Attorney General Loretta Lynch urged Muslim parents to contact both the justice department and the education department if they think their children are being “bullied” in school.
Petrilli praises the “quality of the reading, writing, and math tests in use throughout the country” under Common Core, and their alignment “with college and career readiness,” arguing a “huge improvement” in what he calls the “honesty gap” between what tests say and true college readiness.
The nation’s largest abortion provider Planned Parenthood announced in a tweet Wednesday that it is working with militant LGBT groups to promote sex-related curricula in schools. The groups want all students to get instructions on the lifestyles of “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth.”
During floor speeches, Republican lawmakers claimed the bill “reduces the federal role” in education – even though it extends federal oversight of education to formally include pre-school instead of only grades K-12. They also say the measure would stop the federal government from coercing states to implement the Common Core standards – a point that is hotly debated by conservative activists who say the bill actually cements the Common Core further.
A Breitbart Texas’ border security expert and writer has formed a foundation to raise money for scholarships to students living with multiple sclerosis (MS). The foundation launched on December 1.
Sen. Lamar Alexander’s final draft of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) reauthorization bill is a 1,059-page piece of legislation that House and Senate education committees decided upon after several months of backroom deals and only two days of open “conference.”
An electrical engineering student named Jabari R. Dean has been arrested for allegedly posting the online threats of violence that led to the cancellation of classes at the University of Chicago on Monday.
A University of Illinois at Chicago student has been arrested and will face charges for an online threat to kill at least 16 “white devils” in revenge for the death of Laquan McDonald who was shot 16 times by police.
The compromise between the House-passed Student Success Act and the Senate-passed Every Child Achieves Act of 2015 gets Washington out of the business of running schools. It protects state and local autonomy by prohibiting the Secretary of Education from coercing states into adopting Common Core and by preventing the secretary from imposing requirements on states and school districts through executive fiat.
Two college students in military fatigues with gas masks and replica “assault rifles” were arrested Sunday after motorists spotted them on an overpass near the 101 freeway in Agoura Hills and dialed 911.
The University of Chicago has canceled classes and activities for Monday at its Hyde Park campus due to an FBI warning of an “online threat of gun violence.”
Wisconsin parents quickly united to block a pro-homosexual activist from pitching her pro-transgender claim to their six-year-old kids, despite getting only one school day of warning from local school officials.
University of Missouri assistant professor Youssif Zaghwani Omar was arrested after an altercation at a high school in Columbia, Missouri, where he physically attacked a 14-year-old girl for going to school without wearing a hijab, according to police.
A 12-year-old seventh grade student in Katy, Texas who reported in October that her teacher instructed her class that God is a myth challenged her school board again by demanding an apology and referring to its members as “liars.” Jordan
On Thursday thousands of Chicago residents had their Thanksgiving interrupted by a robocall featuring the voice of Jesse Jackson, Sr. and sponsored by the Chicago Teachers Union urging Chicagoans to join them in disrupting the Windy City’s Black Friday shopping day downtown.
The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) reauthorization bill was approved by a conference committee – by a vote of 39-1 – after just several hours of “conference.” But the bill will not be published in final form for lawmakers and parents to read until November 30 – just two days before it is voted on in the House on December 2. As Indiana parent Indiana parent Erin Tuttle says, “House members will be forced to vote on a bill they haven’t read. The American people expected a new style of leadership under Speaker Ryan, not more of the same.”
Wednesday night on CBS’s “The Late Show,” filmmaker Spike Lee encouraged American female college students to go on a “sex strike” to stop sexual harassment and date rape on collage and university campuses. While discussing his new film “Chi-Raq” Lee
Author, lawyer, and legal commentator Stuart Taylor gently explains one of the most tragic and painful causes of the campus eruptions — the progressives’ self-serving demand for “affirmative action.”
