College Prep

Every year pro-homosexual students around the nation hijack public schools for the day by remaining silent, refusing to participate in class.

On March 29, the Los Angeles school board voted to oppose expansion of a diverse and improving charter-school consortium, and to extend the life of a failing charter.

Three years ago during the homosexual Day of Silence, a Christian high school student in Poway, Chase Harper, decided to wear a t-shirt stating: “I will not accept what God has condemned” and “Homosexuality is shameful. Romans 1:27.” When Harper refused school administrators’ demands to remove his t-shirt, he was suspended from school.

Around the country, school boards are increasingly getting the boot, with officials calling instead on big-city mayors to lead struggling school systems.

While Time magazine recommends putting the Bible back in classrooms, a Florida principal refuses to allow it even near the school.

On Friday a federal district court in Syracuse, New York issued an opinion finding that school officials had violated a fourth grader’s free speech rights by denying her request to distribute her Christian testimony during noninstructional time.

Getting Down to Facts does deal with the key question of teacher quality. The massive report, released by Stanford researchers on March 14-15, the most thorough to date on California education, addresses two significant factors that contribute to the difficulty in developing a highly qualified workforce in California’s schools.

On Ash Wednesday, February 21, a Catholic female
student at White County High School in Cleveland, Georgia had her
ashes wiped off her forehead by a substitute teacher in her Honors
Trigonometry class.

The Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development found that putting a child in day care for a year or more increases the chances that the child will become disruptive in class–a trend that persists through the sixth grade.

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

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.

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.