World Bank is looking to Israel for advice on how to improve STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education, and recently completed a mission to the Jewish state to study what policies can be copied.
Chairman and CEO of Wynn Resorts Steve Wynn blasted both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in recent interviews with conservative radio host Bill Bennett.
Americans might ask further: why are people who want to “fundamentally change” America running the country? Indeed, those who have been educated to believe America is hateful will govern accordingly.
Another Texas administrator stands accused of stealing money from a school district. The administrator also faces felony charges for alleged money laundering and the misuse of school property.
Convicted rapist and former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner’s ex-girlfriend has written a letter, which was included in court documents, defending him and painting him in a different light than that which has been presented in national media.
The new curriculum for the Advanced Placement European History test hides the role of Christianity in European history, and also hides Islam’s violent conquests in Europe and its tradition of jihad.
Absolutely everything under the sun that could go wrong with this year’s State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) did. Failures ranged from online testing glitches and vanishing answers, to missing test score results. It added to the growing frustration many feel about standardized testing in Texas public education.
