As battles rage across the country in school systems over sexual orientation policies, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) meeting put in their two cents worth with a late afternoon session on Saturday titled “Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual , and Transgender Issues in Schools: The Changing Landscape in Legal and Practical Terms-Are You Ready?”
College Prep
Public School Bible Battle
Gideon Bible Distribution in Public Schools
Argued Before Federal Appeals Court
Day of Silence Returns
Every year pro-homosexual students around the nation hijack public schools for the day by remaining silent, refusing to participate in class.
LA Board Charters Failure
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.
School Gag Order Lifted
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.
School Boards Descending
Around the country, school boards are increasingly getting the boot, with officials calling instead on big-city mayors to lead struggling school systems.
Arrested Development
While Time magazine recommends putting the Bible back in classrooms, a Florida principal refuses to allow it even near the school.
Federal Court Strikes Down School Policy
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.
Collectively Bargaining Away Education
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.
Georgia Public School Bigotry
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.