The liberal media lavished 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed, also known as “Clock Kid,” with praise and adoration after he was arrested in Irving, TX, for his alleged homemade clock that he made in school. Media outlets wrote article after article claiming
University students in Massachusetts who were upset by an image of a Confederate flag sticker on another student’s laptop were offered counseling services at Framingham State University.
On Tuesday, Western Washington University (WWU) called off its classes on its main campus in Bellingham, WA, due to media posts that President Bruce Shepard called “hate speech targeted at Western students of color.”
A California-based group called “Concerned African American Parents” has accused a high-performing Pennsylvania school district of racial discrimination in a complaint sent to the U.S. Department of Education.
A white University of Kansas (KU) communications professor is on leave, after students filed discrimination complaints against her because she used the n-word in class to describe an incident that reportedly occurred on the University of Missouri campus.
Schools went on lockdown Monday as police searched for a man suspected of attempting to kill a local police officer on Sunday night in Manchester Township, a northern suburb of York, Pennsylvania.
Starbucks may no longer be a safe space to have a conversation with a friend, not unless you’re prepared to be called out by PC minders who might be eavesdropping nearby.
Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Marco Rubio are the only GOP 2016 candidates to have signed a Florida parent group’s pledge to end federal implementation of the Common Core standards if elected president. Out of 14 candidates who participated in
Dartmouth College is “investigating all reports of violations of College policy, and will enforce appropriate sanctions,” after Black Lives Matter activists insulted and intimidated other students in the college library Nov. 12, according to a Monday email from college President Phil Hanlon.
According to a report by WFMJ, authorities are investigating some pro-Islamic State messages that appeared at Youngstown State University overnight. The messages, which showed up on a big rock on campus, contain messages reading: “France deserves destruction” “YSU supports ISIS”
A Jewish student at the University of California Santa Cruz was pushed to abstain from voting on an anti-Israel resolution seeking divestment from the Jewish state over fears that he was “elected by a Jewish agenda.”
The black student protesters–particularly activist Jonathan Butler–got a ringing endorsement from Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who recorded a video message to them last week in which he cautioned the University’s new black President not to be an “Uncle Tom” and referred to the successful UM student protests as “the epicenter of the movement of students.”
Police are searching for a hoodie-wearing man who tried to kidnap a woman off the street New Orleans, then shot a Tulane medical student who tried to intervene to save her.
The students of San Francisco State University launched a protest and petition to reject the university’s plans to establish a partnership with Coca-Cola.
In the wake of student protests inspired by Black Lives Matter, the University of Missouri’s image is apparently suffering to the extent that the school has hired a lobbyist as state lawmakers will be closely scrutinizing its funding next year.
The U.S. Department of Education (USED) has been pushing, bribing, and otherwise “incentivizing” states to expand their student data systems to track students from preschool through the workforce.
New York State school psychologists say the Common Core standards are associated with increased student anxiety, according to a new report released Friday.
Ben Shapiro’s speech Thursday evening at the University of Missouri was a galvanizing moment for the campus and community that became the national focus of media attention in early November after a group of radical black liberation activists, assisted by leftist faculty members, forced the resignation of the university’s president and chancellor.
on Thursday, the faculty council at Occidental College unanimously approved a resolution indicating their “full support of The Oxy United for Black Liberation students’ actions and the demands for the culture around racism and diversity in the institution to change,” according to the Huffington Post. Students have demanded that Veitch resign, as one of their 14 demands.
Per Fox News, parents in Utah complained after their ninth-grade children were assigned to create ISIS propaganda as a school project. Fourteen-year-old Mikalia got the assignment and went online to search “how to recruit for ISIS.” Her mother, Annie Langston,
Local law enforcement arrested a female teenager for allegedly threatening her North Texas high school with a school shooting over Twitter.
Professional protesters Johnetta Elzie and Deray McKesson have put together a website, demands.org, listing demands made by various student protest groups at campuses across the country (as well as some in Canada). The website currently contains demands or links to lists from 37 schools.
