College Prep

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.

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.

International Baccalaureate schools, and there are hundreds in the United States, can write their own curriculum so long as the beliefs and values of the curriculum agree with the beliefs and values of the UN.

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.

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.

Rebekah Rice, a student at Santa Rosa’s Maria Carillo High School, was herself being harassed by other students because of her religious beliefs, when she was sent to the principal’s office for using the phrase “that’s so gay” in response to her tormentors.

Liberty Union High School district in Contra Costa [California] this week changed its policy banning parent-paid religious ads from its yearbook. The change was instigated after the school district received a letter from the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI), explaining that the policy is a violation of free speech rights.

A new report from the National Charter School Research Project finds that urban public charter schools appear to be safer and experience fewer discipline problems than their traditional public school counterparts.

When California public schools get evaluated by someone other than compliant public officials, they usually don’t fare too well.

Schools across the country are falling all over each other to ban childhood games that might cause bumps and bruises to the current generation of kids

Twelve high school students at Heritage High School in Vancouver, Washington were suspended for ten days for gathering to pray before school

Since textbook publishers tailor every title for the California sales that they cannot live without, the latest effort by the Golden State to flavor historical knowledge with sensitivity training may go national.