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Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland (D) announced that he wants to end state funding for abstinence education, a move that would eliminate about a half million dollars’ worth of positive programs.

A new study features a novel twist on an ongoing controversy; A head-to-head comparison of black Americans and black immigrants indicates that while affirmative action may not do much good for people of color, a private education does.

The movement to bring the world’s best-selling book back into the classroom is gaining ground across the U.S.

William Rearick, Schools Superintendent of the Tiverton
Public Schools in Rhode Island, has banned the Easter Bunny from
appearing at a fundraising event tomorrow at the Tiverton Middle
School.

High school students at Alameda High School and Encinal High School will soon have easier access to condoms. The Alameda Board of Education voted 5-0 earlier this week to allow condom distribution on the campuses of these schools.

In a shocking and brazen act of governmental abuse of parental rights, Deerfield High School (DHS) in Deerfield, Illinois, has required fourteen-year-old freshmen to attend a “Straight Gay Alliance Network” (GSA) panel discussion led by “gay” and “lesbian” upperclassmen during a “freshman advisory” class which secretively featured inappropriate discussions of a sexual nature in promotion of high-risk homosexual behaviors.

“This was a slow motion, legal lynching… these boys were unprotected,” author Christina Hoff Sommers said at a panel discussion at the Independent Women’s Forum (INF) in Washington D.C. last week.

Claiming that a flyer posted by a student group is “insulting” and “offensive,” BSU
President Bob Kustra threatened action against the BSU College Republicans (BSUCR) through the
student judicial process, and may have terminated the Assistant Director of Student Activities who
approved the flyer for posting on campus.

So what do the labor unions and their representatives say when presented with questions and conflicting facts?

News flash: a tenured professor at a state university rates Ronald Reagan as one of the five greatest presidents of all time.

Last week the capital was abuzz over Getting Down to Facts, the massive series of privately-funded education reports coordinated through Stanford University. The responses to these reports missed some key realities.

Not surprisingly the first rumored finding is that California schools are being short-changed to the tune of $1 trillion. That amounts to an additional $160,000 in per-pupil funding, which already exceeds $11,600.