SocietyCommentary
Markets and Miracles
In this season of giving, I’ll donate to The Doe Fund, a charity that helps drug abusers and ex-cons find purpose in life through work…. Read More
EducationNews
With Decree to Bus Drivers, School District Puts the ‘Scrooge’ in Christmas Spirit
A local school district in Pennsylvania acted to forbid school bus drivers from putting up Christmas decorations. On Friday, just over a week before Christmas,… Read More
EducationCommentary
New Education Model Charts Course for ‘Success Sequence’ in New Year
Just in time for Christmas, new data finds good news on education: Average graduation rates nationwide are up two percentage points. Before celebrating, though, research… Read More
EducationCommentary
Teacher Shortage? For Decades, Public Schools Have Enjoyed Hiring Sprees
Pop quiz time. “Teacher shortages have gotten worse.” True or false? False. And yet, that sentence was part of a recent Washington Post headline. And it’s… Read More
EducationAnalysis
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: Examining 7 Accusations of Harassment Against Moms for Liberty
Even before the Southern Poverty Law Center, the discredited far-left smear factory, put the parental rights group Moms for Liberty on its “hate map” alongside… Read More
EducationCommentary
A Third Try in Texas for School Choice
SAN ANTONIO—Gov. Greg Abbott has called a third special legislative session in an attempt to push through three priorities that previous sessions have defeated, surprisingly… Read More
EducationNews
EXCLUSIVE: High School’s ‘Oppression and Privilege’ Slideshow Links to Teen Sex Ed Website
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Tenth-graders at a Missouri high school last week had to watch a slideshow on “oppression and privilege” that appears to violate… Read More
EducationNews
BREAKING: Watchdog Says Texas Schools ‘Some of Worst in Country’ in Teaching Critical Race Theory
Public schools in Texas continue to teach racially discriminatory content to children in violation of state law and without parents knowing, Accuracy in Media President… Read More
EducationNews
Wisconsin Court Sides With Parental Rights Over School District’s Gender Transition Policy
A school district’s policy “to enable and affirm a minor student’s transition to a different gender identity at school without parental consent violates parents’ constitutional… Read More
EducationNews
EXCLUSIVE: California AG Defies Court Order on Transgender Parental Notification, Lawyers Say
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—California Attorney General Rob Bonta has defied a court order by directing school districts to adopt policies that allow them to… Read More
EducationCommentary
Virginia Parents Sue After School Board Fails to Adopt Model Transgender Policies
Two parents filed a lawsuit against the Virginia Beach School Board this week for voting down proposed policies that pertain to keeping parents informed about… Read More
EducationNews
Virginia Tech DEI Director’s Effort to Oppose Pro-Youngkin School Board Candidates May Have Crossed a Line
A diversity, equity, and inclusion officer at a leading university in southwestern Virginia may have violated her school’s policy by using work email to forward… Read More
EducationCommentary
Parents’ Nightmare Shows It Matters How States Implement School Choice
Editor’s note: This article has been corrected to reflect that we were not able to reach Christine Accurso prior to publication. (We reached out to… Read More
EducationCommentary
Democrats Are Shoving a Religion Down Students’ Throats and Seeking to Keep Parents in the Dark
This week, the top law enforcement officer in America’s most populous state took a school district to court for the alleged crime of notifying parents… Read More
EducationNews
School District Speaks Out After Pro-Trans AG Sues to Block Parental Notification Policy
School districts in the Sacramento area of California are considering policies requiring schools to notify parents if their children claim to identify as transgender, despite… Read More
EducationAnalysis
Colorado School Kicks Out Student for Wearing ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ Flag Patch
A Colorado school has kicked a 12-year-old student off campus for refusing to remove a patch on his backpack depicting the nation’s historical “Don’t Tread… Read More
EducationCommentary
The Economic Benefits of School Choice
It’s back to school this week for Florida students and many others across the country. The first days and weeks of a new school year… Read More
EducationCommentary
No Time to Let Up on School Choice and Education Reform
In 1988, as an Arizona State Senate candidate, I explained to a PTA group my proposal to allow students to cross K-12 school attendance boundary… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The Culture War Moves to a New Phase
Left-wing nutballs have had the upper hand in America’s culture wars for a long time. They are hyperaggressive and focused on pushing America in a… Read More
EducationNews
Far-Left Group Puts Moms for Liberty on Map With KKK Chapters
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which brands mainstream conservative and Christian organizations as “hate groups,” placing them on a map with chapters of the Ku… Read More
EducationCommentary
Biden’s Education Department Tells Nation’s Schools to Go Back to Race-Based Discipline
The school year is over, but a new race-based missive from Washington will loom over teachers and students all summer. Just before Memorial Day, federal… Read More
EducationCommentary
Parents Get Back in Charge of Their Children’s Education
Parents in the pandemic era have asserted themselves with new vigor for the sake of their children. Parents no longer presume that the zoned public… Read More
EducationNews
School Allows Reading of LGBT Book to Second Graders Despite State Law Requiring Parental Consent
A Missouri elementary school allowed a parent to read the transgender-promoting children’s book “I Am Jazz” to a second-grade class without first informing other parents,… Read More
EducationCommentary
New Book Pulls Back Curtain on Public Schools’ ‘Mediocrity’ Sending Parents, Students to Exits
Connor Boyack and Corey DeAngelis’ new book, “Mediocrity: 40 Ways Government Schools Are Failing Today’s Students,” provides a concise explanation for why Americans have begun… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Critical Race Theorists Admit Their Revolution Is Failing
It was a bit cognitively dissonant last month when some of the best-known merchants of critical race theory began whining that their campaign to transform… Read More
EducationNews
Missouri School District to Fight Bias, Racism in Math Curriculum
A Missouri school district plans to include the personal pronouns “they/them” in math problems and hire certified teachers as “math interventionists” to fight racism and gender… Read More
EducationCommentary
Maryland Governor Tries to End School Choice for Low-income Families
Families and students in Maryland can breathe a sigh of relief after lawmakers agreed to provide $9 million in funding for the state’s school choice… Read More
EducationNews
‘Deeply Perverse’: California School Board ‘Turns Education on its Head’ in Transgender Vote; Faces Lawsuit
Another public school system has voted to hide mental health information about students from their parents. This time, however, parents are fighting back. The Center… Read More
PoliticsNews
House Seeks Testimony From Teachers Union Chief Weingarten on School Closures During COVID-19
A House investigative panel wants to hear from Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, about her role in keeping schools closed during… Read More
EducationNews
EXCLUSIVE: Virginia School District Boots 14 Sexually Explicit Books to County Libraries
A Virginia school district’s new superintendent decided Wednesday to remove 14 sexually explicit books from school libraries and donate them to the county government’s public… Read More
